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Elsa (ELL-suh)
1. A lioness written about in “Born Free”
2. British-born American character actress
Common clues: Joy's lioness, "Born Free" heroine; Lanchester of the "Bride of Frankenstein”
Crossword puzzle frequency: 8 times a year
Frequency in English language: 36165 / 86800
Elsa the Lioness (1956-January 24 1961) was a female lion raised by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson (1910-1980) in Kenya. Elsa was a mild domesticated pet that had later been taught to hunt and live in the wild. One day she brought home three cubs of her own. She died early of babesia, a blood disease rare to cats. Her amazing life was perpetuated in Joy Adamson's book Born Free and "Living Free", both of which were made into movies.
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McKenna & Elsa (stand-in)
Elsa Lanchester (October 28, 1902-December 26, 1986), was a British-born American character actress, perhaps best-known as the long-suffering wife of Charles Laughton. Her birth name was Elizabeth Sullivan.
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Lanchester and Boris Karloff in "The Bride of Frankenstein"
Lanchester married Laughton in 1929, and one of her first screen appearances was opposite him in The Private Life of Henry VIII (as a highly comical Anne of Cleves). This and other appearances in British films helped her gain the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). She continued to appear with her husband, for example in Rembrandt (1936), but never made a name as a female lead, mainly due to her lack of conventional beauty.
Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester continued to act, making occasional film appearances such as the departing nanny, Katie Nanna, in the opening scenes of Mary Poppins, and a sleuth in the 1976 Agatha Christie spoof, Murder by Death.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Elsa the lioness" and “Elsa Lanchester”.
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