Movies with Ellen Corby
Movies found: 7, viewing from 1 to 7
Napoleon and Samantha
Genres: Adventure, Family, Drama
Starring: Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster, John Crawford, Henry Jones, Mary Wickes, Will Geer, Vito Scotti
Directors: Bernard McEveety
Country: USA
Year: 1972
11-year old Napoleon lives with his grandfather. He has a good friend who is a clown at a circus. When the clown returns to Europe, Napoleon takes care of lion Major. But the grandfather dies and Napoleon runs off with the lion and his friend Samantha.
Here Comes the Groom
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starring: Ian Wolfe, James Barton, Robert Keith, H.B. Warner, Alexis Smith, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman
Directors: Frank Capra
Country: USA
Year: 1951
Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones draws him back to Boston, complete with two adopted orphans to melt her heart. Too late! She's now engaged to rich, handsome Wilbur Stanley. And if Pete's not married within five days, he loses the kids. He'll have to work fast...
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Starring: Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, John Gallaudet, Ellen Corby, Marvin Kaplan, Lewis Stone, Jeff Richards
Directors: Clarence Brown
Country: USA
Year: 1951
A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. While she attempts to learn more about him for her column, he begins hearing the voice of an angel promising him help for the team if he will mend his ways. As he does so, an orphan girl who is a Pirates fan and has been praying for the team begins noticing angels on the ballfield. Sure enough, the Pirates start winning, and McGovern tries to turn his life around. But can he keep his temper long enough for the Pirates to win the NL pennant?
The Glass Bottom Boat
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Dom DeLuise, Rod Taylor, John McGiver, Doris Day, Elisabeth Fraser, Ellen Corby, Edward Andrews
Directors: Frank Tashlin
Country: USA
Year: 1966
Jennifer Nelson and Bruce Templeton meet when Bruce reels in her mermaid suit leaving Jennifer bottomless in the waters of Catalina Island. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her work (a research lab). Bruce hires Jennifer to be his biographer - only to try and win her affections. However, there's a problem. Bruce's friend General Wallace Bleeker believes that Jennifer is a Russian spy, and he has her placed under surveillance. Then, when Jennifer catches on...Watch Out!
Shane
Genres: Drama, Western
Starring: Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Ben Johnson, Elisha Cook Jr., Ellen Corby, Jean Arthur, Alan Ladd
Directors: George Stevens
Country: USA
Year: 1953
Shane rides into a conflict between cattleman Ryker and a bunch of settlers, like the Starretts, whose land Ryker wants. When Shane beats up Ryker's man Chris, Ryker tries to buy him. Then Shane and Joe take on the whole Ryker crew. Ryker sends to Cheyenne for truly evil gunslinger Wilson. We wonder about Shane's relation to Joe's wife Marian. Shane must clear out all the guns from the valley before he can ride off with Joey hollering "Shane ... Shane ... Come Back!"
Vertigo
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Starring: James Stewart, Henry Jones, Tom Helmore, Kim Novak, Raymond Bailey, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ellen Corby
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
Country: USA
Year: 1958
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Police detective John 'Scottie' Ferguson is asked by an old college friend, Gavin Elster, if he would have a look into his wife Madeleine's odd behavior. Lately, she's taken to believing that she is the reincarnation of a woman who died many years ago and Elster is concerned about her sanity. Scottie follows her and rescues her from an apparent suicide attempt when she jumps into San Francisco bay. He gets to know her and falls in love with her. They go to an old mission church and he is unable to stop her from climbing to the top of the steeple, owing to his vertigo, where she jumps to her death. A subsequent inquiry finds that she committed...
Sabrina
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Walter Hampden, Martha Hyer, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Ellen Corby, John Williams
Directors: Billy Wilder
Country: USA
Year: 1954
Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her -- "doesn't even know I exist" -- until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beaut...