Word: landy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...
...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
Brattle Hall puts on blue jeans and a straw hat Monday evening when Louise Falk and John Huntington open the 1945 Cambridge Summer Theatre season with Noel Coward's comedy, "Blithe Spirit," starring Elissa Landi. The play, which ran on Broadway for so long, is scheduled to run for one week, through Saturday evening...
Paramount Pictures, Inc. released "The Sign of the Cross" in December, 1932, with Cecil B. DeMille as director and with one of the first four-star casts: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton, and thousands of extras. Its reappearance is of interest to students of the cinema art, but by modern standards it is no longer good entertainment...