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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 191...
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.
Movies (Cast)
San Francisco
Captain Blood
Enchanted April
Star Dust
Les Misérables
Bunker Bean
Jalna
Cocktail Hour
Nana
David Copperfield
Child of Manhattan
The Good Earth
Evelyn Prentice
Four Girls in White
We Live Again
Camille
Elmer, the Great
St. Louis Blues
The Lady from Cheyenne
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Paris in Spring
Hold That Kiss
One Night of Love
Ann Carver's Profession
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mark of the Vampire
The Garden Murder Case
The Blue Bird
The Kid From Texas
I Found Stella Parish
Love Is a Headache
The Affairs of Cellini
Murder at the Vanities
The Unguarded Hour
The Bank Dick
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
They Met in Bombay
After the Thin Man
Double Wedding
I Live My Life
Cafe Society
Coming Out Party
Yellow Dust
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Walking on Air
Series (Cast)
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