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