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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.
Jessie Ralph Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jessie Ralph |
| Also Know | Jessie Ralph Chambers, Jessie Rolph |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1864-11-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1944-05-30 |
Jessie Ralph Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Walking on Air | Evelyn Bennett | 1936-09-11 | A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents…. |
| Cafe Society | Mrs. De Witt | 1939-03-03 | A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column…. |
| Child of Manhattan | Aunt Minnie | 1933-02-11 | Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Danc… |
| The Kid From Texas | Aunt Minetta | 1939-04-14 | A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show…. |
| Bunker Bean | Grandmother | 1936-06-26 | A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon…. |
| David Copperfield | Clara Peggotty | 1935-01-18 | Charles Dickens’ classic tale of an orphaned boy’s fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him…. |
| Yellow Dust | Mrs. Brian | 1936-03-12 | After he’s accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks…. |
| The Bank Dick | Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch | 1940-11-29 | Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he’s occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank g… |
| Double Wedding | Mrs. Kensington-Bly | 1937-10-15 | A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process…. |
| Camille | Nanine | 1936-12-26 | Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert t… |
| Cocktail Hour | Princess de Longville | 1933-06-05 | Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined… |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | The Duchess of Ebley | 1937-02-19 | A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks…. |
| One Night of Love | Angelina | 1934-07-16 | Mary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working… |
| Port of Seven Seas | Honorine | 1938-07-01 | In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out… |
| The Unguarded Hour | Lady Agatha Hathaway | 1936-04-10 | A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man…. |
| I Found Stella Parish | Nana | 1935-11-14 | A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past…. |
| Hold That Kiss | Aunt Lucy | 1938-05-13 | Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy…. |
| Mickey the Kid | Veronica Hudson | 1939-07-03 | A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children…. |
| St. Louis Blues | Aunt Tibbie | 1939-02-03 | A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they mak… |
| They Met in Bombay | Duchess of Beltravers | 1941-06-27 | A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China…. |
| San Francisco | Mrs. Maisie Burley | 1936-06-26 | A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake…. |
| After the Thin Man | Aunt Katherine Forrest | 1936-12-25 | Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora’s cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady… |
| The Affairs of Cellini | Beatrice | 1934-08-24 | The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke…. |
| The Lady from Cheyenne | Mrs. McGuinness | 1941-04-11 | Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women’s suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes … |
| The Good Earth | Cuckoo | 1937-06-02 | China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the man… |
| The Girl from Avenue A | Mrs. Van Dyne | 1940-08-09 | A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright…. |
| Murder at the Vanities | Mrs. Helene Smith | 1934-05-18 | Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la… |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Mrs. Weaver | 1939-11-10 | Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper… |
| Enchanted April | Mrs. Phoebe Fisher | 1935-02-01 | Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom’s life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in he… |
| The Blue Bird | Fairy Berylune | 1940-01-15 | An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of ha… |
| Paris in Spring | Countess de Charelle | 1935-05-27 | Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top o… |
| Jalna | Gran Whiteoaks | 1935-08-09 | A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm…. |
| I Live My Life | Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay’s Grandmother | 1935-10-04 | A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist…. |
| The Romance of Celluloid | Self | 1937-08-26 | Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are… |
| Les Misérables | Madame Magloire | 1935-04-20 | In early nineteenth-century France Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who failed to report to parole, is relentlessly pursued over a twenty-year period by Ja… |
| Love Is a Headache | Sheriff Janet Winfield | 1938-01-14 | A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her k… |
| I Want a Divorce | Grandma Brokaw | 1940-09-20 | Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake…. |
| Ann Carver’s Profession | Terry | 1933-06-09 | Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife’s highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband’s stagnant career…. |
| We Live Again | Matrona Pavlovna | 1934-11-01 | Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that h… |
| Four Girls in White | Miss Tobias | 1939-01-27 | Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse…. |
| Mark of the Vampire | Midwife | 1935-04-26 | Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire who prowled around his castle. One year later, Irena, Karell’s daughter, is ha… |
| Star Dust | Aunt Martha Parker | 1940-04-06 | When the studios reject her because she”s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own…. |
| Coming Out Party | Nora | 1934-03-09 | In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-wille… |
| Nana | Zoe | 1934-02-01 | Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck th… |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Applewoman | 1936-03-06 | An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfathe… |
| Captain Blood | Mrs. Barlow | 1935-12-26 | Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate…. |
| Evelyn Prentice | Mrs. Blake | 1934-11-09 | A criminal lawyer’s wife faces blackmail when she has an affair…. |
| Metropolitan | Charwoman | 1935-10-17 | Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and com… |
| Vanessa: Her Love Story | Lady Mullion | 1935-03-01 | The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt…. |
| The Garden Murder Case | Mrs. Hammle | 1936-02-21 | Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwi… |
Credit: TMDB
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