TV Guide: Elsa Lanchester

Listing: Tales of Manhattan

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:30:00 -0500

Thu Dec 4 07:30 AM FMC

Listing: Lassie Come Home

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:45:00 -0500

Mon Dec 1 07:45 AM TCM

Listing: The Bishop's Wife

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:00:00 -0500

Sun Nov 30 06:00 PM TCM

Listing: Pajama Party

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:15:00 -0500

Sun Nov 30 04:15 PM TCM

Listing: Son of Fury

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 26 06:00 AM FMC

Listing: Witness for the Prosecution

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:15:00 -0500

Mon Nov 24 10:15 PM TCM

Video: Rembrandt (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Open

TCM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:35:28 -0500

Opening credit sequence for Alexander Korda's 1936 production of Rembrandt, starring Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence and Elsa Lanchester.

Video: Private Life of Henry VIII, The -- (Movie Clip) Anne of Cleves

TCM — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:35:17 -0500

King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton), losing at cards to his German wife Anne of Cleves (Laughton's own wife Elsa Lanchester), cuts a better deal in The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1934.

Video: Murder By Death

iTunes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:32:08 -0500

The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert? You are cordially invited to join an all-star cast featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Peter Falk, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Eileen Brennan, Nancy Walker, James Cromwell and Estelle Winwood for Neil Simon's hilarious murder-mystery spoof Murder By Death. The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (celebrated author Truman Capote in a Golden Globe(r) -nominated performance) is the setting for the twisted puzzler. Twain informshis guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off: $1 million to whoever lives through the night. Murder By Death neatly lampoons both the mystery genre and the characterizations of these instantly recognizable gumshoes. Match wits with the super sleuths, but remember, you can't win if you end up dying from laughter!

Video: Spiral Staircase, The -- (Movie Clip) Watcher

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:02 -0500

The mute servant Helen (Dorothy McGuire) has no idea she's being watched, until the bossy Mrs. Oates (Elsa Lanchester) interrupts in Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase, 1946.

Video: Spiral Staircase, The -- (Movie Clip) Blanche

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:01 -0500

The tempestuous Blanche (Rhonda Fleming) informs the mute Helen (Dorothy McGuire) of her plans, dodges the tippling Mrs. Oates (Elsa Lanchester) then runs into trouble in The Spiral Staircase, 1946.

Video: Pajama Party - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:59:33 -0500

Tom Kirk comes from Mars to lead an invasion and lands in the middle of a Pajama Party (1964) with guest appearances by Elsa Lanchester and Buster Keaton.

Video: The Bride of Frankenstein

iTunes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:20:27 -0500

One of the most popular horror classics of all time and an acclaimed sequel to the original Frankenstein. The legendary Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most understood monster who now longs for a mate of his own. Colin Clive is back as the overly ambitious Dr. Frankenstein, who creates the ill-fade bride (Elsa Lanchester). Directed by the original's James Whale (his last horror film) and featuring a haunting musical score, The Bride of Frankenstein ranks as one of the finest films not only of the genre, but for all time.

Video: Lassie Come Home

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:42:38 -0500

Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have actually been well-disguised males. A magnificent animal named Pal was the screen's first Lassie in 1943's Lassie Come Home. Set in Yorkshire during the first World War, the film gets under way when the poverty-stricken parents (Donald Crisp, Elsa Lanchester) of young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) are forced to sell his beloved Lassie. While her new master, the duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), is pleasant enough, Lassie prefers the company of Joe and repeatedly escapes. Even when cared for by the duke's affectionate granddaughter, Priscilla (Elizabeth Taylor), Lassie insists upon heading back to her original home. This time, however, the trip is much longer, and Lassie must depend upon the kindness of strangers, notably farmers Dally (Dame May Whitty) and Dan'l Fadden (Ben Webster) and handyman Rowlie (Edmund Gwenn). Based on the novel by Eric Knight (originally serialized in {~The Saturd

Video: Bride Of Frankenstein, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:58:46 -0500

This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling conversation. The wicked Byron mockingly chastises Mary for frightening the literary world with her recent novel {-Frankenstein}, but Mary insists that her horror tale preached a valuable moral, that man was not meant to dabble in the works of God. Moreover, Mary adds that her story did not end with the death of Frankenstein's monster, whereupon she tells the enthralled Byron and Shelley what happened next. Surviving the windmill fire that brought the original 1931 Frankenstein to a close, the Monster (Boris Karloff) quickly revives and goes on another rampage of death and destruction. Meanwhile, his ailing creator Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) discovers that his former mentor, the demented Doctor Praetorius (Ernst Thesiger), plans to create another life-sized

Video: Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:59:53 -0500

Theirs was one of the most touching and adult relationships in Hollywood, which survived the tortured emotional life of one of Britain's greatest actors.