Elizabeth Allan

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Elizabeth Allan (Photo by Elmer Russell Ball, 1935)

Elizabeth Allan (born April 9, 1908 in Skegness , Lincolnshire , England , † July 27, 1990 in Hove , East Sussex , England) was a British actress .

Life

She made her film debut in Chin Chin Chinaman in 1931 . After numerous insignificant films, she went to Hollywood in 1934 and starred alongside Robert Montgomery in the leading female role in An Unknown Murderer . In 1935 she played in a supporting role the weak-willed mother of David Copperfield in the Dickens film adaptation of the same name . Then she was allowed to play the lead role alongside Ronald Colman in Escape from Paris , another lavish Dickens film adaptation. In the same year she was also used in the horror film The Mark of the Vampire . A year later, Allan was in front of the camera in The Lady of the Camellias alongside Greta Garbo .

Soon after, however, she no longer got the roles she wanted to play. So she tried in vain for the lead role in The Citadel , which Rosalind Russell ultimately received. Her film appearances became less frequent and she moved the center of her life back to England. In 1951 she played a supporting role alongside James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich in The Journey into the Unknown . In the 1950s and 1960s she appeared regularly on the British television program What's My Line , the English-language version of What am I? , as a member of the advice team. In 1958 Allan made her last film, Grip of the Strangler , in which she appeared as the wife of Boris Karlott , but she continued to take on roles on British television until the late 1960s.

In 1932 she married Wilfred J. O Bryen, the marriage lasted until his death in 1977.

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personal data
SURNAME Allan, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Skegness , Lincolnshire , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1990
Place of death Hove , East Sussex , England , United Kingdom