Elissa Landi

Elissa Landi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1615 Vine St. In 2001, she married Atlanta, Georgia businessman Rhett Hartzog. She died from cancer in Kingston, New York. MacDowell was married between 1986 and 1999 to former model and rancher Paul Qualley; the couple have a son and two daughters. She became a United States Citizen in 1943, and dedicted herself to writing, producing six novels and a series of poems. Director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape; her performance earned her several award nominations and led to a series of starring roles in films such as Green Card, The Object of Beauty, and Short Cuts. As of 2004, her biggest successes were in the box office hits Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral. After only two more films she retired, in 1943. Four years later, in 1989, she hit her professional stride.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed her to a contract and after a couple of romantic dramas she played the cousin of Myrna Loy in the very popular After the Thin Man (1936). Elmo's Fire, but her film career seemed to have stalled. Her contract with Fox was abruptly cancelled in 1936 as a result of her refusal to accept a particular role. In 1985, she had a small part in St. She was paired successfully with some of the major leading men, such as David Manners, Warner Baxter, and Ronald Colman in romantic dramas, before appearing in the box office hit The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) with Robert Donat. A series of television commercials for Calvin Klein drew attention to her and led in 1984 to her film debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, a role in which her lines were rerecorded by Glenn Close. De Mille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), but was overshadowed by Claudette Colbert who played the flashier role of the temptress. She appeared in print and televion advertisements for the cosmetic and haircare company L'Oreal, a job she continued even after she got her first job as an actress.

Her first ambition was to be a writer, and she wrote her first novel at the age of twenty. Elmo's Fire (1985). Born Elizabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Italy, Landi was raised in Austria and educated in England. St. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Green Card (1990).