Jessie Ralph

1864-11-04 Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

Biografia

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.

Películas

	The Lady from Cheyenne	Mrs. McGuinness	1941-04-11
	They Met in Bombay	Duchess of Beltravers	1941-06-27
	The Blue Bird	Fairy Berylune	1940-01-15
	I Want a Divorce	Grandma Brokaw	1940-09-20
	The Bank Dick	Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch	1940-11-29
	Star Dust	Aunt Martha Parker	1940-04-06
	I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby	Mama McGann	1940-05-01
	The Girl from Avenue A	Mrs. Van Dyne	1940-08-09
	The Kid From Texas	Aunt Minetta	1939-04-14
	St. Louis Blues	Aunt Tibbie	1939-02-03
	Drums Along the Mohawk	Mrs. Weaver	1939-11-10
	Four Girls in White	Miss Tobias	1939-01-27
	Cafe Society	Mrs. De Witt	1939-03-03
	Mickey the Kid	Veronica Hudson	1939-07-03
	Port of Seven Seas	Honorine	1938-07-01
	Hold That Kiss	Aunt Lucy	1938-05-13
	Love Is a Headache	Sheriff Janet Winfield	1938-01-14
	Double Wedding	Mrs. Kensington-Bly	1937-10-15
	The Good Earth	Cuckoo	1937-06-02
	The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	The Duchess of Ebley	1937-02-19
	The Romance of Celluloid	Self	1937-08-27
	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Applewoman	1936-03-06
	San Francisco	Mrs. Maisie Burley	1936-06-26
	Walking on Air	Evelyn Bennett	1936-09-11
	Camille	Nanine	1936-12-26
	Yellow Dust	Mrs. Brian	1936-03-12
	Bunker Bean	Grandmother	1936-06-26
	After the Thin Man	Aunt Katherine Forrest	1936-12-25
	The Garden Murder Case	Mrs. Hammle	1936-02-21
	The Unguarded Hour	Lady Agatha Hathaway	1936-04-10
	Paris in Spring	Countess de Charelle	1935-05-27
	Jalna	Gran Whiteoaks	1935-08-09
	Captain Blood	Mrs. Barlow	1935-12-26
	Les Misérables	Madame Magloire	1935-04-20
	I Found Stella Parish	Nana	1935-11-16
	Metropolitan	Charwoman	1935-10-17
	Enchanted April	Mrs. Phoebe Fisher	1935-02-01
	Mark of the Vampire	Midwife	1935-04-26
	The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger	Clara Peggotty	1935-01-18
	Vanessa: Her Love Story	Lady Mullion	1935-03-01
	I Live My Life	Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother	1935-10-04
	Nana	Zoe	1934-02-01
	Evelyn Prentice	Mrs. Blake	1934-11-09
	One Night of Love	Angelina	1934-07-16
	Murder at the Vanities	Mrs. Helene Smith	1934-05-18
	We Live Again	Matrona Pavlovna	1934-11-01
	The Affairs of Cellini	Beatrice	1934-08-24
	Coming Out Party	Nora	1934-03-09
	Ann Carver's Profession	Terry	1933-06-09
	Child of Manhattan	Aunt Minnie	1933-02-11
	Elmer, the Great	Sarah Crosby (uncredited)	1933-04-29
	Cocktail Hour	Princess	1933-06-05
	Such a Little Queen	Mary	1921-06-28
	The Madonna of the Slums		1919-11-05