Elissa Landi
Elissa Landi, born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt (December 6, 1904 in Venice, Italy, † October 21, 1948 in Kingston, United States) was an Austrian- American actress and writer.
Life
Elissa Landi was born in Venice as the daughter of the Austrian Richard Kühnelt, an officer, and Caroline Kühnelt, born emperors who claimed to be the daughter of Empress Elisabeth. She had an older brother named Anthony Franz Kühnelt .. The family first lived in small hard until the parents divorced. Later, her mother a Carlo Zanardi Landi married.
In the 1920s, had Landi roles in British, French and German films from 1931 in the United States. In 1943 she retired from the film business and turned to the letter to. On 2 October 1944, her daughter Carolyn Maude Thomas - father was the author Curtis Kinney Thomas - in Manhattan to the world what the Time magazine was worth a note. In 1948, she died of cancer.
On the Hollywood Walk of Fame she has a star on 1611 Vine Street address.