Ellen Corby Autographs
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. She performed in over 200 films and television series from the 1930s to the 1990s. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948).
Ellen Hansen was born in Racine, Wisconsin, to immigrant parents from Denmark. She grew up in Philadelphia. An interest in amateur theater while in high school led her to Atlantic City in 1932, where she briefly worked as a chorus girl. She moved to Hollywood that same year, and got a job as a script girl. at RKO Studios and Hal Roach Studios, where she often worked on Our Gang comedies, alongside her future husband, cinematographer Francis Corby. She held that position for the next 12 years and took acting lessons on the side.
Although she had bit parts in more than 30 films in the 1930s and 1940s, including Babes in Toyland (1934), The Dark Corner (1946) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), her first credited acting role was in RKO's Cornered (1945) in which she played a maid, followed by an uncredited brief speaking role as a kitchen cook in The Locket (1946). Corby began her career as a writer at Paramount studios working on the Western Twilight on the Trail (1941).
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Traded items with a signature of Ellen Corby
The most expensive item with a signature of Ellen Corby (Ellen Corby Signed Autographed Photo With COA The Waltons RARE Grandma Walton) was sold in July 2026 for $450.00 while the cheapest item (Ellen Corby Signed Autographed Auto Index Card The Waltons - TCCCX) found a new owner for $1.04 in March 2023. The month with the most items sold (4) was June 2026 with an average selling price of $185.85 for an autographed item of Ellen Corby. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in July 2026 with $280.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $6.00 was September 2010. In average, an autographed item from Ellen Corby is worth $34.75.
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