Jessie Ralph
- Interprétation
- 4 novembre 1864 · Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
- 30 mai 1944
Biographie
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.
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Filmographie
- MGM Parade · En personne
- L'aventure commence à Bombay · Duchess of Beltravers
- The Lady from Cheyenne · Mrs. McGuinness
- Mines de rien · Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
- I Want a Divorce · Grandma Brokaw
- The Girl from Avenue A · Mrs. Van Dyne
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby · Mama McGann
- Star Dust · Aunt Martha Parker
- L'Oiseau bleu · Fairy Berylune
- Sur la piste des Mohawks · Mrs. Weaver
- Mickey the Kid · Veronica Hudson
- The Kid From Texas · Aunt Minetta
- Cafe Society · Mrs. De Witt
- St. Louis Blues · Aunt Tibbie
- Four Girls in White · Miss Tobias
- Le Port des sept mers · Honorine
- Hold That Kiss · Aunt Lucy
- Love Is a Headache · Sheriff Janet Winfield
- Mariage double · Mrs. Kensington-Bly
- The Romance of Celluloid · En personne
- Visages d'Orient · Cuckoo
- La Fin de Mme Cheyney · The Duchess of Ebley
- Le Roman de Marguerite Gautier · Nanine
- Nick, Gentleman détective · Katherine Forrest
- Walking on Air · Evelyn Bennett
- Bunker Bean · Grandmother
- San Francisco · Mrs. Maisie Burley
- The Unguarded Hour · Lady Agatha Hathaway
- Yellow Dust · Mrs. Brian
- Le petit lord Fauntleroy · Applewoman
- The Garden Murder Case · Mrs. Hammle
- Capitaine Blood · Mrs. Barlow
- La Femme traquée · Nana
- Metropolitan · Charwoman
- I Live My Life · Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
- Jalna · Gran Whiteoaks
- Paris in Spring · Countess de Charelle
- La Marque du vampire · Midwife
- Les Misérables · Madame Magloire
- Vanessa: Her Love Story · Lady Mullion
- Enchanted April · Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
- David Copperfield · Clara Peggotty
- Le Témoin imprévu · Mrs. Blake
- We Live Again · Matrona Pavlovna
- The Affairs of Cellini · Beatrice
- Une nuit d'amour · Angelina
- Rythmes d'amour · Mrs. Helene Smith
- Coming Out Party · Nora
- Nana · Zoe
- Cocktail Hour · Princess
- Ann Carver's Profession · Terry
- Elmer, the Great · Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
- Child of Manhattan · Aunt Minnie
- Such a Little Queen · Mary
- The Madonna of the Slums