
Jessie Ralph
Born November 4, 1864 · Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
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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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

David Copperfield

Camille

San Francisco

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Murder at the Vanities

The Blue Bird

One Night of Love

Evelyn Prentice

They Met in Bombay

The Bank Dick

I Live My Life

Les Misérables

Little Lord Fauntleroy

I Want a Divorce

The Garden Murder Case

I Found Stella Parish

The Kid From Texas

The Romance of Celluloid

The Affairs of Cellini

The Good Earth

Port of Seven Seas

Love Is a Headache

Four Girls in White

Metropolitan

The Lady from Cheyenne

Double Wedding

The Girl from Avenue A

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

Ann Carver's Profession

We Live Again

Elmer, the Great

Enchanted April

Star Dust

Cocktail Hour

Paris in Spring

Such a Little Queen

Hold That Kiss

Cafe Society

Walking on Air

Nana

The Unguarded Hour

The Madonna of the Slums

St. Louis Blues

Mickey the Kid

Child of Manhattan

Jalna

Yellow Dust

Coming Out Party




