Elissa Landi
Biography
Elissa Landi was an Austrian-American actress born in Venice, Italy, to Austrian parents, raised in Lower Austria and educated in England. She began her career on stage with the Oxford Repertory Company and transitioned to film in the 1920s, starring alongside major leading men in romantic dramas such as Body and Soul (1931) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1934). Her contract with Fox was later cancelled, leading to a successful stint at MGM.