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Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is a fictional character played by Joan Bennett on the cult television ABC-TV Gothic horror soap opera ''Dark Shadows'' from 1966 to 1971. Elizabeth is the matriarch of the Collins family, the longtime owners of a cannery and shipping company in a small Maine fishing town. Jean Simmons portrayed the character in the revival series in 1991, and Blair Brown took over the role in the WB pilot. Elizabeth is played by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 2012 feature film. ==Original series== At the start of the series (1966), we learn that Elizabeth's husband Paul Stoddard (Dennis Patrick) disappeared in 1949, some 17 years before the arrival of governess Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke). Since her husband went missing, Elizabeth has not left the ancient family mansion, Collinwood, or its grounds. Elizabeth's younger brother is the snobbish Roger Collins (Louis Edmonds). The father of both Elizabeth and Roger was Jamison Collins. Roger has a darkly mischievous (some would say diabolical) son named David Collins (David Henesy), of whom Elizabeth is quite fond. Elizabeth's daughter is spoiled rich girl Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett). Despite her imperious and reserved exterior, Elizabeth is a deeply passionate woman who harbors several dark secrets. The main secret that emerges in the course of the series is her belief that she murdered her husband, Paul Stoddard, and that his body was buried in the basement. This is the reason she has not left Collinwood for nearly 20 years. However, the story of her husband's death proves to be an elaborate con by Paul himself and his criminal colleague Jason McGuire (also played by Dennis Patrick), through which they planned to blackmail Elizabeth into giving them the Collins fortune. Fortunately the truth comes out before grave damage is done, and McGuire is killed shortly thereafter by Barnabas Collins as he desperately tried to recoup his losses. Paul eventually reappears in 1969, and dies the following year. According to the family Bible, shot in close-up in episodes dealing with Elizabeth's attempted suicide by jumping from Widow's Hill, she was born February 28, 1917; Roger was born September 14, 1925; and Carolyn was born July 16, 1946, but there seems to be some inconsistency in dates. Many of the 1966-67 storylines centered on Victoria Winters and her relationship with Elizabeth (as well as the larger Collins family). It is implied throughout the series that Vicki is a blood relative of the family, but this plotline is never fully realized.〔This was inspired by the fact that actress Alexandra Moltke closely resembled Joan Bennett - so much so that when Bennett first saw Moltke (at a distance) she thought it was one of her own daughters!〕 The character of Vicki was eventually written out of the show in 1968, when she falls in love with a young man named Peter Bradford from the years 1795-1796, and returns with him to his era to live out her life there. In 1999, writers Stephen Mark Rainey and Elizabeth Massie wrote the ''Dark Shadows'' novel ''Dreams of the Dark.'' The story concludes with a confirmation that Victoria Winters is in fact the illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth Collins. The identity of Vicki's father, however, is never revealed, though some speculate that he was fisherman Bill Malloy (murdered in an early storyline), or the unseen Ned Calder (whom Elizabeth once mentioned as almost marrying). In 2003, the full-cast audio drama ''Return to Collinwood,'' which was approved by Dan Curtis Productions, also confirmed that Vicki was Elizabeth's illegitimate daughter during a reading of Elizabeth's will. Again, the father was left unidentified. The character of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard also appeared in the 1970 MGM film, ''House of Dark Shadows''. There is very little distinction between the film version of Elizabeth and the television version, despite the fact that both productions take place within independent continuities. In the film's sequel, ''Night of Dark Shadows'', Grayson Hall's character, Carlotta Drake, states that Elizabeth died some time after the events of ''House of Dark Shadows''. Elizabeth also appeared in several of the Marilyn Ross gothic novels by Paperback Library published during the 1960s-70s, as well as the original ''Dark Shadows'' comic book series published by Gold Key Comics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Collins Stoddard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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