Cast: Ellen Corby

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ellen Corby. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Vertigo

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Henry Jones · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old...

8.2

69K votes

8.2

69K votes

Sabrina

1954 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Audrey Hepburn · William Holden · Walter Hampden

Plot Sabrina is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur who has been in love with David Larrabee for all her life. David is very spoiled and crazy for women,...

7.5

33K votes

7.5

33K votes

Caged

1950 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Eleanor Parker · Agnes Moorehead · Ellen Corby · Hope Emerson

Plot Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. A sympathetic prison head (Agnes Moorehead) tries to help, but...

7.3

710 votes

7.3

710 votes

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Lund · Brian Donlevy · Audrey Totter · Joan Leslie

Plot Kate Quantrill (Audrey Totter), wife of infamous Confederate raider Quantrill (Brian Donlevy), and Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), virginal sister of Kate's ex-lover, saloonkeeper Bitteroot Bill (Reed Hadley). Sally herself falls...

7.3

47 votes

7.3

47 votes

The Mating Season

1951 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Gene Tierney · John Lund · Miriam Hopkins · Thelma Ritter

Plot White-collar working stiff but upwardly mobile Val McNulty meets, quickly falls in love and marries socialite Maggie Carleton, who has no money of her own. Thus, they live in a...

6.8

282 votes

6.8

282 votes

Slightly Scarlet

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast John Payne · Rhonda Fleming · Arlene Dahl · Kent Taylor

Plot Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this...

6.7

416 votes

6.7

416 votes

Illegal

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Nina Foch · Hugh Marlowe · Jayne Mansfield

Plot After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele. Remake of "The Man Who Talked...

6.7

269 votes

6.7

269 votes

I Remember Mama

1948 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens

Cast Irene Dunne · Barbara Bel Geddes · Oskar Homolka · Ellen Corby

Plot The life of a Norwegian immigrant family in 1910 San Francisco centers around Mama and her detailed, pennywise household budget. We follow the Hansens' small joys, sorrows, and aspirations, with...

6.6

182 votes

6.6

182 votes

Sons of the Desert

1933 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Charley Chase · Mae Busch

Plot When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the...

6.6

784 votes

6.6

784 votes

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Barbara Hale · Anne Francis · Warner Anderson

Plot A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

6.5

286 votes

6.5

286 votes

The Strangler

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Burt Topper

Cast Victor Buono · David McLean · Diane Sayer · Davey Davison

Plot Leo Kroll, a lab technician in a large unnamed city, is responsible for the strangulation murders of several young nurses. He feels that in some twisted way, that he is...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Toby (TV)

1956 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Alfred Hitchcock · Jessica Tandy · Robert H. Harris · George Mathews

Plot New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't...

6.2

27 votes

6.2

27 votes

The F.B.I. (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Don Medford · Jesse Hibbs · William Hale

Cast Efrem Zimbalist Jr. · Philip Abbott · Marvin Miller · William Reynolds

Plot TV Series (1965-1974) 241 episodes. Cases, based on real FBI files, were handled by Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and several coworkers over the years.

6.1

23 votes

6.1

23 votes

6.1

289 votes

A Woman's Secret

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Maureen O'Hara · Melvyn Douglas · Gloria Grahame · Bill Williams

Plot Susan is laying in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up her...

5.8

380 votes

5.8

380 votes

The Waltons (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Earl Hamner Jr. · Harry Harris · Philip Leacock · Ralph Waite

Cast Jon Walmsley · Eric Scott · Kami Cotler · Earl Hamner Jr.

Plot TV Series (1971-1981). 9 seasons. 213 episodes. In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, during the Great Depression, the Walton family makes its small income from its saw mill on...

5.7

87 votes

5.7

87 votes

Macabre

1958 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William Castle

Cast William Prince · Jim Backus · Christine White · Jacqueline Scott

Plot A small-town doctor (William Prince) gets caught up in a revenge plot when his small daughter is kidnapped and buried alive as he is given a few short hours to...

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

On Moonlight Bay

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Jack Smith · Leon Ames

Plot The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has...

5.5

25 votes

5.5

25 votes

The Big Trees

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eve Miller · Patrice Wymore · Edgar Buchanan

Plot In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he hopes to grab has...

5.5

459 votes

5.5

459 votes

The vanquished

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

5.1

41 votes

5.1

41 votes