Elissa Landi
Birthday
1904/12/06
Day of death
1948/10/21 (43 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Venice, Italy
Also know as
Элисса Ланди, Elisabeth Marie Christine von Kühnelt
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 car...Read more
Acting
(1928) Underground
as Nell
(1936) After the Thin Man
as Selma Forrest Landis
(1934) The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mercedes
(1932) Devil's Lottery
as Evelyn Beresford
(1932) The Sign of the Cross
as Mercia
(1935) Enter Madame
as Lisa Della Robbia
(1931) The Yellow Ticket
as Marya Kalish
(1936) Mad Holiday
as Peter Dean
(1933) By Candlelight
as Marie
(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) The Warrior's Husband
as Antiope
(1927) London
as Alice Cranston
(1932) A Passport to Hell
as Myra Carson
(1931) Always Goodbye
as Lila Banning
(1931) Body and Soul
as Carla
(1936) The Amateur Gentleman
as Lady Cleone Meredith
(1943) Corregidor
as Dr. Royce Lee Stockman
(1932) The Woman in Room 13
as Laura Ramsey
(1930) The Voice of Hollywood
as ---
(1928) Bolibar
as Françoise-Marie / La Monita
(1930) Children of Chance
as Binnie
(1930) The Price of Things
as Anthea Mary Dayre
(1930) Knowing Men
as Korah Hurley / Collette
(1934) The Great Flirtation
as Zita Marishka