Jessie Ralph
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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.
As Actor/Actress
MGM Parade
self
La dama de las camelias
Nanine
San Francisco
Mrs. Maisie Burley
Les Misérables
Madame Magloire
El pájaro azul
Fairy Berylune
Captain Blood
Mrs. Barlow
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
Clara Peggotty
After the Thin Man
Katherine Forrest
Tambores de guerra
Mrs. Weaver
Mark of the Vampire
Midwife
Evelyn Prentice
Mrs. Blake
Madre tierra
Cuckoo
Enchanted April
Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
Jalna
Gran Whiteoaks
Cafe Society
Mrs. De Witt
The Romance of Celluloid
Self
Double Wedding
Mrs. Kensington-Bly
The Affairs of Cellini
Beatrice
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Applewoman
One Night of Love
Angelina
Star Dust
Aunt Martha Parker
I Live My Life
Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
Paris in Spring
Countess de Charelle
Murder at the Vanities
Mrs. Helene Smith
They Met in Bombay
Duchess of Beltravers
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Duchess of Ebley
The Garden Murder Case
Mrs. Hammle
Port of Seven Seas
Honorine
St. Louis Blues
Aunt Tibbie
The Bank Dick
Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch