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Year: 1950

Director:
John Sturges

Mystery Street

Lieutenant Peter Morales: Is your husband here?
Mrs. Smerrling: [after a pause] Not exactly.
Lieutenant Peter Morales: Were you ever married?
Mrs. Smerrling: [Another pause] Not exactly. I... I, uh - you see, I...

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Mrs. Smerrling) in Mystery Street (1950)

Year: 1948

Director:
John Farrow

The Big Clock

Don Klausmeyer: I'm Don Klausmeyer, from Artways magazine.
Louise Patterson: Yes.
[giggles]
Louise Patterson: Oh, yes. Didn't you review my show in '41?
Don Klausmeyer: I think I did.
Louise Patterson: Oh, come in, Mr. Klausmann.
Don Klausmeyer: KlausMEYER.
Louise Patterson: [laughs gleefully] I've been planning to kill you for years.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock (1948)

Year: 1941

Director:
Charles Vidor

Ladies in Retirement

Emily Creed: I won't swear on the Bible. It's wicked.

-- Elsa Lanchester in Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Year: 1948

Director:
John Farrow

The Big Clock

Louise Patterson: [after George Stroud outbids her for a picture] Isn't it a pity... the wrong people always have money.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock (1948)

Year: 1948

Director:
John Farrow

The Big Clock

Louise Patterson: Oh Penelope, you forgot to put away your rollerskates.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock (1948)

Year: 1935

Director:
James Whale

Bride of Frankenstein

Mary Shelley: It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Bride) in Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Year: 1947

Director:
Henry Koster

The Bishop's Wife

Matilda: Nobody expects him be normal; he's a bishop.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Matilda) in The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Year: 1957

Director:
Billy Wilder

Witness for the Prosecution

Miss Plimsoll: Teeny weeny flight of steps, Sir Wilfrid, we mustn't forget we've had a teeny weeny heart attack.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Miss Plimsoll) in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Year: 1957

Director:
Billy Wilder

Witness for the Prosecution

Miss Plimsoll: Wilfrid the Fox! That's what they call him, and that's what he is!

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Miss Plimsoll) in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Year: 1943

Director:
Fred M. Wilcox

Lassie Come Home

Mrs. Carraclough: Oh, well. Ye may as well know it right off. Lassie won't be waiting for ye at school anymore.
Joe Carraclough: Why not? What's happened?
Mrs. Carraclough: Because she's sold; that's why not.

-- Elsa Lanchester (as Mrs. Carraclough) in Lassie Come Home (1943)

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