Ellen Corby--Rare 1976 TV Interview, Grandma Walton
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- Veteran character actress Ellen Corby, an Oscar nominee for "I Remember Mama" and three-time Emmy winner as the beloved grandma on "The Waltons," discusses her life and career in this rare TV interview from 1976.
Whenever I hear the theme of the Waltons, I feel transported back to the simplicity of my childhood in the 1970s.
The Walton's reminded me of how i was raised when I grew up back in the 50,s
@@patweeks4811 you're so lucky if you grew up like the Walton's. I'm mean times were hard but the kids were raised with much love and understanding.
Me too. Wish I could go back to the '70s. This world is getting so crazy I just want to go back.
Same here
When I'm bored at work, I daydream about the same thing all the time. Check out an old Hollies song called "Not That Way At All".
I’m 56, and miss these shows so much. They played a role in who I am today. The Waltons, The Andy Griffith Show, Little House on the Prairie, and even The Johnny Carson Show.....they were clean, and uplifted and made our country better. Today, just about everything on T.V. is total trash. How we took all that for granted. I miss them all! -Stephen, Ohio
Buckeye Bushcrafter you said more than a mouth full, tv today will never be what it was.
Amen
I agree, The Waltons was feel good tv that left you happy unlike the general negative stuff of today.
Buckeye Bushcrafter ...well said Buckeye.
Agreed
Thank Mr Carson for not rushing or interrupting Ellen Corby's interview--very respectful. 💯👍💞
Best Grand-ma on television ---EVER!!!! She resonated with us all. She was everyone's Grand-ma.
So feisty. But you knew there was discipline in that house.
I love her so much .She was so much like my man .She's my tv grandma
I disagree. She was a mean grandma in The Waltons.
@@m.e.d.7997 is she still alive
@@robertwinters9826 Ellen Corby died. Will Geer and John Waite. The kids and Michael Learned are living.
This was from May 26, 1976. Sadly, five-and-a-half months later, Ellen Corby suffered a stroke that kept her off "The Waltons" until her comeback in March 1978
I’m 28, grew up watching Walton’s with my mom and dad. Now I watch it with my son ❤️
Love grandma Walton
It's great that you're watching with your son. The show has so much to teach, so many character building lessons. I watched the show (original airings) as a kid with my Pawpaw (that's what we called a grandfather in West Virginia) and it's some of my fondest memories of childhood.
I love Ellen Corby. Grew up watching The Waltons, I'm 53 yrs now and I still love watching this show. Luckily its still in re-runs on TV.
I like the values of The Walton's.
It IS a great show, not hammed up like little house. I remember being in 5th grade and we kids would laugh about the show - g'night John boy etc. We knocked the show but I for one had never really watched it till adulthood
Joanne Léger I’m 56, and I feel the same way. -Stephen, Ohio
Love Ellen Corby, too. I used to make fun of the series, too, when I was a kid. When I got older, I was really hooked. Beautiful scripts, music. And the acting is superb. The series is on Amazon now.
Roman Katz I get to watch the Walton's Monday thru Friday on INSP which is channel 259 on DishNetwork.
This is before her stroke had taken her speech. What a treasure.
Great actress. Versatile. She had a stroke in November of 1976. I gave her credit for coming back on the show post-stroke. The silencing of Ellen Corby was felt on the show but at least we had her presence back for a time.
What a wonderful video tribute. She sure was a treasure. She was funny too! Her role on The Waltons kind of turned me off as I remember (as a wee child) she seemed so serious and severe. That was just a role though. She seemed like a lady I wish I could have known.
i remember her stroke in 1976 and her struggle to regain her speech on and off the show. we all "felt" for grandma walton/ellen corby. she was a great actress and i still enjoy the walton reruns today.a clean show w/o f and mf bombs every 3rd breath like some of today's tv shows.
@Nor Cal Y And you are proof being a prick isn't hard.
@Nor Cal Y So are you acting like an a__hole or does it just come natural?
When hosts let the guest talk. Love it.
Bless her heart. This is phenomenal. 40+ years later and I still love them and Grandma. It's trying times right now during the pandemic and reruns provide a diversion to the difficulties of the situation. May she Rest In Peace.
Also remember that she was in It's a Wonderful Life.
She was a crack Snacker
Judy Norton who played Mary Ellen Walton has a channel here on TH-cam where she talks about all sorts of things that have to do with the show and interviews the rest of the Walton family as well. It's great to watch and get to converse with her now and then. I believe her channel name is Judy Norton. I hope you get a chance to watch.
I love this actress, don't care what her sexual preference was .
This is a particularly significant interview. It took place in May 1976; Corby suffered a stroke in the fall of that year. Great to see her looking and communicating well here. I’d actually not seen an interview with her before this. Great post.
Yes,and she did an amazing job when she came back to the show after her stroke
I loved the waltons. She was so perfect for part of grandma.
I don't know why Miss Ellen popped up in my recommends all of a sudden, but I have to thank ME-TV for reshowing The Waltons. I've been watching every day at noon and enjoying it all over again. What a great film-quality show about real people and real genuine human sentiment. Ellen Corby and Will Geer were perfection. Such a great, healing, soothing thing to watch during these awful times in our country.
So intelligent, articulate, and heartfelt.
Many of the old actresses were. Listen to Bette Davis speak. Such beauty. Not the rubbish thats spoken today
Johnny Carson & Ellen Corby were class acts all the way. Cheers!
I'm 53 and watched The Walton's. That show made me into the person who I am today. Ellen Corby always had some wisdom to share on the show through her character of Grandma. Thank you, Ellen!
RIP, Ellen Corby. What an inspiration.
Ellen Corby was a genuinely warm,versatile humanitarian,never a prude,shallow or superficially minded actress.Her incredible resourcefulness and natural affability went way beyond most of her era expected anyone to achieve.The Waltons showed some of Ellen's sharpest and best ever acting moment's. Ellen lived life and though confident, she was never complacent. Her relatable experiences showed her own dark moment's throughout her illustrious acting career.
She's such a gem of a woman. I'm so happy I got to see this interview! She was a great lady may she RIP. 🙏🌹♥️🕊️
Growing up having Grandparents whom had already passed on, Grandpa and Grandma Walton were the next best thing. Loved them both! ❤
Why are some commenters worried about if Ellen Corby was a lesbian? Who cares. Lol... this woman was a phenomenal actress. I truly loved her as the grandma on The Waltons. She played that role to perfection.
i guess they don't know that grandpa walton was gay also,still loved him like he was my own grandpa!
@@ibelivinu1
They were both bisexual. I don't think it makes a difference but it's still interesting.
@@bentleyr00d don't give a damn, they were exceptional actors love their skills!
@Chuck blankenship seriously! chuck!
@Chuck blankenship her personal life is not your business chuck,grow up and get a life!
Wonderful to see her , thank you.
She was such a treasure.
Ellen Corby is an American Treasure. I loved that woman on the Walton's. It was the only time the whole family would sit down and watch something together. Yes even Mom and DAD.
Ellen Corby was so real and down to earth. Such an amazing actress!
She's from my home state of Wisconsin. In Racine, which is a suburb of Milwaukee, WI.
The Waltons was a great lesson for all of us to see how a family survived the hard years of
the post-depression era of the 1930’s and 40’s. These simple life’s lessons are so needed today
Simple, yet remarkably beautiful! Compared to how people in the family interact or engage through their phones always in hand.
The great depression was between 1929- 1942, the start of war word 2
She lived an amazing life despite her stroke. Lived well into her 90’s.
Wikipedia says she past at age 87.
All the people in Ellen Corby generation is a treasure because they worked and lived through hard times and it shows us not to take life for granted and to live life full but with MORAL INTEGRITY AND THE AMERICAN WAY.
What an actress! They don't come like that anymore. She's played with the greats. Her film history is extraordinary.
Loved her short role in Harriet Craig, and she was lovable in the movie Caged.
RIP Ellen.
I was a city girl and my family LOVED The Waltons. We watched every episode; the same for The Andy Griffith Show, Danny Thomas, Donna Reed and other shows that were well written and didn't give you nightmares the way today's shows do.
Such a classy person. I loved Ellen Corby in everything she's done. I miss so many elements of our past.
Ms. Corby's performance as Aunt Trina in the 1948 film "I Remember Mama" moves me deeply every time I see it. Just brilliant.
Decades channel had a marathon showing of "The Waltons" last weekend. So wonderful to rediscover the entertainment of your youth, only now you identify with the older characters!
So down to earth...nothing fake about her. She truly sounds like a "Grandma". Would loved to have been around her 💙
Listen to what this lady says young folks.
We just bought the complete set of The Waltons and best $259 we have spent . Truly a family show and Christian values . Money well spent.
She was a wonderful actress and an even more interesting woman, I can tell after watching this interview.
Her best performance was as the Irene Dunne’s old maid sister in “I Remember Mama.” Great movie, must see. One of George Stevens’ best. She’s a fine comedian.
Good movie
@@robynowen2583 I will try to watch that soon!
Constant Reader oh yes indeed. I agree.
Do you remember her in
"It's A Wonderful Life "
I never heard of that movie I'm going to have to look it up.
I never realized how cosmopolitan she was! Charming story!
I watch the Waltons everyday on Hallmark, love grandma ❤️
What a beautiful woman and still watch the Waltons
It was heart breaking when she had her stroke
She had a stroke in November 1976 from which she recovered and returned to her role on The Waltons in March 1978.
Well she never really got her voice back and still had some paralysis throughout her body!
A bittersweet return to the show; her first episode returning from her stroke was Will Geer's (Grandpa) final performance.
Not quite....
Ellen was a very versatile actress she could also play bad characters too,she guest starred on the Andy Griffith show as a car hustler who sold Barney a lemon,and played a pick pocket on Gomer Pyle USMC .
marc dewey also was with don knots again in the ghost and mr chicken.
Mrs. Lesh!?
I had forgotten that
Also as a judge in the old Joey Bishop show with Joe Besser of The Three Stooges fame.
I also remember Ellen Corby playing the role of Humphrey Bogart's secretary in the movie "Sabrina" starring Audrey Hepburn.
Oh, she was lovely! lOl, I love her story about the cab!!! Rest in Peace, Ellen🌹
its so nice to see older actresses like this. so hard to see that nowadays on tv shitty shows. all those plastic looking women ...all young. hollywood doesnt have old people !
Because they've all had Botox injections, and wear enough makeup to paint a large canvas... Hahaha!
Betty White
Ellen Corby, As Grandma Walton, she was fantastic. But don't overlook all the other great stuff she did!! What a talent she had?
May God Bless Her, & RIP. Wyo, Robert, 🙏🙏💯💯🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🎭🎭🌈🌈
She is lovely. Very sweet that she loved her dress so she wore it. Before everyone wore something new at every event.
she was an awesome grandma on the waltons I'm watching the show now I feel like I have a grandma when I watch the show since I don't have my grandparents anymore
Loved the Waltons reminded me of my mom and dad who were depression Era parents they are gone now 😢💔died 14 days apart in 2002 in July!!
She was a Lovely Woman
She worked with James Stewart (and for Hitchcock!) in "Vertigo," Joan Crawford in "Harriet Craig" (in which she was a nervous maid) and "The Caretakers" (as a mental patient) and in "Caged" and "I Remember Mama," among many others. "The Waltons" was just a very sweet cherry on top of a sundae sort of very busy career.
Yes, in "Caged". I thought she was an inmate. Such a good actress.
Ms. Corby was participant and witness to major 20th century cinema.
@@Elle-mq8ij Great character actress. She always worked.
Harriet Craig was a good movie
MovieJon she also had a very small part in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” She was the little lady in the bank that Jimmy Stewart kissed because she only asked for a little bit of money.
I am also 53. Love Ellen Corby. I also love and miss ronnie claire edwards. Rest in peace both Ellen and ronnie😌
Ronnie added immensely to the show.
I agree ... also adding "the Baldwin Sisters" to this list of great ladies contributing immensely to the show! 💞
Johnny handled the interview so well. He made the most of what she gave him...
She reminds me so much of my Grandma. A legend!
I absolutely loved that story she told. The world has changed so much. Some people still live that way and that are good things, but overall I just really get disheartened. I’m 32 years old as of this writing and I get told ok boomer and all sorts of nonsense. My wife and I don’t even watch new tv shows. The most recent thing we watched was Longmire. Just longing for how the world was.
One of the most talented persons in film and tv. I remember her from so many old movies and tv . Talented lady and lovely person.
One of my favorite Ellen Corby lines comes from Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life"....."Can I have $17.50?" Wonderful character actress. Ranks with the best.
Oh my goodness I didn’t know that was her! One of my favorite movies of all time!!!! Thank you for that info
Oh the ending bank run...
Wise Woman Rest in peace
Beautiful woman! Her personal life is her business, wonderful actress!
Ellen Hansen Corby (June 3, 1911 - April 14, 1999) was an American actress and screenwriter. 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).
I love watching the reruns of the Waltons...Grandma was a great grandma
She was such a sweet lady. Miss her. Waltons were blessed to have her
Ellen Corby and Edgar Bergin had been in a movie, "I Remember Mama", in 1948.
Corby had played shy Aunt Trina, and Bergin had played Peter Thorkelson, a sincere, shy, awkward young man who'd married her character. I often wonder what it had been like, being cast as husband and wife, AGAIN, so many years later. GOOD MOVIE!
Ellen was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress) and received a Golden Globe for that movie.
Edgar Bergen*
Ellen really loved wearing that dress as she wore it at the Emmys the year before ( 1975) when she won best supporting Actress in a Drama
It was her good luck charm :)
Loved when she called The Walton cast her family.
Hey, it's Hubcaps Lesch!!!!! Ellen was truly a classy lady and I always held her in high regard along with Thelma Ritter, both ladies are a national treasure....
Why in the world do people click “unlike” on this kind of video?
Because they don't like it?!!
Ignorant
It’s not so much the video but the ignorance in the comments. Older people have their experience but sometimes they could stand to learn from the next generations. Bible thumpers aren’t the only moral people in the world.
@@Garkenrat actually they are, who would want to learn anything from crazy later generations
What a beautiful lady... shes so kind hearted, lovable human being! Great actress... Miss her !
She said she went on most trips alone ...and I figured she took her live in love ...can't remember the lady's name, but they were together 45 years.
You can tell that Miss Corby is a very sweet & humble lady. Loved her on "The Waltons"!
I love love love the Walton's! I think all the cast members was absolutely amazing and talented
Love this! Loved Ellen Corby on the Walton's, and she seems like such a wonderfully creative, fun woman. It was great seeing the Walton's episodes with Belulah Bondi as Martha Corrine. Both she and Ellen Corby were in It's a Wonderful Life together.
Best family made program ever. Mrs Ellen Corby played a good role as grandma on the Walton's.
She was a wonderful actress. I remember a lot of her appearances on "Dragnet", with Jack Webb.
Great actress Humble woman ! Fun Fact: Miss Corby was in March of the Wooden Soldiers! Non - credited ! RIP inspirational actress and Woman! Lurch's Mom Too!
Wonderful actress.
I loved and always looked forward for the new episodes of the Waltons. Thanks
What a neat lady!
Ellen Corby also starred in the movie ‘I Remember Mama’. Ms. Corby was really good in this classic movie. Comes on TCM every Mother’s Day.
Her careacter on the Waltons was so much like my oun grand ma ! It brings me to a good place in my life
They should have a class in high school where they study the Waltons . Family values and the history time line.
The trouble is the schools today want to eliminate traditional values!
With the way marriages last now days, elementary school would not be a bad idea.
Should be at home and school but that isn’t happening anymore. There are no completely wholesome shows on tv anymore.
@@Lava1964 if eliminating traditional values means not preaching all that one man one woman garbage then I’m all for it. Let people be who they are and love them regardless. Traditional values and the “ideals” that follow are usually a big pile of BS. Traditional values should mean kindness and compassion towards all human beings no matter their sex, creed, or religion.
you want the make believe hollywood family values.... ellen corby comes over as a lovely lady and will geer came over as a great man... now those spouting traditional family values dont normally like the lifestyles of both grandma and grandpa walton - both gay and even worse in will's case a- a commie.shock horror. take people as they are and dont judge
she's so wholesome in a comforting way.
She was great! Had that period of history down! RIP! Blesdings and prayers to her family!
DOESN'T ANYBODY REMEMBER ELLEN WAS ONE OF JIMMY STEWARTS CUSTOMERS AT THE BANK AND LOAN IN "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE"?
Mrs. Davis: "Could I have seventeen-fifty?
" I only learned that was her a few months ago...after seeing the movie dozens of times over the years.
@@mikeirelan This great lady was in many movies, guest spots on TV series as the old lady. Many westerns even Little House on the Prairie.
A truly great lady and actress, the perfect Grandma Walton, one of a kind. She also appeared in many memorable roles in movies and on TV including Batman. Thanks for the many memories of your great performances, you will always be remembered. RIP
So nice to see Ellen
I absolutely love this sweet lady. I’m 52 and my fiancé bought me the waltons so I can watch anytime I want to.
I remember her brief appearance in "It's a Wonderful Life," when she gets a grateful kiss from Jimmy Stewart.
Great interview and thank you for the upload.
In 1974, I had the privilege of running errands for a rather informal high school theater arts 'organization' (devised by an outgoing student who basically shmoozed his way into the studios by networking and making phone calls). His efforts enabled teen students to experience behind-the-scenes at The Burbank Studios, NBC, and other places. One day, he and I had the pleasure of running into Richard Thomas behind the set of the Walton's living room. He was still in wardrobe, snacking on French fries. Quickly wiping his hands on his coveralls, he cheerfully greeted us and welcomed us on set. Nicest young man, maybe a couple years older than my friend and I. We later returned to the set and happened to hit the cast and crew going on break. Will Geer (He was a mountain of a man to me then) and Ellen Corby passed by us with the rest of the cast. We were awe struck, but respected their 'space', as is the etiquette at the studios. Amazing day.
Great lady, actress & advice! ❤️
Wow love Walton used to watch them in 70 my time have changed over year they don't make show like that anymore
I felt so much for her when I was maybe 4 years old. I still feel for her when I am 50 years old today. She was and still is part of my life and almost a family member to me.
I saw her discomfort with her finger play and other body language. I can only understand and that is why I saw.
She is Grandma to me.
Saw that too about her fingers!
im 66 and i miss these shows too. thankyou soo much
I loved Ellen Corby as grandma Walton
Ellen Corby was the perfect Grandma Walton I still watch her and the rest of the Walton 's everyday
thank you so much for this clip! it's hard finding old analogue TV interviews 😃
i miss the great old shows like the waltons!
and i miss when talk shows were sincere, with real interviews, instead of nowdays when everyone is 'trying' to be funny! and just come off annoying.
and johnnie carson treated his guests with respect, gave them the spotlight, and if their was a joke, he was sure that it was on him, and not making fun of the guest. and he actually shuts up and lets the guests talk, unlike talk show hosts today!
Nowadays everybody bullies everybody. Absolutely no respect today. I love yesteryear!
Started watching The Walton’s as a kid and continue to watch it still on Amazon Prime. I always thought it was amazing how miss Ellen even came back to the show after her stroke.
Mike , Merve and Johnny would actually let thier guests talk.
You are so right. Johnny Carson was so gracious to his guests. He roared at their jokes and invited them back. You could always tell if he liked someone. He would tell them, you are a good guest, come back soon.
Born in 82 and I can not miss an episode on MeTV !
Omg she is such a classic. Loved watching her all my life
I love watching the Waltons. I’ve been watching them for years and Grandma Walton was my grandma too . I’m still watching the Waltons. Best Family Show Ever . Real Life Down To Earth Family. 🙋♀️🙏🙌♥️😘.
My very first time ever to see this amazing actress in a normal environment and wearing a lovely normal (not in costume) dress. She and Grandpa Greer were the best!
May she rest in peace. Amen 🙏 She was a great actress . Loved the Walton's.
love grandma
Chris Canale so did I. Love you Elle.
She was really pretty and her smile is lovely. I love the Walton's.
She played the crooked old lady who sold Barney Fife that 1954 Ford Lemon! Great actress.
yes, one of many examples of her presence on the small screen during the 60s.
And she referred to him as a "boob", as well. Or a "sucker", I forget which.
@Justin Hill I remember now! She said on the stand that "Luther" had a "vivid imagination."
Humphrey Bogarts secretary in Sabrina.