- According to an item in The Screen Guild's Magazine, Elsie's big break came when she was cast by Sol Wurzel in The Man Who Dared after he saw her working as a cashier at The Brown Derby, the famous (now lost) Hollywood restaurant.
- Before she 'broke into pictures,' she worked as a cashier at the Brown Derby in Hollywood, as an usherette at the Fox Wilshire Theatre, and a switchboard operator at the Million Dollar Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Attended Hollywood High School.
- Before her film career, she was a mannequin at Bullocks Department Store.
- American-born daughter of Swedish immigrants.
- According to the The Screen Guild's Magazine, she was the first person in Hollywood to have an Alaskan husky as a pet.
- Attended California Christian College on a music scholarship and planned to pursue a career as a concert pianist before she broke into films.
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