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Diane Ellis is a Actor American born on 20 december 1909 at Los Angeles (USA)
Diane Ellis (December 20, 1909 – December 15, 1930) was an American actress.
Ellis worked as a secretary for the "Film Research Bureau" before being cast in several films. She made her film debut in 1927 in Is Zat So? in a featured role, which was followed by a co-starring role opposite Louise Fazenda in Cradle Snatchers. She played the romantic lead opposite Buck Jones in Chain Lightning (1927). Happiness Ahead (1928) was a high profile release, starring the popular actresses Colleen Moore and Lilyan Tashman.
High Voltage (1929) was a box-office success and Ellis' first full talking picture. It is also notable as the first "talkie" made by Carole Lombard. Ellis's final film, Laughter (1930), featured her in a romantic triangle along with Fredric March and Nancy Carroll. It was the biggest role of her career, and the film won critical acclaim; later in life March cited it as one of the favorites of his films.
On October 14, 1930, Ellis married Stephen Caldwell Millett Jr. in France, and it was during their honeymoon in India that she fell ill with an infection, and died in Madras.
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 december 1909 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 15 december 1930 (at 20 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Birth 20 december 1909 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 15 december 1930 (at 20 years) at Chennai (Inde)
Ellis worked as a secretary for the "Film Research Bureau" before being cast in several films. She made her film debut in 1927 in Is Zat So? in a featured role, which was followed by a co-starring role opposite Louise Fazenda in Cradle Snatchers. She played the romantic lead opposite Buck Jones in Chain Lightning (1927). Happiness Ahead (1928) was a high profile release, starring the popular actresses Colleen Moore and Lilyan Tashman.
High Voltage (1929) was a box-office success and Ellis' first full talking picture. It is also notable as the first "talkie" made by Carole Lombard. Ellis's final film, Laughter (1930), featured her in a romantic triangle along with Fredric March and Nancy Carroll. It was the biggest role of her career, and the film won critical acclaim; later in life March cited it as one of the favorites of his films.
On October 14, 1930, Ellis married Stephen Caldwell Millett Jr. in France, and it was during their honeymoon in India that she fell ill with an infection, and died in Madras.
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Laughter (1930)
, 1h25Directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Fredric March, Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Glenn Anders, Diane Ellis, Leonard Carey
Roles Marjorie Gibson
Rating62%
Peggy is a Follies dancer who forsakes her life of carefree attachments in order to meet her goal of marrying a millionaire. Alas, her elderly husband, broker C. Morton Gibson, is a well-meaning bore, and soon Peggy begins seeking entertainment elsewhere.
High Voltage (1929)
, 1h3Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William Boyd, Carole Lombard, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Billy Bevan, Shannon Lee
Roles The Kid
Rating52%
Billie (Carole Lombard) is on a bus, being hauled in to face felony charges, by Detective Dan (Owen Moore). The bus gets stuck in a snowstorm; and, the passengers meet William Boyd, who is already holed up, in a church, waiting out the storm.
The Leatherneck (1929)
, 1h5Directed by Howard Higgin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, Alan Hale, Fred Kohler, Diane Ellis, Paul Weigel
Roles Tanya
Rating58%
In the 1920s three U.S. Marines who have deserted return to their base in Tientsin, China; one is dead, one is insane and one is court martialed. On the witness stand he relates their story from the end of World War I. Following the Armistice with Germany Pvt Calhoun temporarily frees a German Prisoner of War named Schmidt to go drinking with him. In the bar another Marine, Pvt Hanlon refuses to drink with a German; their brawl escalates into a fight with the Military Police where the three become friends. The German eventually migrates to the United States where he enlists in the Marines.
Happiness Ahead (1928)
, 1h20Directed by William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Colleen Moore, Edmund Lowe, Lilyan Tashman, Charles Sellon, Diane Ellis, Edythe Chapman
Roles Edna, Mary's Chum
Rating60%
Cradle Snatchers (1927)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Phillips, Ethel Wales, J. Farrell MacDonald, Franklin Pangborn, William B. Davidson
Roles Ann Hall
Rating61%
Chain Lightning (1927)
, 1hDirected by Lambert Hillyer
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buck Jones, Diane Ellis, William Welsh, Martin Faust
Roles Glory Jackson (as Dione Ellis)
Rating52%