Elise Cavanna
| Elise Cavanna | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elise Seeds January 30, 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | May 12, 1963 (aged 61) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, comedian, dancer, artist |
| Years active | 1926-1945 |
| Spouse(s) | Merle Armitage (1932-19??), James Welton (19??-19??) |
Elise Cavanna (January 30, 1902 – May 12, 1963) was an American film actress, stage comedian, dancer, and fine artist. She went by the following names: Elise Seeds, Alyse Seeds, Elise Armitage, Elise Cavanna and Elise Welton.
Born Elise Seeds in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Sally D. Burk and Thomas M. Seeds. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy and studied dancing with Isadora Duncan in Berlin, Germany. Cavanna was 6 feet tall and very svelte. She gave dance recitals in New York City until she began to dislike it. Then she became a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies.
Cavanna was a comedian with Joe Weber and Lew Fields before she entered motion pictures in 1926. Her first film was Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) with Louise Brooks and Evelyn Brent. Next she performed as an "early morning customer" with Brooks and W.C. Fields in It's the Old Army Game (1926). She worked with Fields in four other of his films, most notably The Dentist, where her scenes as a writhing victim of the brutal dentist (Fields) were deemed so risque that they were edited out for television broadcast decades later. Her on-screen interplay with Fields was compared by film historian William K. Everson to that between Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont. Cavanna remained in films until the late 1930s, compiling more than twenty screen credits.
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