Jessie Ralph

Known for ActingBorn 1864-11-04Died 1944-05-30Gloucester, 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.Read more

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I Want a Divorce

Port of Seven Seas

Such a Little Queen

MGM Parade

Mickey the Kid

Metropolitan

The Girl from Avenue A

Cafe Society

St. Louis Blues

They Met in Bombay

I Found Stella Parish

After the Thin Man

Four Girls in White

Captain Blood

Child of Manhattan

Les Misérables

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

The Kid From Texas

Hold That Kiss

The Romance of Celluloid

Camille

Paris in Spring

Ann Carver's Profession

The Madonna of the Slums

Little Lord Fauntleroy

We Live Again

David Copperfield

I Live My Life

San Francisco

The Bank Dick

Love Is a Headache

Drums Along the Mohawk

Evelyn Prentice

Double Wedding

The Unguarded Hour

The Good Earth

Walking on Air

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Mark of the Vampire

Nana

Coming Out Party

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Blue Bird

The Lady from Cheyenne

Star Dust

The Garden Murder Case

One Night of Love

Murder at the Vanities