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| | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Elsa Lanchester |
 | | To demonstrate her versatility, in the same year that she projected maternal warmth as Mother Goose in an episode of Shirley Temple's Storybook, she sparkled as an eccentric witch in Bell, Book, and Candle. |
 | | Laughton's death in 1962 didn't slow Lanchester down, and though opportunities for aging actresses are always limited, she was effective as the frustrated predecessor to Mary Poppins, as a sinister doctor working for THRUSH in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and as a vengeful ghost in an episode of Night Gallery. |
 | | In 1971, the producers of Nanny and the Professor, undoubtedly recalling how Moorhead had long enlivened another sitcom fantasy, Bewitched, hired Lanchester to perform similar duties in a recurring role as their Poppins-clone's Aunt Henrietta, though she was understandable unable to rescue that program from well-deserved oblivion. |
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