Career
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). was a high profile release, starring the popular actresses Colleen Moore and Lilyan Tashman. was a box-office success and Ellis" first full talking picture.
lieutenant 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. On October 14, 1930, Ellis married Stephen Caldwell Millett Junior. in France, and it was during their honeymoon in India that she fell ill with an infection, and died in Madras.
