Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1560 Vine St. Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester continued to act, making occasional film appearances such as the departing nanny in the opening scenes of Mary Poppins, and a sleuth in the 1976 Agatha Christie spoof, Murder by Death. She died in Hollywood, California. 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. By the end of her career she had appeared in more than one hundred films. This and other appearances in British films helped her gain the title role in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Her subsequent films included Gone With the Wind (1939), Northwest Passage (1940), and High Sierra (1941), but by the end of the 1940s her roles had reduced in significance to the degree that her performances were often uncredited. 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).

Her most significant role was as the prostitute Gloria Stone in Lost Horizon (1937). Her birth name was Elizabeth Sullivan. She was well received playing against type, as a seamstress sentenced to death on the guillotine, in A Tale of Two Cities (1935). 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. She played stereotypical gangster's women in such films as Manhattan Melodrama (1934) and Marked Woman (1937). A petite 4' 11" tall and with platinum blonde hair, Jewell appeared in a variety of supporting roles during the early 1930s.

She was brought to Hollywood for the film version of the latter, by Warner Brothers. Born in Shoshone, Wyoming, Jewell was a Broadway actress who achieved immediate success and glowing critical reviews in two productions, Up Pops the Devil (1930) and Blessed Event (1932). Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 - April 5, 1972) was an American film actress.