Diane Ellis 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

Louise Fazenda

Louise Fazenda was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.-Early life:Of Portuguese ancestry, she was born in Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker. After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent...

 in The Cradle Snatchers. She played the romantic lead opposite Buck Jones

Buck Jones

Buck Jones was an American motion picture star of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, best known for his work starring in many popular western movies...

 in Chain Lightning (1927). Happiness Ahead (1928) was a high profile release, starring the popular actresses Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...

 and Lilyan Tashman

Lilyan Tashman

Lilyan Tashman was a Brooklyn-born Jewish American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the bitchy 'other woman'...

.

High Voltage

High Voltage (1929 film)

High Voltage is an American film, released by Pathé and directed by Howard Higgin.The film stars William Boyd, Carol Lombard, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, and Billy Bevan....

(1929) was a box-office success and Ellis' first full talking picture. It is also notable as the first "talkie" made by Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s...

. Ellis's final film, Laughter (1930), featured her in a romantic triangle along with Fredric March

Fredric March

Fredric March was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr...

 and Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll was an American actress.-Career:She was christened Ann Veronica Lahiff in New York City. Of Irish parentage, she and her sister once performed a dancing act in a local contest of amateur talent. This led her to a stage career and then to the screen. She began her acting career in...

. 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

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, and it was during their honeymoon in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 that she fell ill with an infection, and died in Madras.

Sources

• Ott, Frederick W., The Films of Carole Lombard, The Citadel Press, 1972, ISBN 0-8065-0278-9
• Quirk, Lawrence J., The Films of Fredric March, The Citadel Press, 1974, ISBN 0-8065-0413-7

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