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Ellen Corby is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 3 june 1911 at Racine (USA)
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Esther Walton" on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama.
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Birth name Ellen Hansen
Nationality USA
Birth 3 june 1911 at Racine (USA)
Death 14 april 1999 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 3 june 1911 at Racine (USA)
Death 14 april 1999 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Esther Walton" on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama.
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Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
, 1h32Directed by Bernard McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about lions, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster, Johnny Whitaker, Arch Johnson, Will Geer, Henry Jones
Roles Gertrude
Rating60%
Eleven-year-old Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker) lives with his grandfather (Will Geer). He and his grandfather adopt a lion named Major when by chance they meet an old clown who cannot take him back to Europe. The old lion has bad teeth and only drinks milk so they put Major in the chicken cage to look after him. When Napoleon's grandfather dies of old age, Napoleon asks a young grad student named Danny (Michael Douglas) to help bury his grandfather. Uncertain about his future Napoleon runs off with the lion, a pet rooster, and his friend Samantha (Jodie Foster) to try to find Danny, now a goat herder who lives in the mountains, and so Napoleon can avoid being sent to an orphanage.
, 1h33Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, John Dehner, Marie Windsor
Roles Abigail
Rating67%
Latigo Smith (Garner), a gambler and confidence man, is traveling by train in frontier-era Colorado with the rich and powerful Goldie (Marie Windsor). Goldie is besotted with Latigo and wants desperately to marry him, a fate that he wants no part of. He manages to slip off the train at Purgatory, a jerkwater mining town. Assessing the situation, he discovers that two rival companies of miners, led by Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) and Colonel Ames (John Dehner), are racing each other to find a "mother lode" of gold buried somewhere nearby. Massive dynamite blasts periodically rock the town to its foundations, creating or embellishing various moments of comic relief throughout the film.
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
, 2h10Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Roles Script Girl
Rating57%
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
A Fine Pair (1968)
, 1h55Directed by Francesco Maselli
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films
Actors Claudia Cardinale, Rock Hudson, Leon Askin, Ellen Corby, Walter Giller, Tomás Milián
Roles Maddy Walker
Rating49%
Un détective s'engage dans une relation avec la superbe fille d'un vieil ami. La fille s'avère être une voleuse de bijoux, qui finit par entraîner le détective dans un cambriolage en Autriche.
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
, 1h30Directed by Robert Stevenson, Paul Cameron, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon, Charles Lane
Roles Etta Pettibone (uncredited)
Rating63%
The story opens with the children's grandfather, D.J. Mulrooney (Walter Brennan), a well-known executive officer of a vast timber-trading company. D.J. is an eccentric and passionate man with a distinctive snore, as well as vast dedication and determination. D.J. is going to Seattle to sell 50,000 acres of timberland. D.J. takes his personal, customized 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II on the trip. In a brief conversation with his Company Head of Security, Ralph Yarby (Richard Deacon), we learn that the car was purchased after D.J. earned his first US$1 million. His first stop is The Airport where he picks up his grandchildren Elizabeth (Karen Dotrice) and Rodney (Matthew Garber) who are to accompany D.J. on his trip to Seattle. The children ask about the Rolls, to them an unusual car, and D.J. compares the Rolls with his first car back in Ireland, a one horsepower "Jaunty Car".
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
, 1h50Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey, Dom DeLuise, Eric Fleming, Edward Andrews
Roles Anna Miller
Rating63%
Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation in the waters of Santa Catalina Island, California. His widowed daughter, Jennifer Nelson, occasionally helps by donning a mermaid's costume and swimming underneath his boat for the passengers' amusement.
The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)
, 1h30Directed by Alan Rafkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror comedy, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Don Knotts, Liam Redmond, Joan Staley, Sandra Gould, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier
Roles Neva Tremaine
Rating71%
Luther Heggs is a typesetter at the newspaper in Rachel, Kansas, but aspires to be a reporter. One night, observing what he believes to be a murder outside of an old, supposedly haunted house known as the Simmons Mansion, Heggs rushes to the police station with his scoop. Unfortunately, as he relates the details of his story to the Chief of Police, the murder "victim" walks into the room, a local drunk who had merely been whacked unconscious by his irate wife, who had brought him in to be locked up. The next morning, Heggs walks downstairs to the dining room at the Natalie Miller boarding house and overhears Ollie Weaver (Homeier), a full-time reporter at the newspaper, mocking his mistakes of the night before; Ollie is also dating Heggs' love interest, Alma Parker (Joan Staley). According to local lore, the Simmons Mansion was a "murder house" (murder and suicide) 20 years earlier, when Mr. Simmons murdered his wife (with some unknown sharp instrument that was never located - ultimately revealed to be a pair of gardener's pruning shears), and then jumped to his death from the organ loft. Legend has it that the ghost of Mr. Simmons can still occasionally be heard playing the organ at midnight.
The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
, 1h42Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Kulp, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam
Roles Hazel Squires
Rating64%
Jim Cole, his wife Angela, along with their children Charlie and Gypsy, niece May, and friend Sam Potts arrive in a small Wyoming town. Jim had inherited a ranch from his late uncle, and decided to give up his former job as a lawman and become a rancher instead. In town they meet Mr. Benson the banker, who tells them about there is still a $675 mortgage on the property. Jim initially hesitates to take the land title when he learns of this, since it would take nearly all their savings but when told that another rancher Jed Curry wants the land for himself, he relents. Mr. Benson then explains that Jed Curry initially owned the property but lost it to Jim's late uncle in a card game, and wants it back for his sons. Meanwhile, a group of town boys make fun of Charlie, shooting a rock into his back. Determined to get back at them, he fights back and gets into a severe tussle. At Mr. Benson's office, Jim finally agrees to keep the land when Mr. Benson hands him the money/landowner's bill and settles the mortgage. Before they leave, Jim and Angela break up the fight involving Charlie and scold him.
The Family Jewels (1965)
, 1h39Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children, Films about families
Actors Jerry Lewis, Sebastian Cabot, Donna Butterworth, Neil Hamilton, Robert Strauss, Ellen Corby
Roles Airline Passenger
Rating62%
Donna Peyton (Donna Butterworth) is a ten-year-old girl who inherits a $30,000,000 fortune when her millionaire industrialist father passes away. Per terms of his will, Donna must choose one of her six uncles (all played by Jerry Lewis) to become her new "father". Lewis also plays Willard Woodward, the family chauffeur who takes Donna to all of her uncles to stay with them for two weeks. Donna's uncles are:
, 2h13Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Astor
Roles Lily
Rating74%
In 1927, young belle Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) and her married lover, John Mayhew (Bruce Dern), plan to elope during a party at the Hollis family's antebellum mansion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. However, after Charlotte's father intimidates him, telling him that John's wife had visited the day before and revealed the affair, John pretends he no longer loves Charlotte and tells her they must part.
The Strangler (1964)
, 1h30Directed by Burt Topper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Victor Buono, David McLean, Jeanne Bates, Baynes Barron, Ellen Corby
Roles Mrs. Kroll
Rating65%
Leo Kroll (Buono) is a mother-fixated lab technician who collects dolls. He is also a serial killer, responsible for the death of a number of nurses, and is questioned by the police regarding those murders, but is released. Kroll claims his next victim, Clara (Bates), the nurse who has been looking after his possessive mother, who is in hospital after a heart attack. However, he leaves a doll behind at the murder scene. (A subplot features Kroll becoming enamored of Tally (Davison), one of the girls who works at the amusement park stall from which he won this doll.)
4 for Texas (1963)
, 1h50Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono
Roles Widow
Rating54%
In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Matson (Charles Bronson).
The Caretakers (1963)
, 1h37Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Joan Crawford, Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Janis Paige, Constance Ford, Herbert Marshall
Roles Irene
Rating56%
Optimistic psychiatrist Dr. Donovan MacLeod wants to prove his theory that mental patients can benefit from group therapy. His method of treatment, with no violence or punishment, is met with a great deal of resistance from his unyielding and self-righteous head nurse, Lucretia Terry, who believes in traditional methods such as strait-jackets and padded cells for treating the mentally ill.
Saintly Sinners (1962)
, 1h17Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Don Beddoe, Ellen Corby, Stanley Clements, Addison Richards, Ron Hagerthy, William Fawcett
Roles Mrs. McKenzie
Rating51%
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
, 2h16Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Soho Sal
Rating71%
Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford) is a successful, very superstitious New York City gangster who buys apples from street peddler Apple Annie (Bette Davis) to bring him good luck. On the eve of a very important meeting, he finds Annie terribly upset.