Actress (born Ellen Hansen); Born in Racine, WI; Films: Twilight on the Trail, Cornered, The Spiral Staircase, The Locket, It's a Wonderful Life, The Dark Corner, Crack-up, Bedlam, They Won't Believe Me, Happy's Holiday, Born to Kill, I Remember Mama, Fighting Father Dunne, The Dark Past, A Woman's Secret, Rusty Saves a Life, Madame Bovary, Captain China, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town, Harriet Craig, The Gunfighter, Edge of Doom, Caged, On Moonlight Bay, Here Comes the Groom, Angels in the Outfield, The Big Trees, The Woman They Almost Lynched, Shane, Monsoon, About Mrs. Leslie, Susan Slept Here, Sabrina, Illegal, Stagecoach to Fury, Slightly Scarlet, The Seventh Sin, Night Passage, Vertigo, Macabre, Visit to a Small Planet, Pocketful of Miracles, Saintly Sinners, The Strangler, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Night of the Grizzly, The Glass Botton Boat, The Gnome-Mobile, The Legend of Lylah Clare, A Fine Pair, Support Your Local Gunfighte, Napoleon and Samantha; Television Series: Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Waltons; Episodic: I Love Lucy, G.E. Summer Originals, The Tab Hunter Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Mr. Terrific, Pride of the Family; Movies: A Tattered Web, The Homecoming, A Christmas Story, The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd, A Wedding on Walton's Mountain, A Day of Thanks on Walton's Mountain, A Walton Walton Thanksgiving Reunion, A Walton Wedding; Awards: Emmy Award, Best Supporting Actress, The Waltons, 1973, 1975 and 1976. Nomination, Best Supporting Actress, Academy Awards and Golden Globe Award for I Remember Mama.

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[Source: Wisconsin Film Office (filmwisconsin.org)]