Elissa Landi

Personal Info

Birthday

December 6, 1904

Day of Death

1948-10-21

(43 years old)

Place of Birth

Venice, Italy

Also Known As

Элисса Ланди

Elisabeth Marie Christine von Kühnelt

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.

Known For

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Sign of the Cross

After the Thin Man

Wicked

Mad Holiday

The Yellow Ticket

Without Regret

The Warrior's Husband

Filmography

1943
Corregidor
as Dr. Royce Lee Stockman
1937
The Thirteenth Chair
as Helen Trent
Hollywood Party
as Herself - the Hostess
1936
After the Thin Man
as Selma Forrest Landis
Mad Holiday
as Peter Dean
The Amateur Gentleman
as Lady Cleone Meredith
1935
Crimson Dynasty
as Princess Aurore
Without Regret
as Jennifer Gage
Enter Madame
as Lisa Della Robbia
1934
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Mercedes
The Great Flirtation
as Zita Marishka
Man of Two Worlds
as Joan Pemberton
1933
By Candlelight
as Marie
The Masquerader
as Eve Chilcote
I Loved You Wednesday
as Vicki Meredith
The Warrior's Husband
as Antiope
1932
The Sign of the Cross
as Mercia
A Passport to Hell
as Myra Carson
The Woman in Room 13
as Laura Ramsey
Devil's Lottery
as Evelyn Beresford
1931
The Yellow Ticket
as Marya Kalish
Wicked
as Margot Rande
Always Goodbye
as Lila Banning
Body and Soul
as Carla
1930
Children of Chance
as Binnie
The Price of Things
as Anthea Mary Dayre
Knowing Men
as Korah Hurley / Collette
1928
Sin
as Kersti
Underground
as Nell
Bolibar
as Françoise-Marie / La Monita
1927
London
as Alice Cranston