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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 4, 1864
Died
May 30, 1944
Place of Birth
Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
- Jessie Ralph Chambers
- Jessie Rolph
- Jessie Ralph Patton
Jessie Ralph
1.5 Popularity
Biography
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
7.3
Duchess of Beltravers
They Met in Bombay
1941
4.6
Mrs. McGuinness
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
6.5
Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
The Bank Dick
1940
0.0
Grandma Brokaw
I Want a Divorce
1940
0.0
Mrs. Van Dyne
The Girl from Avenue A
1940
6.0
Mama McGann
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940
4.8
Aunt Martha Parker
Star Dust
1940
5.7
Fairy Berylune
The Blue Bird
1940
6.4
Mrs. Weaver
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
0.0
Veronica Hudson
Mickey the Kid
1939
Credits
They Met in Bombay
as Duchess of Beltravers
1941
7.3
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Mrs. McGuinness
1941
4.6
The Bank Dick
as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
1940
6.5
I Want a Divorce
as Grandma Brokaw
1940
0.0
The Girl from Avenue A
as Mrs. Van Dyne
1940
0.0
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
as Mama McGann
1940
6.0
Star Dust
as Aunt Martha Parker
1940
4.8
The Blue Bird
as Fairy Berylune
1940
5.7
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Mrs. Weaver
1939
6.4
Mickey the Kid
as Veronica Hudson
1939
0.0
The Kid From Texas
as Aunt Minetta
1939
6.5
Cafe Society
as Mrs. De Witt
1939
6.0
St. Louis Blues
as Aunt Tibbie
1939
6.0
Four Girls in White
as Miss Tobias
1939
6.3
Port of Seven Seas
as Honorine
1938
0.0
Hold That Kiss
as Aunt Lucy
1938
6.5
Love Is a Headache
as Sheriff Janet Winfield
1938
5.7
Double Wedding
as Mrs. Kensington-Bly
1937
6.4
The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
1937
7.0
The Good Earth
as Cuckoo
1937
6.2
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as The Duchess of Ebley
1937
5.8
Camille
as Nanine
1936
6.9
After the Thin Man
as Aunt Katherine Forrest
1936
7.3
Walking on Air
as Evelyn Bennett
1936
5.8
Bunker Bean
as Grandmother
1936
4.6
San Francisco
as Mrs. Maisie Burley
1936
6.5
The Unguarded Hour
as Lady Agatha Hathaway
1936
6.2
Yellow Dust
as Mrs. Brian
1936
3.8
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Applewoman
1936
6.7
The Garden Murder Case
as Mrs. Hammle
1936
5.4
Captain Blood
as Mrs. Barlow
1935
7.2
I Found Stella Parish
as Nana
1935
7.0
Metropolitan
as Charwoman
1935
0.0
I Live My Life
as Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
1935
6.4
Jalna
as Gran Whiteoaks
1935
4.0
Paris in Spring
as Countess de Charelle
1935
5.0
Mark of the Vampire
as Midwife
1935
6.1
Les Misérables
as Madame Magloire
1935
7.2
Vanessa: Her Love Story
as Lady Mullion
1935
6.0
Enchanted April
as Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
1935
4.5
David Copperfield
as Clara Peggotty
1935
6.6
Evelyn Prentice
as Mrs. Blake
1934
6.5
We Live Again
as Matrona Pavlovna
1934
6.6
The Affairs of Cellini
as Beatrice
1934
4.9
One Night of Love
as Angelina
1934
5.2
Murder at the Vanities
as Mrs. Helene Smith
1934
5.5
Coming Out Party
as Nora
1934
5.0
Nana
as Zoe
1934
5.2
Cocktail Hour
as Princess
1933
4.8
Ann Carver's Profession
as Terry
1933
6.3
Elmer, the Great
as Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
1933
4.9
Child of Manhattan
as Aunt Minnie
1933
7.2
Such a Little Queen
as Mary
1921
0.0
The Madonna of the Slums
1919
0.0