Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986) was a British actress who starred in The Bride of Frankenstein (playing both the title bride, or as the credits specified, the "monster's mate," who only hisses, and Mary Shelley in the prologue). She was also known for her often imperious supporting roles (typified by Katie Nanna in Mary Poppins).
Lanchester received Academy Award-nominations for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949, as eccentric artist Amelia Potts) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957, playing brisk nurse Miss Plimsoll opposite her husband Charles Laughton). For Disney, in addition to Mary Poppins, she appeared in That Darn Cat, Blackbeard's Ghost (with Peter Ustinov), and others. Other film credits include The Private Life of Henry VIII (also with Laughton, as Anne of Cleves), The Inspector General (with Danny Kaye, as the mayor's flirtatious wife), Bell, Book and Candle (as one of Kim Novak's witchy relatives), The Bishop's Wife, Lassie Come Home, and the Neil Simon comedy Murder by Death (as part of the all-star cast, playing a parody of Miss Marple).
On TV, she guest starred on I Love Lucy, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Night Gallery, and Shirley Temple's Storybook (as Mother Goose).
==References==
* Miss Piggy's hairdresser, in the June, 19, 1984 installment of The Muppets comic strip, claims to have done hair for the great old movie actresses... including Elsa Lanchester, resulting in Piggy sporting a Bride of Frankenstein hairdo.
* Lanchester's Bride of Frankenstein hair has been visually referenced many times since when the Muppets have done Frankenstein or horror pastiches.
 
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