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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
They Met in Bombay
Character:Duchess of Beltravers
Release Date:27/06/1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
Character:Mrs. McGuinness
Release Date:11/04/1941
The Bank Dick
Character:Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
Release Date:29/11/1940
I Want a Divorce
Character:Grandma Brokaw
Release Date:20/09/1940
The Girl from Avenue A
Character:Mrs. Van Dyne
Release Date:09/08/1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Character:Mama McGann
Release Date:01/05/1940
Star Dust
Character:Aunt Martha Parker
Release Date:06/04/1940
The Blue Bird
Character:Fairy Berylune
Release Date:15/01/1940
Drums Along the Mohawk
Character:Mrs. Weaver
Release Date:10/11/1939
Mickey the Kid
Character:Veronica Hudson
Release Date:03/07/1939
The Kid From Texas
Character:Aunt Minetta
Release Date:14/04/1939
Cafe Society
Character:Mrs. De Witt
Release Date:03/03/1939
St. Louis Blues
Character:Aunt Tibbie
Release Date:03/02/1939
Four Girls in White
Character:Miss Tobias
Release Date:27/01/1939
Port of Seven Seas
Character:Honorine
Release Date:01/07/1938
Hold That Kiss
Character:Aunt Lucy
Release Date:13/05/1938
Love Is a Headache
Character:Sheriff Janet Winfield
Release Date:14/01/1938
Double Wedding
Character:Mrs. Kensington-Bly
Release Date:15/10/1937
The Romance of Celluloid
Character:Self
Release Date:27/08/1937
The Good Earth
Character:Cuckoo
Release Date:02/06/1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character:The Duchess of Ebley
Release Date:19/02/1937
Camille
Character:Nanine
Release Date:26/12/1936
After the Thin Man
Character:Aunt Katherine Forrest
Release Date:25/12/1936
Walking on Air
Character:Evelyn Bennett
Release Date:11/09/1936
Bunker Bean
Character:Grandmother
Release Date:26/06/1936
San Francisco
Character:Mrs. Maisie Burley
Release Date:26/06/1936
The Unguarded Hour
Character:Lady Agatha Hathaway
Release Date:10/04/1936
Yellow Dust
Character:Mrs. Brian
Release Date:12/03/1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character:Applewoman
Release Date:06/03/1936
The Garden Murder Case
Character:Mrs. Hammle
Release Date:21/02/1936
Captain Blood
Character:Mrs. Barlow
Release Date:26/12/1935
I Found Stella Parish
Character:Nana
Release Date:16/11/1935
Metropolitan
Character:Charwoman
Release Date:17/10/1935
I Live My Life
Character:Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
Release Date:04/10/1935
Jalna
Character:Gran Whiteoaks
Release Date:09/08/1935
Paris in Spring
Character:Countess de Charelle
Release Date:05/07/1935
Mark of the Vampire
Character:Midwife
Release Date:26/04/1935
Les Misérables
Character:Madame Magloire
Release Date:20/04/1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Character:Lady Mullion
Release Date:01/03/1935
Enchanted April
Character:Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
Release Date:01/02/1935
David Copperfield
Character:Clara Peggotty
Release Date:18/01/1935
Evelyn Prentice
Character:Mrs. Blake
Release Date:09/11/1934
We Live Again
Character:Matrona Pavlovna
Release Date:01/11/1934
The Affairs of Cellini
Character:Beatrice
Release Date:24/08/1934
One Night of Love
Character:Angelina
Release Date:16/07/1934
Murder at the Vanities
Character:Mrs. Helene Smith
Release Date:18/05/1934
Coming Out Party
Character:Nora
Release Date:09/03/1934
Nana
Character:Zoe
Release Date:01/02/1934
Cocktail Hour
Character:Princess
Release Date:05/06/1933
Ann Carver's Profession
Character:Terry
Release Date:26/05/1933
Elmer, the Great
Character:Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
Release Date:29/04/1933
Child of Manhattan
Character:Aunt Minnie
Release Date:11/02/1933
Such a Little Queen
Character:Mary
Release Date:28/06/1921
The Madonna of the Slums
Character:
Release Date:05/11/1919
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