Ellen Corby: why didn't she become a star of the 1st rank?

Really? Please contact your shrink asap!

I love Elen Corby.

But she was kind of a short, unconventional-looking lesbian with a Froggy voice

One of the most successful character actresses in Hollywood, but I'll bite.

Ellen Corby worked for the Hal Roach Studio in the 1930s and worked as a script girl with the Our Gang kids. Is it ironic that both Grandpa and Grandma Walton were gay in real life?

R4 I always found that funny about The Waltons too. Will Geer & Ellen Corby are great examples that gay and lesbian actors can play straight with utter conviction.

For years Rumer had it that she was Joan Crawford's co-star in the infamous stag film that Joan was in before she became famous. Ultimately, when the footage was found it turned out it was not Corby, but Nedra Volz...

The vivacious Miss Mamie Van Doren has always acknowledged Ellen as her inspiration for being a hot GGGMILF (great-great-grandma I'd like to fuck).

Rumor has it that George Cukor wanted Beulah Bondi to play Mary Haines, Ellen to play Sylvia Fowler and Elizabeth Patterson to play Crystal Allen in "The Women". When they couldn't get Lucille LaVerne to play Miriam Aarons, they decided to go with non-traditional casting.

Agnes Moorehead hated her.

Why are ANY of these people?

Silent movies?

SHUT YOUR FAT WHORE MOUTH, R10

Here's a pic from her rarely-seen color test for the role of Mildred Pierce.

Curtiz CLEARLY made a mistake hiring Crawford for the role!

Being a semi-butch lesbian didn’t help, and she came off as a limp wrist Nellie queen in many of her performances. The combo doesn’t help your career.

She preferred Joan Crawford's miserable snatch to mine...

No one disses my twat.

R13 = John Travolta

OP, have you spent the morning taking refreshments at the Baldwin Sisters ?

DaFuq is wrong with you, r10?

Ellen and Agnes Moorehead were the two front-runners for the role of Velma in Hush, Hush, but during the first script read-through, Aggie slipped under the table and brought Bette to a heaving, gasping orgasm and the part was hers.

Poor Ellen had to settle for playing one of the nosey, chattering biddies at the end of the film, but she nonetheless made an indelible impression during her brief cameo, prompting talk of a Supporting Oscar nod for less than 3 minute's screen time.

"Jewel Mayhew just went and dropped dead! And just what do you suppose brought it on? It was when she heard what happened here last night!"

R8, I thought he wanted Aline MacMahon for the Mary Haines role.

Ellen liked the stink fish

her face?