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Elissa Landi was an Austrian-American actress born in Venice, who was popular as a performer in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. She "claims descent from Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary",
Trailer for After the Thin Man (1936)
Landi in 1932
Trailer for The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Robert Donat and Landi in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 American pre-Code epic historical drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the original 1895 play by English p
Elissa Landi
…that she can travel in Czarist Russia to visit her sick father. Fox lent her to Paramount in 1932 to play Mercia, the female lead in Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross adapted from the play of the same name. DeMille said he chose her for the role because "[t]here is the depth of the ages in her eyes, today in her body…
Theatrical release poster
Fredric March
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