Jessie Ralph

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: Acting

Born: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA, 1864-11-04

Died: 1944-05-30

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1919	The Madonna of the Slums		0
2	1921	Such a Little Queen	Mary	0
3	1933	Child of Manhattan	Aunt Minnie	73
4	1933	Elmer, the Great	Sarah Crosby (uncredited)	49
5	1933	Cocktail Hour	Princess	53
6	1933	Ann Carver's Profession	Terry	55
7	1934	Nana	Zoe	50
8	1934	Coming Out Party	Nora	50
9	1934	Murder at the Vanities	Mrs. Helene Smith	55
10	1934	One Night of Love	Angelina	55
11	1934	The Affairs of Cellini	Beatrice	51
12	1934	We Live Again	Matrona Pavlovna	66
13	1934	Evelyn Prentice	Mrs. Blake	67
14	1935	David Copperfield	Clara Peggotty	67
15	1935	Enchanted April	Mrs. Phoebe Fisher	54
16	1935	Vanessa: Her Love Story	Lady Mullion	60
17	1935	Les Misérables	Madame Magloire	72
18	1935	Mark of the Vampire	Midwife	61
19	1935	Paris in Spring	Countess de Charelle	50
20	1935	Jalna	Gran Whiteoaks	48
21	1935	I Live My Life	Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother	64
22	1935	Metropolitan	Charwoman	0
23	1935	I Found Stella Parish	Nana	70
24	1935	Captain Blood	Mrs. Barlow	72
25	1936	The Garden Murder Case	Mrs. Hammle	55
26	1936	Little Lord Fauntleroy	Applewoman	67
27	1936	Yellow Dust	Mrs. Brian	40
28	1936	The Unguarded Hour	Lady Agatha Hathaway	62
29	1936	Bunker Bean	Grandmother	46
30	1936	San Francisco	Mrs. Maisie Burley	66
31	1936	Walking on Air	Evelyn Bennett	58
32	1936	After the Thin Man	Aunt Katherine Forrest	73
33	1936	Camille	Nanine	70
34	1937	The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	The Duchess of Ebley	60
35	1937	The Good Earth	Cuckoo	63
36	1937	The Romance of Celluloid	Self	70
37	1937	Double Wedding	Mrs. Kensington-Bly	66
38	1938	Love Is a Headache	Sheriff Janet Winfield	57
39	1938	Hold That Kiss	Aunt Lucy	65
40	1938	Port of Seven Seas	Honorine	0
41	1939	Four Girls in White	Miss Tobias	63
42	1939	St. Louis Blues	Aunt Tibbie	0
43	1939	Cafe Society	Mrs. De Witt	60
44	1939	The Kid From Texas	Aunt Minetta	65
45	1939	Mickey the Kid	Veronica Hudson	0
46	1939	Drums Along the Mohawk	Mrs. Weaver	64
47	1940	The Blue Bird	Fairy Berylune	57
48	1940	Star Dust	Aunt Martha Parker	47
49	1940	I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby	Mama McGann	60
50	1940	The Girl from Avenue A	Mrs. Van Dyne	0
51	1940	I Want a Divorce	Grandma Brokaw	0
52	1940	The Bank Dick	Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch	65
53	1941	The Lady from Cheyenne	Mrs. McGuinness	52
54	1941	They Met in Bombay	Duchess of Beltravers	73

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1919