Esther Ralston (September 17th, 1902- January 14th, 1994) was an American silent film star.
She began her career as a child actress in a family vaudeville act named “The Ralston Family with Baby Esther, America’s Youngest Juliet”. She then went on to appear in a few small silent film roles, including one alongside her brother in the 1920 film adaptation of Huckleberry Finn. Ralston gained attention as Mrs. Darling in the 1924 film adaptation of Peter Pan.
Her most well known sound picture was To the Last Man in 1933.
Esther Ralston Biography / Wiki
Name | Esther Ralston |
Also Know | |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Bar Harbor, Maine, USA |
Date of Birth | 1902-09-17 |
Age(as in 2022) | 91 |
Deathday | 1994-01-14 |
Esther Ralston Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Shadows of the Orient | Viola Avery | 1937-08-18 | A classic “B” featurette about “smugglin’ in Chinamen for $300 a load”… |
After the Ball | Elissa Strange | 1932-12-01 | The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier…. |
Forced Landing | Ruby Anatole | 1935-12-02 | In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cac… |
The Sawdust Paradise | Hallie | 1928-06-28 | She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then … |
The American Venus | Mary Gray | 1926-01-31 | A lost film – Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray’s most competit… |
The Spotlight | Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova | 1927-11-19 | Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical produc… |
Black Beauty | Leila Lambert | 1933-04-01 | Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured rac… |
The Case of Lena Smith | 1929-01-29 | A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are kn… | |
Figures Don’t Lie | Janet Wells | 1927-10-08 | Figures Don’t Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetch… |
Half a Bride | Patience Winslow | 1928-06-16 | Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn’t love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new hu… |
Fashions for Women | Céleste de Givray and Lola Dauvry | 1927-03-26 | Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an attentio… |
Love and Learn | Nancy Blair | 1928-01-14 | In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition’s scheme to ruin Cowles’ reputation. At the risk of h… |
Ten Modern Commandments | Kitty O’Day | 1927-07-27 | A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer…. |
Pure and Simple | 1922-01-01 | Pure and Simple is a 1922 silent film… | |
Lonely Wives | Madeline Smith | 1931-02-22 | A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours. Live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line…. |
Rome Express | Asta Marvelle | 1932-10-31 | The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome…. |
To the Last Man | Ellen Colby | 1933-09-15 | In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Neva… |
Womanhandled | Molly Martin | 1925-12-27 | Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can’t resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to h… |
We’re in the Legion Now | Louise Rillette | 1936-12-13 | Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion…. |
$50,000 Reward | Carolyn Jordan | 1924-12-02 | Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be reg… |
Beggar on Horseback | Cynthia Mason | 1925-06-05 | Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the … |
Old Ironsides | Esther | 1926-12-06 | An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution–a.k.a. “Old Ironsides”–against the Barbary pirates then terrorizi… |
A Kiss for Cinderella | Fairy Godmother | 1925-12-22 | An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie…. |
The Prodigal | Antonia Farraday | 1931-02-21 | An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family…. |
The Mighty | Louise Patterson | 1929-11-16 | In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that thei… |
Children of Divorce | Jean Waddington | 1927-04-25 | A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn’t marry her for fear the marriage would end… |
The Lucky Devil | Doris McDee | 1925-07-13 | Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called ‘hoodoo’ bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner’… |
Betrayal | Vroni | 1929-05-11 | André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds hersel… |
The Wheel of Life | Ruth Dangan | 1929-06-15 | British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat d… |
The Quarterback | Louise Mason | 1926-10-11 | Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twe… |
Crossing Trails | Helen Stratton | 1921-11-23 | Helen, wrongly suspected of murder, escapes to the refuge of Jim’s Ranch, where love soon blooms…. |
The Best People | Alice O’Neil | 1925-11-09 | Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry “within their class”. They, however, have different… |
Blinky | Mary Lou Kileen | 1923-08-17 | Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. “Raw Meat” Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous milita… |
The Marines Are Coming | Dorothy Manning | 1934-11-19 | Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel lea… |
Streamline Express | Elaine Vincent | 1935-09-15 | A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he in… |
The Mysterious Pilot | Vivian McNain | 1937-12-09 | Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowden… |
Slander House | Ruth De Milo | 1938-10-04 | Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous hus… |
Together We Live | Jenny | 1935-08-16 | A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement i… |
The Victor | Chewing gum baron’s daughter | 1923-06-01 | In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Once… |
The Spy Ring | Jean Bruce (as Jane Carleton) | 1938-01-08 | Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the… |
Romance in the Rain | Gwen de la Rue | 1934-08-13 | The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a “Cinderella and Prince Charming” contest…. |
The Rivals | 1923-12-31 | A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Ralston…. | |
The Blind Goddess | Moira Devens | 1926-04-04 | Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man’s roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his d… |
The Trouble With Wives | Dagmar | 1925-09-28 | William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but h… |
The Heart Buster | Rose Hillyer | 1924-07-06 | Rose Hillyer, the sweetheart of cowboy Tod Walton, is about to marry Edward Gordon a slick con-man and a bigamist. Tod has proof of Gordon’s bad deeds… |
Mister Dynamite | Charmian Dvorjak | 1935-04-22 | A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino…. |
By Candlelight | Baroness von Ballin | 1933-12-18 | A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince’s butler for the Prince…. |
Jungle Menace | Valerie Shields | 1937-09-01 | Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest…. |
The Girl from Mandalay | Mary Trevor | 1936-04-19 | John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster’s fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their … |
Jack O’Clubs | 1924-02-01 | A tough policeman who patrols the city’s worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the girl he loves…. | |
Sadie McKee | Dolly Merrick | 1934-05-09 | A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house…. |
The Silent Feminists: America’s First Women Directors | Herself | 1993-06-30 | A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era…. |
Hollywood Boulevard | Flora Moore | 1936-08-20 | With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w… |
Wolves of the North | Madge Chester | 1924-09-21 | The adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other…. |
Ladies Crave Excitement | Miss Winkler | 1935-06-21 | Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures…. |
San Francisco Docks | Frances March | 1940-12-25 | Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father’s waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who h… |
Tin Pan Alley | Nora Bayes | 1940-11-29 | Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s… |
As Good as Married | Miss Danforth | 1937-05-09 | When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes…. |
The Marriage Circle | Miss Hofer | 1924-02-10 | Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are uhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining … |
The Lone Hand | 1922-10-16 | Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, but before he can relax, he meets Jane Sheridan and… | |
Remembrance | Beatrice | 1922-10-01 | Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a numbe… |
Peter Pan | Mrs. Darling | 1924-12-29 | Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefario… |
The Butterfly Man | (uncredited) | 1920-04-18 | Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie Morgan, an heiress charmed by his act of heroism, … |
Huckleberry Finn | Mary Jane Wilks | 1920-02-29 | Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by … |
The Prisoner | Marie | 1923-03-18 | While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli… |
Oliver Twist | Rose Maylie | 1922-10-30 | Oliver’s mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring u… |
Reunion | Janet Fair | 1936-11-20 | Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for del… |
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self (archive footage) | 1999-06-14 | Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances…. |
The Kid | Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited) | 1921-01-21 | A tramp cares for a boy after he’s abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son…. |
The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 | This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change… |
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