Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelly was a babe
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I could not have said it any better myself! She's just ravishing!!! Hubba, hubba!!! But personally, I prefer her in the role of The Bride... Never mind the sutures under her chin... I'm just so enamored with that crazy hairdo of hers! You gotta dig a woman who has style!
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Love the hair, but that SMILE of hers in the beginning--Mmmmmmmm.
I've seen Elsa Lancaster act in many Disney films like Mary Poppins, Blackbeard's Ghost, & Rascal. Of course, this was when she was in her twilight years. But never in my entire imnagination, after seeing her in this movie, did I realize how beautiful she was... Elsa Lancaster, in my mind, always portrayed the portly, proper, prim & prudish elderly English woman (sometimes bordering on the eccentric). But after seeing her as Mary Shelley, the woman could've been a super-model, or a glamour girl with those expressive large eyes of hers, porcelain complexion & shining smile. As the Bride, she kinda looks like Debi Mazar. Either way, I'm glad this picture managed to capture the elfin beauty she possessed in her younger days... Can't imagine what she saw in Charles Laughton...
shareYes--I've felt the same way for years--ever since first seeing the movie almost 50 years ago. I think you've said it perfectly.
Pierce
Thanks dude... By the way, if she were alive today and in her prime (as was in Bride of Frankenstein) - just a "what if scenario" here, pure speculation & imagination - do you think she might bag the roles like those Keira Knightley has? Elsa Lancaster as Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Carribean series or the lead in Pride & Prejudice? Who knows? :)
shareCan't imagine what she saw in Charles Laughton...I think it was a convience thing, she married Laughton knowing he was gay. share
You guys are seriously in need of a date if you are getting turned on by a monster!
Alan F
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Read the subject, no one is talking about the monster character. Although, as far as monsters go, she wasn't all that bad....
shareJust a note ** In her biography she stated she did not know Charles Laughton was gay until after she married him. It devistated her but she loved him -- and stuck with him as long as she could. Very sad.
But yes, in her early years she was a beauty!
Is that so...? I guess at that time, divorce was a shame a person & society in general can't or won't tolerate. The stigma of it would have been too much. But hey! Chicks nowadays (and ever since the beginning of time) always flock around gay guys - kinda like girls gathering around each other to talk "girl-talk" and such.
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You know, she wasn't even that bad as the monster. On the Legacy DVD, in the documentary about the movie, there's a picture of her out of character (i.e. not as Mary Shelley or the Bride, just as little ol' Elsa)as she actually appeared around this time. Hottie!
shareFrom everything I have read they had a fairly understanding open marriage....By the way in her early days she made a living as a professional corrospondent....a women who would be in hotel rooms with married men who wanted divorces without incriminating the women they were actually having relationships with...usually it involved being conspicuously in bed with the guy when room service showed up with breakfast
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Yep. In her prime Elsa Lanchester was a MAJOR babe. Especially gorgeous as Mary Shelley. Two things sexy about her were her large beautiful eyes and smile. Another thing sexy about her was her british accent in BOF. She did however, scare the crap out of me as the Bride when at the end of the movie when the camera showed Elsa doing the infamous hissing sound before the monster blew up the lab. When I saw BOF on channel 13 years ago, I used to close my eyes during certain scenes and THAT scene was 1 of them. Even the Franz Waxman score is chilling to hear considering that I recently ordered it on amazon.com.
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Ive seen many Elsa movies and ive never seen her look so pretty, she reminds me of Rose McGowan ......
shareRose McGowan? Yeah...
If only the Bride had a machine gun for leg. Imagine the Monster's face expression. Scared $hitless when she would hiss and blast loads of ammo at his green a$s.
That would be the real reason why the castle collapsed.
HA HA HA!
If any studio executives read this, please put that in the remake.
To the fans: Would you be offended over the blasphemy, of just laugh louder than you ever did?
Stop thinking about it and enjoy the movie :)
I agree.I have always been a sucker for a woman with a dimple on her chin. I think that is sexy as hell!
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For such an old film the women in this film are very sexy! That dress Valerie Hobson wears near the beginning of the film leaves little to the imagination, it really clings to her!
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I had the same thought -- I love those filmy things that you can *almost* but not quite see through . . .
(I see you're a fan of Bubba Ho-tep.)
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