TBH on Dick Cavett everybody was like that. What a time and what a show.

I agree. She’s fascinating on so many levels.

but did she accept Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and savior before she died? that is the question for all eternity.

Elsa Lanchester was an incredible chanteuse. The stories she would tell and funny British songs she sang were fabulous. If I could travel back in time, I'd go see her perform.

She let herself gain too much weight to be considered beautiful...but she sure was charismatic. I mean, this woman had two Academy Award nominations, and won a golden Globe...she was a wonderful talent.

No....she was certainly not honest...she was skillfully hiding the aberrant nature of her marriage to Charles Laughton...I will say though...she was truly beautiful, as a younger woman...even when she played a female "monster" she exuded sensuality. Why she did not receive more leading lady roles in Hollywood is a mystery to me...Sadly, she wound up bed-ridden for the last few years of her life, after suffering a stroke...She died in that home for Actors that is located in Hollywood...she was, however, worth nearly a million dollars at that time.

Thanks to tv....no one has a unique personality or speech anymore

It's an educated English accent. No more, no less. Listen to the BBC.

That film was directed by KAREL REISZ, not Ken Russell.

Yeah well what about 2022……3 words: Ida Celestia Pond

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SHE certainly has , or rather had, a dellightful speaking voice. if only people spoke like that today, whether in england , america or anywhere else. god, education has become dumbed down, has it not? even though elsa left school at 13, she obviously became self-educated. she probably read educated newspapers like the london times. the lower classes today refer to the sunday times as The Fucking Times. the world is now a dirtier world. men who hang around men's toilets want to get married and adopt children. disgusting. even if charles lalughton was gay himself.

JOSEPH McBLOGGS men who hang around toilets? god, you're the disgusting one for thinking that's something a typical gay man does. this isn't 1950. why did you add that onto the end of your rant about the dumbing down of people, anyway? just makes you sound uneducated.

Blondie Mckenzie Aside from being a bitter, and hateful homophobe, you're hung up on class in the most despicable way. Best of all, with your air of superiority, and disdain for all current education, your writing and punctuation is a disaster, as is your lack of capital letters, and incorrect spacing. I can only conclude, based on the what you've written, that you failed to enjoy good schooling, did not read educated newspapers, and have a need to be seen otherwise. I feel sorry for you.

No, I don't feel sorry for you. Shame on you for putting down so many types of people, painting them with broad strokes of ignorance.

Joseph Preston I hear you. Just the same... Not all americans, or all of any one group of people, are that foolish. We don't think actors that speak with english accents are American, but thanks for that broad brush you painted us with. There are too many in the U.S. that are willfully provincial, though the same could be said of people in any country. Case in point, Blondie McHateful, and the global list goes on... I'm sure you already know this.

I think he was being tactful, and dutifully avoided the more controversial aspects of her life...her marriage to a gay man, and likely her affection for women...no kids, etc. She likely was busy being his "beard"...a very common thing in Hollywood, even now.

The wife! Unless …

@@tommoncrieff1154 Whooops!

She was mentally together...but looked her age.

LANCHESTER!

What are struggling to say? Do you like her or not? Was that an insult or what? Having sensed some tawdry, left handed spin I would caution you that given your poor manner of communicating ideas that you have not and probably will not ever be in this great ladies orbit.

She played a " hatchet murderous Evelyn Holmbly" as I recall. Great episode.

She played a " hatchet murderous escaped convict Evelyn Holmbly".

@@billross5084 she was not the hatchet murderous...but Lucy and Ethel thought she was.

Yes you are correct. And she thought Lucy was the hatchet murderess " traveling with her blonde companion".

@@billross5084 yes. We just watched that episode last tonight! 😂

Есенин совсем не “незаметный”. Исключением Пушкина, он самый возлюбленный поэт России. И мне всё равно, как Вы думаете. И кроме того, Вы самый не умеете на писать на английском!

Is this a reference to the Pond-Duncan Love Letters?

I thought that most English folks were socialists; their system of government has a lot of socialist features.

@@curbozerboomer1773 I believe it has a lot to do with the fact that England was one of the first country to industrialize, had a very big working class wich went through the most terrible forms of exploitation, thus creating the ideal conditions for socialist ideas to emerge.

@@curbozerboomer1773No, the English are probably the least socialist country in Europe. They’re an essentially centrist people.

Yes. She was (accidentally) running circles around him.

She is much a lady as not to out him as a dweeb.

He always had great guests, but not the sense or humility to not try to compete with his guests. Even as a child, I always found him completely insufferable. I just wanted to listen to these amazing people share their experiences and thoughts.

No, Elsa was definitely heterosexual. From my point of view, that was a sad side of her life. But when Laughton was dying of cancer, Elsa would walk up in the Hollywood Hills behind their houseat 1825 Curson just half a block up from Hollywood Blvd and across from the Wattles Estate. She would pick wild flowers to bring back to Charles. That was a sign of devotion and love. Like most couples, there were ups and downs. Charles Laughton didn't have appreciation for Elsa's taste in art and would remove, then sell art works that she had purchased and hung in their home. Laughton collected pre-Columbian art. Years after he died, she was at a Turnabout Christmas party in which I too attended. It was a grab bag party in which each person brought a wrapped gift and placed it under a sheet in the middle of the living room. Everyone sat in a circle around the sheet. Each person had a turn to reach in and pull out a present. I picked a small present that turned out to have been brought by an antique dealer. Inside was a pre-Columbian chicken head. I wanted it as a Punch and Judy enthusiast. I knew that Punch original name was Pulcinella which in Greek Commedia del Arte meant chicken beak for his large nose. Elsa wanted the chicken but I wanted it more. I kept it. Elsa was gracious and didn't insist. I still have my pre-Columbian chicken head.

Cult? 1970's had funky fashion and decor! Elsa's career was during the 1920's to the 1950's with guest roles on TV shows in the 1960's to the early 1970's She started out in plays and also sang in British Music halls (UK's equivalent to US's Vaudeville -- live entertainment) venues and in early films.

He was in his early thirties here...she was from another generation in time.