Elsie Ames

Elsie Ames (May 18, 1902 – May 3, 1983) was an American film actress specializing in comedies. Between 1937 and 1974 she acted in 15 films. Ames gained fame as the female film partner of Buster Keaton.[1]

Elsie Ames
BornMay 18, 1902
New Jersey, United States
DiedMay 3, 1983
Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States
OccupationActress

Personal

The daughter of Ames is the actress Elizabeth Deering. Mother and daughter acted in A Woman Under the Influence (1974).

From 1964 to 1983, Deering was married to Seymour Cassel. Ames and her son-in-law acted together in Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

Filmography
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References
  1. King, Rob (2017). Hokum!: The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture. University of California Press. p. 171. ISBN 9780520288119. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. Neibaur, James (2010). The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia. Scarecrow Press. p. 159. ISBN 9780810876835. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. Okuda, Ted; Watz, Edward (2013). The Columbia Comedy Shorts: Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933–1958. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9781476610108. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. Batista Da Silva, George (2010). Os Filmes De Buster Keaton (in Portuguese). Joinville, Brazil: Clube de Autores. p. 71 – via Google Books. Spook Speaks, The - Curta-metragem produzido e dirigido por Jules White pelos estúdios da Columbia Pictures Corporation no ano de 1940. A história leva as letras de Ewart Adamson, Clyde Bruckman e Elwood Ullman. Com Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Don Beddoe, Dorothy Appleby, Lynton Brent, John Tyrrell, Bruce Bennett e Evelyn Young.
  5. Erickson, Hall (2012). Military Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918. McFarland & Company. p. 51. ISBN 9780786462902. Retrieved October 23, 2017 – via Google Books.
  6. Canby, Vincent (December 23, 1971). "Movie Review: Film by Cassavetes Takes Friendly Jabs". The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2017. "Minnie and Moskowitz," John Cassavetes's sixth and, in many ways, most ambitious film, is also his friendliest, in the dish-throwing, door-pounding, exclamation-pointed manner of a comic strip. [...] Florence ..... Elsie Ames
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