Jessie Ralph
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 4, 1864
- Died
- May 30, 1944 (aged 79)
- Birthplace
- Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Ralph (born Jessie Ralph Chambers, November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures. She was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1864. She made her acting debut in 1880, at the age of sixteen. She made it to Broadway, where George M. Cohan cast her in many of his musicals, but she also excelled at dramatic roles. Although she made her Hollywood debut in 1916, in a motion picture career that would eventually span 25 years, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this time, so her roles were limited to matronly roles, but her expertise at stealing scenes captured the imagination of cinema-goers of the time. Her best-known roles are as Greta Garbo's maid in Camille, as W.C. Fields' battle-axe of a mother-in-law in The Bank Dick, as Myrna Loy's supercilious aunt Katherine in After the Thin Man, and as Nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield. She starred in 55 movies altogether, 52 between 1933 and 1941. Jessie Ralph retired from Hollywood in 1941, after her leg was amputated. She died four years later in her home town of Gloucester at the age of 79. She was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Filmography
MGM Parade
TV · as self · 1 ep
The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie · as Mrs. McGuinness
They Met in Bombay
Movie · as Duchess of Beltravers
The Bank Dick
Movie · as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
I Want a Divorce
Movie · as Grandma Brokaw
The Blue Bird
Movie · as Fairy Berylune
Star Dust
Movie · as Aunt Martha Parker
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Movie · as Mama McGann
The Girl from Avenue A
Movie · as Mrs. Van Dyne
Drums Along the Mohawk
Movie · as Mrs. Weaver
The Kid From Texas
Movie · as Aunt Minetta
Cafe Society
Movie · as Mrs. De Witt
Four Girls in White
Movie · as Miss Tobias
Mickey the Kid
Movie · as Veronica Hudson
St. Louis Blues
Movie · as Aunt Tibbie
Port of Seven Seas
Movie · as Honorine
Love Is a Headache
Movie · as Sheriff Janet Winfield
Hold That Kiss
Movie · as Aunt Lucy
Double Wedding
Movie · as Mrs. Kensington-Bly
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Movie · as The Duchess of Ebley
The Good Earth
Movie · as Cuckoo
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie · as Self
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Movie · as Applewoman
After the Thin Man
Movie · as Katherine Forrest
Camille
Movie · as Nanine
The Unguarded Hour
Movie · as Lady Agatha Hathaway
Bunker Bean
Movie · as Grandmother
Walking on Air
Movie · as Evelyn Bennett
Yellow Dust
Movie · as Mrs. Brian
The Garden Murder Case
Movie · as Mrs. Hammle
San Francisco
Movie · as Mrs. Maisie Burley
Les Misérables
Movie · as Madame Magloire
Captain Blood
Movie · as Mrs. Barlow
Enchanted April
Movie · as Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
Metropolitan
Movie · as Charwoman
I Found Stella Parish
Movie · as Nana
David Copperfield
Movie · as Clara Peggotty
Paris in Spring
Movie · as Countess de Charelle
Jalna
Movie · as Gran Whiteoaks
I Live My Life
Movie · as Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Movie · as Lady Mullion
Mark of the Vampire
Movie · as Midwife
Murder at the Vanities
Movie · as Mrs. Helene Smith
Evelyn Prentice
Movie · as Mrs. Blake
One Night of Love
Movie · as Angelina
The Affairs of Cellini
Movie · as Beatrice
We Live Again
Movie · as Matrona Pavlovna
Nana
Movie · as Zoe
Coming Out Party
Movie · as Nora
Elmer, the Great
Movie · as Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
Cocktail Hour
Movie · as Princess
Child of Manhattan
Movie · as Aunt Minnie
Ann Carver's Profession
Movie · as Terry
Such a Little Queen
Movie · as Mary
The Madonna of the Slums
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