
October 28, 1902 · 123 years old
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (October 28, 1902 – December 26, 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television and former dancer. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career ov…

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.

In 1906, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns ten years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Track coach Steve Walker accidentally invokes the spirit of notorious pirate Captain Blackbeard who was believed dead. He must now lay the pirate to rest and save a local hotel from mobster Silky Seymour, who wants to build a casino.

After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.

A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.

A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach.

A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.

An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud against his former crime syndicate partners.

Upon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.