Jessie Ralph
Acting
Born 1864-11-04
Died 1944-05-30
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
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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 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
Acting
54 credits
MGM Parade
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
Camille
Evelyn Prentice
The Bank Dick
The Good Earth
San Francisco
After the Thin Man
Drums Along the Mohawk
The Blue Bird
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Les Misérables
Mark of the Vampire
One Night of Love
Double Wedding
The Romance of Celluloid
Ann Carver's Profession
I Live My Life
Cafe Society
I Want a Divorce
Murder at the Vanities
We Live Again
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Child of Manhattan
St. Louis Blues
They Met in Bombay
Bunker Bean
Enchanted April
I Found Stella Parish
Cocktail Hour
Four Girls in White
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
The Lady from Cheyenne
Love Is a Headache
Hold That Kiss
The Girl from Avenue A
Jalna
The Affairs of Cellini
The Kid From Texas
Yellow Dust
Coming Out Party
Elmer, the Great
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Paris in Spring
Mickey the Kid
The Garden Murder Case
Walking on Air
Port of Seven Seas
Metropolitan
Nana
The Unguarded Hour
Star Dust
Such a Little Queen
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