Elissa LandiFilmography

La Novia De Primavera

Actors: Maria Duval, Roberto Airaldi

Synopsis: La Novia de Primavera (Spring Bride) was based on the popular Argentine radio serial of the same name. Maria Duval stars as the title character -- or at least she poses as that character. To impress friends and family, Duval pretends to be the fiancee of best-selling author Roberto Airaldi. When Read More

The Thirteenth Chair

Actors: Dame May Whitty, Madge Evans, Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck

Synopsis: The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates the proceedings as Mme. La Grange, a phony mystic who is on hand when a man is killed during one of her seances. The killing takes place in the home of a provincial British Read More

The Amateur Gentleman

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elissa Landi, Gordon Harker, Frank Pettingell, Basil Sydney, Hugh Williams

Synopsis: The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an innkeeper's son. To prove his dad innocent of a crime, Barnaby poses as a famous bare-knuckle gentleman prizefighter. In this guise he gains access to the Royal court, and in Read More

Mad Holiday

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, ZaSu Pitts, Ted Healy, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of starring in murder mysteries, Trent discovers he can't escape typecasting even on an ocean voyage: one of the passengers is murdered in our hero's cabin. The killing is tied Read More

After the Thin Man

Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: This second of MGM's Thin Man films reteams William Powell and Myrna Loy as, respectively, bibulous private detective Nick Charles and his socialite wife Nora. The Charleses are sucked into another murder case via Nick's lovely cousin Elissa Landi, whose husband Alan Marshall has vanished. Hubby Read More

Without Regret

Synopsis: In this melodramatic adventure, a young woman is abducted by Chinese bandits. One of them is a free-lance pilot in need of quick money. He immediately falls for the hostage and jilts his own girl friend. He begins protecting the victim from her lust-filled captors. The two end up married. Years Read More

Enter Madame

Actors: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman, Sharon Lynne, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: Elissa Landi plays an opera star (she's dubbed by Nina Koshetz) who marries arrogant millionaire Cary Grant (dubbed by himself). Grant's dreams of connubial bliss are shattered when he's forced to trail along while Landi tours the world with a huge entourage; he's also not happy with his wife's Read More

Koenigsmark

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Elissa Landi, Jean Lodge, Marcelle Rogez

Synopsis: Koenigsmark was a French vehicle for Austro-Italian actress Elissa Landi, who'd just spent several years in Hollywood. Adapted from a novel by Pierre Benoit, the story, set in pre-WW I Austria, revolves around Princess Aurora (Elissa Landi), the wife of Grand Duke Frederick (American actor John Lodge Read More

Man of Two Worlds

Actors: Francis Lederer, Elissa Landi, Henry Stephenson, John Farrell MacDonald, Walter Byron

Synopsis: Czech leading man Francis Lederer made his Hollywood film debut in the appropriately titled Man of Two Worlds. Based on the novel by Ainsworth Morgan, the film casts Lederar as Algo, a naïve Eskimo hunter introduced to civilization by avuncular English sportsman Sir Basil (Henry Stephenson). Read More

The Count of Monte Cristo

Actors: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Few famous novels have been filmed as often as Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo--and few versions are as enjoyable as this 1934 adaptation starring Robert Donat. Donat plays Edmond Dantes, wrongly accused of a plot against the post-Napoleonic French government. Condemned to a prison Read More

Sisters under the Skin

Actors: Elissa Landi, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Doris Lloyd, Clara Blandick

Synopsis: The Sisters Under the Skin in this Columbia "continental" romantic seriocomedy are middle-aged Elinor Yates (Doris Lloyd) and vixenish actress Blossom Bailey (Elissa Landi). Fancying himself to be in his second childhood, Elinor's husband John Hunter Yates (Frank Morgan) seeks out a younger Read More

The Great Flirtation

Actors: Elissa Landi, Adolphe Menjou, David Manners, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and his actress wife who has quietly endured his constant domination for years, move from Budapest to New York where they lead an impoverished life until their luck changes and they are given the leads Read More

By Candlelight

Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier, Lawrence Grant

Synopsis: After directing three of Universal's finest horror films, James Whale shifted gears with the elegant romantic comedy By Candlelight. Though quite miscast, Paul Lukas successfully conveys the role of Josef, ultra-dutiful valet to the libidinous Count Von Bommer (Nils Asther). Falling in love with Read More

The Masquerader

Actors: Ronald Colman, Elissa Landi, Julie Compton, Halliwell Hobbes, David Torrence

Synopsis: In an interesting precursor to his later vehicle The Prisoner of Zenda, Ronald Colman essays a dual role in Goldwyn's The Masquerader. Colman is cast as Member of Parliament Sir John Chilcote and his identical cousin, a newspaper journalist also named John. A mean-spirited alcoholic and drug Read More

I Loved You Wednesday

Actors: Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi, Victor Jory, Miriam Jordan, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: A two sided romantic triangle features Warner Baxter and Victor Jory in love with Elissa Landi and Landi and Jory's wife Miriam Jordan in love with Jory. The love of Baxter wins Landi in the end in this romantic comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Warrior's Husband

Actors: Elissa Landi, Marjorie Rambeau, Ernest Truex, David Manners, Helen Ware

Synopsis: In this racy (for 1933) satire set in 800 BC, an overbearing band of Amazon women rule their men with an iron fist. They live in the land of Pontus. Their buxom queen is married. Like all Pontus men, her spouse is an utter panty-waist in the face of his women. Still things are going well in the Read More

The Sign of the Cross

Actors: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith

Synopsis: Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box office hit after the close of the silent era. Fredric March stars as Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus, a noble military leader of the year 64 A.D. Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) Read More

The Woman in Room 13

Actors: Elissa Landi, Ralph Bellamy, Neil Hamilton, Myrna Loy, Gilbert Roland

Synopsis: Beautiful composer Laura Ramsey (Elissa Landi) is the principal suspect when her lover, philandering singer Victor Legrand (Gilbert Roland), is found murdered in his apartment. Having "bugged" Legrand's room with Dictaphone equipment, detective John Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), who happens to be Laura's Read More

Passport to Hell

Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, Donald Crisp

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a woman is blamed for another's suicide and ends up deported to Germany. Just as WW I erupts she marries a German commandant's son to keep from being sent to an alien prison camp. While her husband sells classified information to the British in order to pay her way back to Read More

Devil's Lottery

Actors: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Alexander Kirkland, Paul Cavanagh, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: The Calcutta Sweepstakes is the unifying factor of The Devil's Lottery. Among the winners of the sweepstakes are Evelyn (Elissa Landi), the mistress of suave cardsharp Major Hugo Beresford (Paul Cavanaugh), and roughneck ex-boxer Lem Meech (Victor McLaglen), whose mother (Beryl Mercer) insists Read More

Always Goodbye

Actors: Elissa Landi, Paul Cavanagh, John Garrick, Frederick Kerr

Synopsis: Always Goodbye was credited to two directors: Kenneth MacKenna told the actors where to move and when to speak, while William Cameron Menzies concerned himself with the overall production design. Elissa Landi plays Lila, who has been jilted by practically every man she has ever met. Middle-aged Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: Elissa Landi, Charles Farrell, Humphrey Bogart, Myrna Loy, Donald Dillaway

Synopsis: This melodrama tells the tale of young American pilots who felt strongly about WWI before the US intervened. These men decided to do their part by working with the Royal Air Force. The German forces are using observation balloons to gather information about allied activities. Several American Read More

The Yellow Ticket

Actors: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron, Sarah Padden

Synopsis: Based upon a much-filmed play by Michael Morton (which may in turn have been based upon a story by Frank Harris, The Yellow Ticket is also an indirect descendant of the opera La Tosca. In pre-Revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant girl named Marya Kalish (played by Elissa Landi) has reason to Read More

The Parisian

Actors: Roger Treville, Adolphe Menjou, Elissa Landi

Synopsis: The Parisian is the English-language version of the 1930 Adolphe Menjou vehicle Mon Pere de Gosse. Menjou stars as Gerome, a rakish boulevardier who refuses to settle down and take any responsibilities. As such, he is an embarrassment to his hard-working, business-executive son Gerard (Roger Treville Read More

Wicked

Actors: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Theodore Von Eltz, Una Merkel, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Wicked stars Elissa Landi as Margot Rande, a basically decent woman led down the path to perdition by her bank-robber husband Tony (Theodore Von Eltz). When Tony is cornered by the police, Margot tries to protect him, shooting a policeman in the process. Sentenced to a 20-year prison term, the Read More

Children of Chance

Actors: Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, John Stuart, Dorothy Minto, John Longden, Gus McNaughton

Synopsis: Innocent Binnie (Elissa Landi) happens to be the spitting image of Lia Monta (also Elissa Landi), a less-than-innocent famous actress. When Lia skeedaddles to Berlin with a cache of stolen jewels, Binnie takes her look-alike's place on stage. She falls in love with Lia's sweetheart Gordon (John Stuart Read More

The Price of Things

Actors: Elissa Landi, Stewart Rome, Mona Goya

Synopsis: It says here that Elinor Glyn, the incredibly pretentious author of such bodice-rippers as Three Weeks, was the director of The Price of Things, but we suspect that Madame Glyn (as she preferred to be billed) had a little uncredited assistance. Walter and Alfred Tennyson play a pair of identical Read More

Knowing Men

Actors: Elissa Landi, Jeanne de Casalis, Helen Haye, C.M. Hallard, Carl Brisson

Synopsis: Romance novelist and self-styled moral arbiter Elinor Glyn was credited for both the screenplay and direction of the bodice-ripping Knowing Men. A graduate of convent school, wealthy Korah (Elissa Landi) has been promised in marriage to wealthier George Vere (Carl Brisson), whom she's never met. Read More

The Inseparables

Synopsis: When a smuggler rescues a gypsy girl, Elissa Landi, from a storm he falls in love with her. Unfortunately for him, she is in love with her injured friend. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Betrayal

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the Emil Jannings vehicle of the same title and vintage, the British Betrayal was adapted from The Marquis of Bolibar, a novel by Leo Peretz. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the story takes place in a Spanish village, presently occupied by the French army. A patriotic Read More

Bolibar

Actors: Jerrold Robertshaw, Hubert Carter, Elissa Landi

Synopsis: Leo Pertuz' novel The Marquise of Bolibar was the starting point for this British silent film. The story is set during the 1808 military contretemps between England and Spain. Elissa Landi plays the daughter of an artist who leads a double life as a Spanish espionage agent. Inadvertently, Landi Read More

Underground

Actors: Elissa Landi, Brian Aherne, Norah Baring, Cyril McLaglen

Synopsis: Anthony Asquith's second film, Underground is a silent film that tells the triangular story of a young shop girl named Nell (Elissa Landi) and the two men who find themselves in love with her. One of these is Bill (Brian Aherne), a porter for London's underground; the other is Bert (Cyril Read More

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London

Actors: Dorothy Gish

Synopsis: One of several artistic collaborations between American actress Dorothy Gish and British producer-director Herbert Wilcox, London is set in guess which English metropolis. Slum girl Mavis Hogan (Gish) bears an astonishing resemblance to the deceased daughter of wealthy dowager Lady Arbourfield (Daisy Campbell Read More