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