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...Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Elissa Landi advocated that dramatic critics "temper their honesty" to help the theater's business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Uniforms | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...fifth columnists via a program called Wings For America. Using the Orson Welles-Martian Invasion technique, the Tribune-MBS aerial brain storm concerns itself with the patriotic struggles of a mythical Tribune newshen named Lorna Carroll to overthrow a bunch of Putschers calling themselves the "Advance Front." With solemn Elissa Landi playing Lorna, dapper Phillips Holmes as an imaginary MBS commentator, the first installment of Wings For America, which is due to run serially for the next nine weeks, indicated that before the show's run had ended, it would be firmly established as the dizziest radio drama ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dark Doings | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

What is the name of the night club that Elissa Winston is in on Broadway? She won the title of Miss Empire State in the recent beauty contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery in Berkeley Square (Cedarhurst, L. I.); Madge Evans in Stage Door (Suffern, N. Y.); Jane Wyatt (Coquette, Stage Door, Biography) and Elissa Landi (The Lady Has a Heart) at various resorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Silo Stagers | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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