1. Elissa Landi was raised in the village of Kleinhart in Lower Austria near Vienna until the divorce of her parents.
12 Facts About Elissa Landi
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Elissa Landi wrote her first novel at the age of twenty, and returned to writing during lulls in her acting career.
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Elissa Landi joined the Oxford Repertory Company at an early age, and appeared in many successful British and American stage productions.
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Elissa Landi was signed to a contract by Fox Film Corporation in 1931.
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Elissa Landi was paired successfully with some of the major leading men, including David Manners, Charles Farrell, Warner Baxter, and Ronald Colman, in romantic dramas such as Body and Soul.
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Elissa Landi starred in the box office hit The Count of Monte Cristo with Robert Donat.
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Elissa Landi retired from acting in 1943, after making only two more films.
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Elissa Landi became a naturalized US citizen in 1943 and dedicated herself to writing, producing six novels and a series of poems.
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Elissa Landi had published her first novel as early as age nineteen.
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Elissa Landi continued writing novels at the height of her movie fame and for the rest of her short life.
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Elissa Landi died from cancer in Kingston, New York, at age 43 and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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Elissa Landi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1611 Vine Street.