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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 Bedlam (1946). She died on May 4, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Minor character actress who appeared rather unsympathetically in a number of films for producer Val Lewton in the 1940s, including The Seventh Victim (1943), Bedlam (1946) and Cat People (1942) and her best known part in The Curse of the Cat People (1944).
- Sister-in-law of Rosalind Russell.
- 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 Come and Get It (1936), in Girl of the Ozarks (1936) opposite Farmer's new husband, Leif Erickson.
- She wrote an as yet unproduced screenplay on the life of friend María Montez.
- 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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