MGM Parade
1955 · TV Show
as self
Jessie Ralph
1864-11-04
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Filmography
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · Movie
as Mrs. McGuinness
They Met in Bombay
1941 · Movie
as Duchess of Beltravers
The Bank Dick
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
I Want a Divorce
1940 · Movie
as Grandma Brokaw
The Blue Bird
1940 · Movie
as Fairy Berylune
Star Dust
1940 · Movie
as Aunt Martha Parker
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940 · Movie
as Mama McGann
The Girl from Avenue A
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. Van Dyne
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Weaver
The Kid From Texas
1939 · Movie
as Aunt Minetta
Cafe Society
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. De Witt
Four Girls in White
1939 · Movie
as Miss Tobias
Mickey the Kid
1939 · Movie
as Veronica Hudson
St. Louis Blues
1939 · Movie
as Aunt Tibbie
Port of Seven Seas
1938 · Movie
as Honorine
Love Is a Headache
1938 · Movie
as Sheriff Janet Winfield
Hold That Kiss
1938 · Movie
as Aunt Lucy
Double Wedding
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Kensington-Bly
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937 · Movie
as The Duchess of Ebley
The Good Earth
1937 · Movie
as Cuckoo
The Romance of Celluloid
1937 · Movie
as Self
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936 · Movie
as Applewoman
After the Thin Man
1936 · Movie
as Katherine Forrest
Camille
1936 · Movie
as Nanine
The Unguarded Hour
1936 · Movie
as Lady Agatha Hathaway
Bunker Bean
1936 · Movie
as Grandmother
Walking on Air
1936 · Movie
as Evelyn Bennett
Yellow Dust
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Brian
The Garden Murder Case
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Hammle
San Francisco
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Maisie Burley
Les Misérables
1935 · Movie
as Madame Magloire
Captain Blood
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Barlow
Enchanted April
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
Metropolitan
1935 · Movie
as Charwoman
I Found Stella Parish
1935 · Movie
as Nana
David Copperfield
1935 · Movie
as Clara Peggotty
Paris in Spring
1935 · Movie
as Countess de Charelle
Jalna
1935 · Movie
as Gran Whiteoaks
I Live My Life
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935 · Movie
as Lady Mullion
Mark of the Vampire
1935 · Movie
as Midwife
Murder at the Vanities
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Helene Smith
Evelyn Prentice
1934 · Movie
as Mrs. Blake
One Night of Love
1934 · Movie
as Angelina
The Affairs of Cellini
1934 · Movie
as Beatrice
We Live Again
1934 · Movie
as Matrona Pavlovna
Nana
1934 · Movie
as Zoe
Coming Out Party
1934 · Movie
as Nora
Elmer, the Great
1933 · Movie
as Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
Cocktail Hour
1933 · Movie
as Princess
Child of Manhattan
1933 · Movie
as Aunt Minnie
Ann Carver's Profession
1933 · Movie
as Terry
Such a Little Queen
1921 · Movie
as Mary
The Madonna of the Slums
1919 · Movie
