Eleanor Aller

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Eleanor Aller (Slatkin) (b 1917 - October 12, 1995) was a world-reknown cellist and founding member (with her husband, Felix Slatkin) of the Hollywood String Quartet.

Daughter of cellist Gregory Aller (nee Grisha Altschuler), Aller was principal cellist in the Twentieth Century Fox Studio Orchestra in 1939 when she met and married Slatkin. Shortly after their marriage, the couple founded the Hollywood String Quartet. Aller also continued working as a Hollywood studio musician. After Slatkin's death in 1963, in addition to her work with orchestras for movies, Aller played in orchestras for recordings done by Frank Sinatra, who had become a family friend over the years.

Aller continued to work as principle cellist for movie soundtracks, including a solo especially written for her by composer/conductor John Williams for the soundtrack to the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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