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- Elizabeth Russell was born on August 2, 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Corpse Vanishes (1942), So's Your Aunt Emma! (1942) and La Chambre des Horreurs (1946). She died on May 4, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Sister-in-law of Rosalind Russell.
- Minor character actress who appeared rather unsympathetically in a number of films for producer Val Lewton in the 1940s, including La Septième Victime (1943), La Chambre des Horreurs (1946) and La Féline (1942) and her best known part in La Malédiction des hommes-chats (1944).
- She wrote an as yet unproduced screenplay on the life of friend María Montez.
- Her first film assignment came almost immediately after her arrival at Paramount in Hollywood when she replaced Frances Farmer, who had been loaned to Samuel Goldwyn for the starring role in Le vandale (1936), in Girl of the Ozarks (1936) opposite Farmer's new husband, Leif Erickson.
- She met writer Peter Viertel through friend and roommate Maria Montez, and he introduced her to Val Lewton. She ultimately appeared in five pictures for Lewton's unit.
- I didn't like all the jealousy, upstaging, fights for bigger billing and the like. I wanted no part of it and was classified as "Mrs. Rich Bitch" because of my attitude.
- [speaking in the 1990s] They've had nothing but chaos since God was taken out of the schools, and they'll never have anything but chaos until they put Him back.
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