Comments on She Blogged By Night: Elsa Lanchester

mark, I never knew that about Karloff! That's ...

2010-02-09T02:17:43.004-06:00

mark, I never knew that about Karloff! That's fabulous.

In the Seventies, a friend of mine had some very o...

2010-02-07T04:41:44.824-06:00

In the Seventies, a friend of mine had some very old records of Elsa Lanchester singing music hall songs. They were wonderful. By the way: some trivia: Boris Karloff's great-aunt was Anna Leonowens, the central character in "The King and I".

I love her in Witness for the Prosecution!

2010-02-04T23:49:33.384-06:00

I love her in Witness for the Prosecution!

She will always be Katie Nanna from Mary Poppins t...

2010-02-04T11:20:21.689-06:00

She will always be Katie Nanna from Mary Poppins to me.

I wouldn't mind the remakes, if they were any ...

2010-02-04T03:50:25.144-06:00

I wouldn't mind the remakes, if they were any good. But we get so many bad remakes. And poorly thought-out remakes, where the only things added to the original are unnecessary CGI, unnecessary additional violence, and inflated running times.

I don't know, man, someone remade "The Cr...

2010-02-04T02:42:11.310-06:00

I don't know, man, someone remade "The Crazies." NOTHING is sacred anymore.

"The iconic role of The Bride was physica...

2010-02-04T02:24:29.919-06:00
"The iconic role of The Bride was physically demanding for Elsa. The severe wire-supported hairstyle, stilts, pulled-back eyes, and miles of wrapping took a toll on her health."

It was certainly worth it. She looked amazing, and it's the role she'll always be remembered for. There was some talk recently that some fool was planning a remake of Bride of Frankenstein. One can only hope that no-one would be silly enough to put up the money for it.