[2] Born in New York City, she was the daughter of cellist Gregory Aller (né Grisha Altschuler), a Jewish emigre from the Russian Empire.
She performed the Cello Concerto by Erich Korngold for the soundtrack of the movie Deception starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid.
Eleanor also performed the concert premiere of the Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1946.
[4] Aller won a Grammy Award in 1958 as a member of the Hollywood String Quartet for Beethoven's Op.
[4] Aller continued to work as principal cellist for movie soundtracks, including a solo specially written for her by composer/conductor John Williams for the soundtrack to the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.