~ Ellen Corby ~

Movies That Ellen Corby Appeared In

Movie Title	To buy in Canada	To buy in US
A Walton Easter (1997) (TV) as Grandma Walton	CAN	US
A Walton Wedding (1995) (TV) as Grandma Walton	CAN	US
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993) (TV) as Grandma Walton	CAN	US
Bingo! (1991) as Old Lady at 'Green Bay'	CAN	US
A Day for Thanks on Waltons' Mountain (1982) (TV) as Grandma Walton	CAN	US
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain (1982) (TV) as Grandma Walton	CAN	US
A Wedding on Waltons Mountain (1982) (TV) as Grandma Walton	CAN	US
All the Way Home (1981) (TV) as Great-Gandma	CAN	US
* The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974) (TV) as Ma Floyd [also titled Pretty Boy Floyd]	CAN	US
* Napoleon and Samantha (1972) as Gertrude	CAN	US
* The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) (TV) as Grandma Esther Walton	CAN	US
A Tattered Web (1971) (TV) as Mrs. Simmons	CAN	US
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) as Abigail	CAN	US
Cannon (1971) (TV) as Teacher	CAN	US
Angel in My Pocket (1969) as Old Woman	CAN	US
Ruba al prossimo tuo (1969) also titled Fine Pair as Mrs. Walker	CAN	US
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) as Script Girl	CAN	US
The Gnome-Mobile (1967) as Etta Pettibone	CAN	US
Mr. Terrific (1967) TV Series as Mrs. Beamish	CAN	US
The Night of the Grizzly (1966) as Hazel Squires	CAN	US
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966) as Anna Miller [also titled The Spy in Lace Panties]	CAN	US
* The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1965) as Miss Neva Tremaine	CAN	US
The Family Jewels (1965) as Airline Passenger	CAN	US
* Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) as Town Gossip	CAN	US
Cross of Iron (1964)	CAN	US
What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? (1964)	CAN	US
The Strangler (1964) as Mrs. Kroll	CAN	US
The Caretakers (1963) as Irene	CAN	US
Borderlines (1963) as Irene	CAN	US
4 for Texas (1963) as Widow	CAN	US
Saintly Sinners (1962) as Mrs. McKenzie	CAN	US
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) as Soho Sal	CAN	US
Visit to a Small Planet (1960) as Mrs. Mayberry	CAN	US
As Young as We Are (1958) as Mettie McPherson	CAN	US
Macabre (1958) as Miss Kushins	CAN	US
Vertigo (1958) as Manageress of McKittrick Hotel	CAN	US
.All Mine to Give (1957) as Mrs. Raiden	CAN	US
The Day They Gave Babies Away (1957) as Mrs. Raiden	CAN	US
God Is My Partner (1957) as Mrs. Dalton	CAN	US
Rockabilly Baby (1957) as Mrs. Wellington	CAN	US
The Seventh Sin (1957) as Sister Saint Joseph	CAN	US
Night Passage (1957) as Mrs. Feeney	CAN	US
The Go-Getter (1956) as The Maid	CAN	US
Slightly Scarlet (1956) as Martha	CAN	US
Stagecoach to Fury (1956) as Sarah	CAN	US
Illegal (1955) as Miss Hinkel	CAN	US
About Mrs. Leslie (1954) as Mrs. Croffman	CAN	US
Sabrina (1954) as Miss McCardle [also titles Sabrina Fair]	CAN	US
Susan Slept Here (1954) as Waitress	CAN	US
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954) as Amelia Gravesend	CAN	US
Untamed Heiress (1954) as Mrs. Flanny	CAN	US
Monsoon (1953) as Katie	CAN	US
The Vanquished (1953/I) as Mrs. Barbour	CAN	US
The Gallant Rebel (1962)	CAN	US
The Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) as First Woman	CAN	US
The Story of Three Loves (1953)	CAN	US
Equilibrium (1953)	CAN	US
Three Stories of Love (1953)	CAN	US
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) as Singing Woman	CAN	US
Shane (1953) as Mrs. Torrey	CAN	US
Fearless Fagan (1952) as Mrs. Ardley	CAN	US
The Big Trees (1952) as Sister Blackburn	CAN	US
Angels in the Outfield (1951) as Sister Veronica	CAN	US
Angels and the Pirates (1951)	CAN	US
On Moonlight Bay (1951) as Miss Stevens School Teacher	CAN	US
The Sea Hornet (1951) as Mrs. Drinkwater	CAN	US
The Barefoot Mailman (1951) as Miss Della	CAN	US
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) as Miss Birdshaw	CAN	US
Here Comes the Groom (1951) as Mrs. McGonigle	CAN	US
The Mating Season (1951) as Annie	CAN	US
Caged (1950) as Emma	CAN	US
Edge of Doom (1950) as Mrs. Moore	CAN	US
Stronger Than Fear (1950)	CAN	US
Harriet Craig (1950) as Lottie	CAN	US
Peggy (1950) .... Mrs. Privet, the Librarian	CAN	US
The Gunfighter (1950) as Mrs. Devlin	CAN	US
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950) as Emily [also titled Going to Town]	CAN	US
Captain China (1949) as Miss Endicott	CAN	US
Madame Bovary (1949) as Felicite	CAN	US
Mighty Joe Young (1949) as Woman	CAN	US
Mr. Joseph Young of Africa (1949) as Woman	CAN	US
Rusty Saves a Life (1949) as Miss Simmons	CAN	US
Little Women (1949) as Sophie	CAN	US
A Woman's Secret (1949) as Nurse	CAN	US
The Dark Past, The (1948) as Agnes	CAN	US
If You Knew Susie (1948) as Woman	CAN	US
Noose Hangs High, The (1948) as Maid	CAN	US
Strike It Rich (1948) as Mrs. Harkins	CAN	US
Fighting Father Dunne (1948) as Colpeck's secretary	CAN	US
* I Remember Mama (1948) as Aunt Trina	CAN	US
Born to Kill (1947) as 2nd Maid	CAN	US
Driftwood (1947) as Bit Part	CAN	US
The Fabulous Joe (1947) as Cathy	CAN	US
Forever Amber (1947) as Marge	CAN	US
Living in a Big Way (1947)	CAN	US
They Won't Believe Me (1947) as Screaming Woman	CAN	US
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) as Woman	CAN	US
Beat the Band (1947)	CAN	US
Bedlam (1946) as Queen of the Artichokes	CAN	US
Chamber of Horrors (1946)	CAN	US
Cuban Pete (1946) as Screaming patient	CAN	US
Down Cuba Way (1946)	CAN	US
The Dark Corner (1946) as Maid	CAN	US
From This Day Forward (1946) as Mother	CAN	US
In Old Sacramento (1946)	CAN	US
Flame of Sacramento (1946)	CAN	US
The Locket (1946) as Kitchen Girl	CAN	US
Lover Come Back (1946) as Rita	CAN	US
The Scarlet Horseman (1946) as Mrs. Barnes	CAN	US
Sister Kenny (1946) (uncredited) as Nurse	CAN	US
Till the End of Time (1946) as Mrs. Sumpter	CAN	US
The Truth About Murder (1946)	CAN	US
* It's a Wonderful Life (1946) as Miss Davis	CAN	US
Spiral Staircase, The (1946) as Neighbour	CAN	US
Crack-Up (1946) (uncredited) as Maid	CAN	US
Cornered (1945) as French Maid	CAN	US
Speed Limited (1935) as Secretary	CAN	US
Twisted Rails (1935)	CAN	US
The Broken Coin (1934)	CAN	US
Rafter Romance (1933) as Bit	CAN	US

It's A Wonderful Life I Remember Mama The Bitter End Perry Mason

Bonanza

The Andy Griffth Show Adam - 12 The Waltons The Waltons

Writings by Ellen Corby

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I Remember Grandma I can still hear her voice, and remember her smile. It has been some weeks now since she left, but she will never be forgotten. She may have been small in size, but her heart was as big as big can be. I'm sure in the years she played Grandma Esther Walton, that she heard from so many people, how she played a big part in their lives and how she had become their grandmother. Yes! She was a grandmother to me, I never got to know any of my grandparents and I know, if every there was a great example of a grandmother, I know Esther Walton would be the top of the list. What do you we know about grandma, she would have been eighty-eight years old on June 3rd, so in her memory and to mark that birth date, I plan to plant a rose bush called "Pink Peace" This rose has two different shades of light pink. Ellen was married to Francis Corby for ten years and she never had any children. I have read, that when she was young, she looked after an ill Mother and then later an ill brother. She lost a nine year old Niece and a Nephew who was twenty-nine years old. It was a pleasure to read about how she first came to California in 1933 and how she sat for hours in front of the gate of RKO Studios in an attempted to get into the movies. She appeared in her first movie called "Speed Limited" in 1940 where she played a secretary followed by her next one called "Cornered" in 1945 where she would play the part as a French maid. In all, she played in over a hundred movies and appeared in a great number of TV shows. Her last appearance was in 1997 as that dear loved grandma on "A Walton's Easter". I have learned lately, that Ellen Corby enjoyed lady bugs and, that months before her death she had paid for two stained glass windows in the hospital's chapel. It was just last month, that I had the pleasure in seeing her in the movie "Shane" followed a few days later as the town gossip in the movie "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte". And then there was her roll on The Andy Griffith Show where she sold Barney Fife a bad car. In June, I will have the honor to see her in the movie called "Napoleon and Samantha". And TNN has made it so great, to allow me to see her each day on the reruns of The Waltons. One of those many movies that Ellen has been in would be "A Wonderful Life" and "I Remember Mama" and that unforgettable TV movie "The Homecoming" and it is with this closing, I state "I Remember Grandma Ellen". Good Night Grandma By Shirley Benoit Ontario, Canada June 1st, 1999

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