Autographs of Mary Ellis
Mary Ellis (born May Belle Elsas; June 15, 1897 – January 30, 2003) was an American actress and singer who spent most of her career in Britain. Trained as a lyric soprano, she began performing at the Metropolitan Opera where she created the role of Genovieffa in the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica in 1918. In 1924, she originated the title role in Rudolf Friml's operetta Rose-Marie at Broadway's Imperial Theatre. Other Broadway parts included Shakespeare roles such as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.
After immigrating to England in 1930, Ellis performed in musicals in London's West End. She achieved enduring fame in the leading roles of the original productions of two Ivor Novello pieces: Glamorous Night (1935) and The Dancing Years (1938). After performing welfare work in hospitals during World War II, she returned to acting in London in plays by Noël Coward, Terence Rattigan and Shakespeare. She also worked in radio, television and film; including in The 3 Worlds of Gulliver in 1960. Her career spanned more than half a century of her 105-year-long life.
Ellis was born in Manhattan in New York City, to German parents, Herman Elsas and Caroline Elsas (née Reinhardt), who was a pianist. She first became interested in performing around 1910, and in a vocational course began to train her lyric soprano voice under the tutelage of Belgian contralto Freida de Goebele and Italian operatic coach Fernando Tanara.
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Traded items with a signature of Mary Ellis
The most expensive item with a signature of Mary Ellis (Accents on Opera Boris Goldovsky SIGNED Mary Ellis Peltz SIGNED 1953 HB Book) was sold in December 2025 for £58.50 while the cheapest item (Mary Ellis vintage signed postcard AFTAL#145) found a new owner for £0.99 in November 2018. The month with the most items sold (3) was April 2019 with an average selling price of £4.99 for an autographed item of Mary Ellis. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2016 with £40.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was April 2013. In average, an autographed item from Mary Ellis is worth £5.74.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Mary Ellis were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | MARY ELLIS (1897-2003) American Actress & Singer - The Magic Box etc Signed pic | £2.95 |  |
| MARY ELLIS (1897-2003) The Magic Box, The 3 Lives of Gulliver etc Signed pic | £5.99 | |
| MARY ELLIS - POPULAR AMERICAN ACTRESS - SIGNED VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH | £3.20 | |
| MARY ELLIS - Vintage Actress - d@105 - Sherlock Holmes etc signed card | £3.92 | |
| MARY ELLIS / ANNA LEE - VINTAGE ACTRESSES - SIGNED ALBUM PAGE | £8.00 | |
| Mary Ellis actress 5.5x3.5 B&W signed autographed photograph | £30.00 | |
| MARY ELLIS American Stage & Screen Actress - The Magic Box etc Signed pic | £4.95 | |
| Mary Ellis hand signed photograph 7 x 5 inch | £45.00 | |
 | MARY ELLIS in BELLA DONNA (1934) Hand-signed 8" x 10" portrait | £24.99 | |
| Mary Ellis Original 1930’s Autographed Sepia Postcard | £13.52 | |
| Mary Ellis vintage signed page/card | £4.99 | |
| Mary ELLIS-1897-2003- Wonderful American Operatic Soprano & Actress- signed Pic | £11.00 | |
| Original Hand Signed Autograph - Mary Ellis - Film 1930's - Signed 1941 | £2.95 | |
| SIGNED AUTOGRAPH PHOTO - Mary Ellis, American movie film cinema actress & singer | £4.99 | |
| SIGNED AUTOGRAPH PHOTO CARD - Mary Ellis, movie film cinema actress & singer | £4.99 | |
