- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE3675
Chauvel, Elsa
- OBE
- Birth name Wilcox, Elsie May
Stage name Sylvaney, Elsie
- Born 10 January 1898, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
- Died 22 December 1983, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
- Occupation Filmmaker
Summary
Elsa Chauvel collaborated with her filmmaker husband, Charles Chauvel, on a number of feature films including Uncivilized (1936), Forty Thousand Horsemen (1941), Sons of Matthew (1949), Jedda (1955) and Heritage (1935).
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Chauvel, Elsa (-1983), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459081
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Edited Book
- 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20071105022623/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/78644/20071105-1315/www.200australianwomen.com/index.html
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Resource Section
- Chauvel, Elsa (1898 - 1983), Crichton, Pam, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170202b.htm
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders