Obituaries
Ellen Corby, who won three Emmys for playing the strong grandmother on the hit 1970s series “The Waltons,” has died at the age of 87.
April 17, 1999
Archives
* Re Ellen Corby (obituary, April 17): In late 1969, Ellen Corby and I, along with 120 others, spent some months in the jungles of the Himalayan foothills near Rishikesh, India, becoming teachers of Transcendental Meditation.
April 28, 1999
Television
Entertainment & Arts
The West Hollywood Library has received a $5,000 donation from actress Ellen Corby.
April 15, 1993
Movies
Pat Buttram will emcee the seventh annual Golden Boot Awards for Western film achievements Aug. 5 at the Registry in Universal City.
July 11, 1989
The Family Channel celebrates Mother’s Day Sunday with six maternal-theme hours of the mother of all family series, “The Waltons.”
May 9, 1993
Put on your bell-bottoms and mile-high shoes!
Sept. 1, 1991
Thomas Wolfe was wrong: You can go home again. OK, maybe not to your home.
Nov. 21, 1993
Read Edwin Schallert’s 1939 review of “Gone With the Wind”
Dec. 13, 1939
The new fall Retro season is chalk full of old favorites , ranging from the high-flying “The Adventures of Superman” to the homey comfort of “The Waltons” to the irreverence of “Late Night With David Letterman” to the brain-teasing “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries.”
Sept. 8, 1991