Profile
Elizabeth Allan
Actress
Female
Born
Apr 9, 1908
Hometown
Lincolnshire
Died
Jul 27, 1990
Death Place
Hove
This article is about the British actress. For the American actress, see Elizabeth Allen. Elizabeth Allan File:Elizabeth Allan in Camille.
Romance
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Wilfred J. O'BryenMarried 1932 - 1977
Family
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Elizabeth Allan
d.1990
children
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Robert Montgomery Jr.Son, d.2000
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Martha Bryan MontgomeryDaughter, d.1931
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1910
Birth
She was born at Skegness, Lincolnshire in 1910 (some sources indicate 1908), and after four years onstage with the Old Vic, she made her film debut in 1931, first appearing in Alibi.
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TWENTIES
1932
22 Years Old
In 1932 she joined Wilfred J. O'Bryen — to whom she had been introduced by actor Herbert Marshall — in a marriage that lasted until his death in 1977.
1933
23 Years Old
Her first US/UK co-production and first US production came in 1933, and she worked in the United States under contract with MGM. 1935 was her most memorable year in Hollywood, when she not only distinguished herself in two memorable Dickens' adaptations as David's unfortunate young mother in George Cukor's David Copperfield and as Lucie Manette in Jack Conway's A Tale of Two Cities, but was also featured in Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire.
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1938
28 Years Old
The studio retaliated by refusing to let her work, and, frustrated, she returned to the UK in 1938.
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FORTIES
1952
42 Years Old
Late in her career, she was a frequent panelist on television game shows, including the British version of What's My Line? She was named Great Britain's Top Female TV Personality of 1952.
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1958
48 Years Old
In 1958, she appeared as Boris Karloff's wife in The Haunted Strangler.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1990
80 Years Old
Died on July 27, 1990.
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