<P> Although she had bit parts in more than 30 films in the 1930s and 1940s, including Babes in Toyland (1934) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), her first credited acting role was in RKO's Cornered (1945) in which she played a maid, followed by an uncredited brief speaking role as a kitchen cook in The Locket (1946). Corby began her career as a writer working on the Paramount Western Twilight on the Trail (1941). </P> <P> She received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a lovelorn aunt in I Remember Mama (1948). Over the next four decades, she worked in film and television, typically portraying maids, secretaries, waitresses, or gossips, often in Westerns, and had a recurring role as Henrietta Porter, a newspaper publisher, in Trackdown (1957--1959), starring Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman . In the episode entitled "The Vote", Henrietta Porter advocates for women's suffrage: "Women should have the right to vote . Women should be in politics . They can't do any worse than you men!" For her guest appearances in many Westerns, Corby in 1989 won a Golden Boot award . </P> <P> Corby appeared as the elderly Mrs. Lesh, the crooked car peddler, on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show . She guest - starred, as well, on Wagon Train, Cheyenne, Bewitched, Dragnet (several episodes), Rescue 8, The Restless Gun (two episodes), The Rifleman, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Fury, The Donna Reed Show, Frontier Circus, Hazel, I Love Lucy, Dennis the Menace, Tightrope, Bonanza, Meet McGraw, The Virginian, Channing, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Batman, Get Smart, Gomer Pyle, The Addams Family, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Invaders, Lassie, and Night Gallery . From 1965 to 1967, she had a recurring role in the NBC television series Please Don't Eat the Daisies, based on an earlier Doris Day film . </P> <P> Her best - known role came as Grandma Esther Walton on the made - for - TV film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971), which served as the pilot for The Waltons . Her husband, Zebulon Walton, was portrayed by actor Edgar Bergen in the film . Corby went on to resume her role on the weekly television series The Waltons . (She was the only adult actor from the original Homecoming pilot to carry her role over to the series .) Actor Will Geer played her husband in the series from 1972 until his death in 1978, at which time the character of Zebulon Walton was also buried . The series ran from 1972 to 1981, and resulted in six sequel films . For her work in The Waltons, she gained three Emmy Awards and three more nominations as Best Supporting Actress . She also won a Golden Globe award for best supporting actress in a TV series for the show The Waltons, and was nominated another three times . She left the show early in 1977, owing to a massive stroke she had suffered on 10 November 1976, which impaired her speech and severely limited her mobility and function . She returned to the series during the final episode of the 1977--78 season, with her character depicted as also recovering from a stroke . </P>

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