Profile
Mary Ellis
Headliner + Metropolitan + Opposition
Female
Born
Jun 15, 1897
Hometown
New York City, Ne...
Died
Jan 30, 2003
Death Place
London, England
Other Names
May Belle Elsas
Mary Ellis was a long-lived star of the British stage best known for her roles in the genre of musical theatre. After appearing with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1918, later appearing opposite Enrico Caruso, she acted on Broadway, creating the… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1897
Birth
Ellis was born May Belle Elsas in New York City in 1897.
TWENTIES
1918
21 Years Old
She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918, in the world premiere of Puccini's Il trittico, creating the role of Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, the second of the evening's three one-act operas.
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1919
22 Years Old
She also appeared in the premiere of L'oiseau bleu by Albert Wolff, singing Mytyl, in 1919.
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1921
24 Years Old
On the Broadway stage, Ellis had the roles of street urchin and errand girl in Louis in 1921, the role of Nerissa in the 1922 production of Merchant of Venice and appeared during 1923 in Casanova with Katherine Cornell.
1924
27 Years Old
She gained additional notice by creating the title role in Rudolf Friml's operetta Rose Marie in 1924 and played in The Taming of the Shrew and The Crown Prince in 1927.
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1925
28 Years Old
She also played Leah in The Neighborhood Playhouse's 1925 adaptation of S.
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THIRTIES
1930
33 Years Old
In 1930 Ellis settled in London, having emigrated to England with her third husband, Basil Sydney, whom she had married in 1929.
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FORTIES
1937
40 Years Old
She also appeared in a film version of Glamorous Night in 1937.
FIFTIES
1947
50 Years Old
For most of the Second World War, Ellis abandoned the theatre, performing welfare work in hospitals, and from time to time giving concerts to entertain members of the armed forces. Returning to the stage after the war, Ellis was successful in Noël Coward's 1947 melodrama, Point Valaine, playing a hotel keeper in a sordid, clandestine relationship with an abusive West Indian.
1948
51 Years Old
In 1948 she gave one of her most praised performances as the embittered Millie Crocker-Harris in Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version.
1952
55 Years Old
In 1952 she played Volumnia in Coriolanus with Anthony Quayle for the nine-month Stratford season.
1954
57 Years Old
In 1954 Ellis was cast as Mrs. Erlynne in Coward's musical After the Ball, but her singing voice had deteriorated drastically, and much of her music had to be cut.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1960
63 Years Old
She appeared in the 1960 movie The Three Worlds of Gulliver and made her last stage appearance in 1970, playing Mrs Warren in Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.
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1982
85 Years Old
Ellis published her memoirs in 1982 under the title Those Dancing Years.
2003
106 Years Old
She died in London in 2003, aged 105.
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