Elissa Landi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1904-12-06 (44 years old)

Deathday

1948-10-21

Place of Birth

Venice, Italy

Elissa Landi

Biography

Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing. Born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Landi was raised in Austria and educated in England. Her first ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty. She would return to writing during lulls in her acting career. She joined the Oxford Repertory Company at an early age, appearing in many British and American stage successes. During the 1920s she appeared i...

Acting

1928

1936

After the Thin Man

as Selma Forrest Landis

1932

Devil's Lottery

as Evelyn Beresford

1935

Enter Madame

as Lisa Della Robbia

1931

The Yellow Ticket

as Marya Kalish

1936

Mad Holiday

as Peter Dean

1933

1937

The Thirteenth Chair

as Helen Trent

1931

Wicked

as Margot Rande

1928

Sin

as Kersti

1935

Crimson Dynasty

as Princess Aurore

1934

Man of Two Worlds

as Joan Pemberton

1937

Hollywood Party

as Herself - the Hostess

1933

The Masquerader

as Eve Chilcote

1933

I Loved You Wednesday

as Vicki Meredith

1935

Without Regret

as Jennifer Gage

1933

1927

London

as Alice Cranston

1932

A Passport to Hell

as Myra Carson

1931

Always Goodbye

as Lila Banning

1931

1936

The Amateur Gentleman

as Lady Cleone Meredith

1943

Corregidor

as Dr. Royce Lee Stockman

1932

The Woman in Room 13

as Laura Ramsey

1928

Bolibar

as Françoise-Marie / La Monita

1930

1930

The Price of Things

as Anthea Mary Dayre

1930

Knowing Men

as Korah Hurley / Collette

1934

The Great Flirtation

as Zita Marishka

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