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