Cast: Elsa Lanchester
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Elsa Lanchester. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Ghost Goes West
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction René Clair
Cast Robert Donat · Jean Parker · Eugene Pallette · Elsa Lanchester
Plot In the 18th Century the Glourie clan are called cowards by their rivals, the MacClaggan clan, for not going off to war with the English. And so the womanizing Murdoch...
6.2
409 votes
6.2
409 votes
The Glass Slipper
1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Charles Walters
Cast Leslie Caron · Michael Wilding · Keenan Wynn · Estelle Winwood
Plot In a small pleasant European village, there is one unhappy person: Ella. She is despised by everyone, and mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters. Out feeling miserable one day, Ella...
6.2
156 votes
6.2
156 votes
Me, Natalie
1969 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Fred Coe
Cast Patty Duke · James Farentino · Martin Balsam · Al Pacino
Plot A plain girl, living in New York, tries to come to terms with the fact that she'll never be beautiful.
6.1
48 votes
6.1
48 votes
Come to the Stable
1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Loretta Young · Celeste Holm · Hugh Marlowe · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in...
6.0
62 votes
6.0
62 votes
Frenchie
1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Louis King
Cast Joel McCrea · Shelley Winters · Paul Kelly · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the...
5.7
70 votes
5.7
70 votes
The Inspector General
1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester
Plot An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector...
5.7
371 votes
5.7
371 votes
Buccaneer's Girl
1950 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Frederick de Cordova
Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Philip Friend · Robert Douglas · Elsa Lanchester
Plot Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and...
5.6
108 votes
5.6
108 votes
Willard
1971 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Daniel Mann
Cast Bruce Davison · Elsa Lanchester · Ernest Borgnine · Sondra Locke
Plot A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a...
5.6
326 votes
5.6
326 votes
Androcles and the Lion
1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Chester Erskine
Cast Alan Young · Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Robert Newton
Plot Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the...
5.4
190 votes
5.4
190 votes
That Darn Cat!
1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Hayley Mills · Dean Jones · Dorothy Provine · Roddy McDowall
Plot The fur flies when a smart Siamese cat goes undercover and Hayley Mills and Dean Jones team up for mystery, adventure and wild comedy on Disney DVD. When the irrepressible...
5.3
466 votes
5.3
466 votes
Naughty Marietta
1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Robert Z. Leonard · W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · Frank Morgan · Douglass Dumbrille
Plot Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain is a beautiful, young, sophisticated French princess of 23, who finds more worth in true love than a title. On the eve of...
5.3
27 votes
5.3
27 votes
Hell's Half Acre
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John H. Auer
Cast Wendell Corey · Evelyn Keyes · Elsa Lanchester · Marie Windsor
Plot A woman who believes her missing husband is in prison in Hawaii on a murder charge travels there to see if it actually is him. However, he escapes before she...
5.2
22 votes
5.2
22 votes
Terror in the Wax Museum
1973 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Georg Fenady
Cast Ray Milland · Elsa Lanchester · Maurice Evans · John Carradine
Plot The owner of a wax museum is killed while mulling over the sale of the museum. The new owner has little better luck as the bodies continue to pile up....
5.1
98 votes
5.1
98 votes
Lassie Come Home
1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Fred M. Wilcox
Cast Roddy McDowall · Donald Crisp · Dame May Whitty · Edmund Gwenn
Plot Hard times came for Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog to the rich Duke of Rudling. However, Lassie, the dog, is unwilling to leave the young...
5.1
371 votes
5.1
371 votes
3 Ring Circus
1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Pevney
Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Joanne Dru · Zsa Zsa Gabor
Plot Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to...
5.1
56 votes
5.1
56 votes
The Girls of Pleasure Island
1953 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Alvin Ganzer · F. Hugh Herbert
Cast Leo Genn · Don Taylor · Gene Barry · Elsa Lanchester
Plot In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria,...
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Forever and a Day
1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Edmund Goulding · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Lloyd · Victor Saville
Cast Kent Smith · June Lockhart · Ray Milland · Claude Rains
Plot In this episodic, World War II film, an American (Kent Smith) travels to London to sell the stately old house that belongs to his family. While he's visiting the home,...
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1967 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Rich
Cast Elvis Presley · Dodie Marshall · Pat Priest · James Ward
Plot Lieutenant Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) is a former U.S. Navy frogman who divides his time between twin careers as a deep sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he...
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Honeymoon Hotel
1964 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Henry Levin
Cast Robert Goulet · Nancy Kwan · Robert Morse · Jill St. John
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Nanny and the Professor (TV Series)
1970 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction A.J. Carothers · Thomas L. Miller · Gary Nelson · Ralph Senensky
Cast Juliet Mills · Richard Long · Kim Richards · David Doremus
Plot TV Series (1970-1971). 3 seasons. 54 episodes. Ever-cheerful Nanny helps the Everett family with her subtly magical abilities, such as seemingly reading minds, seeing the future or making fortunate coincidences...
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