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Elizabeth Allan

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  • 1908 - 1990

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elizabeth Allan (9 April 1908 – 27 July 1990) was an English actress who worked in both England and Hollywood, making about 50 films over more than a quarter century. She was born at Skegness, Lincolnshire in 1908 (some sources indicate 1910), and after four years onstage with The Old Vic, she made her movie debut in 1931, first appearing in Alibi. In 1932 she joined Wilfred J. O'Bryen — to whom she had been introduced by actor Herbert Marshall — in a marriage that lasted until his death in 1977. Her first US/UK co-production and first US production came in 1933, and she worked in the United States under contract with MGM. 1935 was her most memorable year in Hollywood, when she not only distinguished herself in two memorable Dickens' adaptations as David's unfortunate young mother in George Cukor's David Copperfield and as Lucie Manette in Jack Conway's A Tale of Two Cities, but was also featured in Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire. Allan did not think highly of the latter film, to which she had been assigned, and considered it "slumming".[citation needed] MGM announced her for a leading part in King Vidor's The Citadel, and, when she was subsequently replaced by Rosalind Russell, Elizabeth sued the studio. The studio retaliated by refusing to let her work, and, frustrated, she returned to England in 1938. By the 1950s, Allan had made the transition to character parts. Particularly memorable is her appearance as Trevor Howard's brittle and dissatisfied wife in the film adaptation of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter (1953). In 1958, she appeared as Boris Karloff's wife in The Haunted Strangler. Late in her career, she was a frequent panelist on television game shows, including the British version of What's My Line?. She was named Great Britain's Top Female TV Personality of 1952. She died at Hove, East Sussex, aged 82. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elizabeth Allan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Birthday: 1908-04-09

Born At: Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Casted In:

Alibi
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Black Coffee
6060
A Tale of Two Cities
17831
Went the Day Well?
23924
Mark of the Vampire
28910
Camille
43874
No Highway
43882
David Copperfield
43899
The Soldier and the Lady
64551
The Shadow
65329
Grip of the Strangler
86667
The Brain Machine
86775
Ace of Aces
99993
Men in White
104661
A Woman Rebels
108348
The Heart of the Matter
119904
The Solitaire Man
120625
The Mystery of Mr. X
149642
Folly to be Wise
175126
The Phantom Fiend
175822
Outcast Lady
177415
Slave Ship
204040
Twice Upon a Time
210185
Nine Till Six
238722
Saloon Bar
238730
Java Head
238806
Inquest
256545
Service for Ladies
264422
He Snoops to Conquer
266942
The Great Mr Handel
282767
Looking Forward
290379
Front Page Story
321225
No Marriage Ties
358838
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