[2] Here, Elsa performed in chorus lines, and later appeared in such plays as The Thirteenth Chair, A Royal Divorce, and Sign of the Cross.

[2] Elsa was cast in the play The Silent Witness, which gave her a great deal of recognition in Johannesburg, therefore creating greater acting opportunities.

[1] Elsa first met her future-husband Charles Chauvel in 1926, following a performance of the musical Crackers at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, Queensland.

[2] After moving to Hollywood in 1928, the Chauvels tried to find American distributors for Charles' films but were unsuccessful in the emerging sound-on-film era.

[3] The couple were considered to represent a strong sense of Australian nationalism in the wake of the First World War for their hard work and ambition.

[3] Elsa accompanied Charles and cameraman Tasman Higgins to Pitcairn Island and Tahiti to film scenes for In the Wake of the Bounty (1933).

[2] Elsa was credited (under the pseudonym Ann Wynn) as production assistant on Heritage (1935),[1] in which she also portrayed the character Mrs Macquarie.

[3] She later co-wrote the screenplays for Rangle River (1937), Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940), The Rats of Tobruk (1944), Sons of Matthew (1949) and Jedda (1955).

[1] The research done for the script of Jedda (1955) required Elsa and Charles to travel to the Australian outback in 1952 and conduct location surveys in the East Kimberleys, moving North after this to shoot the film.

[5] Jedda was the first feature film in which Aboriginal actors were cast in lead roles, including Rosalie Kunoth-Monks and Robert Tudawali.

[5] Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, just fifteen at the time, was brought on set for two weeks before she started acting, leaving the Church of England Girls’ Hostel in Alice Springs, to introduce her to filmmaking.