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Jessie Ralph
Born · November 4, 1864
Died · May 30, 1944 (79 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Bio
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.
They Met in Bombay
Duchess of Beltravers
7.3
1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
Mrs. McGuinness
5.2
1941
The Bank Dick
Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
6.5
1940
I Want a Divorce
Grandma Brokaw
0.0
1940
The Girl from Avenue A
Mrs. Van Dyne
0.0
1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Mama McGann
6.0
1940
Star Dust
Aunt Martha Parker
4.7
1940
The Blue Bird
Fairy Berylune
5.7
1940
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mrs. Weaver
6.5
1939
Mickey the Kid
Veronica Hudson
0.0
1939
The Kid From Texas
Aunt Minetta
6.5
1939
Cafe Society
Mrs. De Witt
6.0
1939
St. Louis Blues
Aunt Tibbie
0.0
1939
Four Girls in White
Miss Tobias
6.3
1939
Port of Seven Seas
Honorine
0.0
1938
Hold That Kiss
Aunt Lucy
6.5
1938
Love Is a Headache
Sheriff Janet Winfield
5.7
1938
Double Wedding
Mrs. Kensington-Bly
6.5
1937
The Romance of Celluloid
Self
7.0
1937
The Good Earth
Cuckoo
6.3
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Duchess of Ebley
6.0
1937
Camille
Nanine
7.0
1936
After the Thin Man
Aunt Katherine Forrest
7.3
1936
Walking on Air
Evelyn Bennett
5.8
1936
Bunker Bean
Grandmother
4.6
1936
San Francisco
Mrs. Maisie Burley
6.6
1936
The Unguarded Hour
Lady Agatha Hathaway
6.2
1936
Yellow Dust
Mrs. Brian
4.0
1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Applewoman
6.8
1936
The Garden Murder Case
Mrs. Hammle
5.5
1936
Captain Blood
Mrs. Barlow
7.2
1935
I Found Stella Parish
Nana
7.0
1935
Metropolitan
Charwoman
0.0
1935
I Live My Life
Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
6.4
1935
Jalna
Gran Whiteoaks
4.8
1935
Paris in Spring
Countess de Charelle
5.0
1935
Mark of the Vampire
Midwife
6.1
1935
Les Misérables
Madame Magloire
7.2
1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Lady Mullion
6.0
1935
Enchanted April
Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
5.4
1935
David Copperfield
Clara Peggotty
6.6
1935
Evelyn Prentice
Mrs. Blake
6.6
1934
We Live Again
Matrona Pavlovna
6.5
1934
The Affairs of Cellini
Beatrice
4.9
1934
One Night of Love
Angelina
5.5
1934
Murder at the Vanities
Mrs. Helene Smith
5.4
1934
Coming Out Party
Nora
5.0
1934
Nana
Zoe
5.0
1934
Ann Carver's Profession
Terry
5.5
1933
Cocktail Hour
Princess
5.3
1933
Elmer, the Great
Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
4.9
1933
Child of Manhattan
Aunt Minnie
8.0
1933
Such a Little Queen
Mary
0.0
1921
The Madonna of the Slums
0.0
1919