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Jessie Ralph
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 matr…
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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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1955
MGM Parade
TV show self
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1941
They Met in Bombay
Movie Duchess of Beltravers
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1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie Mrs. McGuinness
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1940
The Bank Dick
Movie Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
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1940
I Want a Divorce
Movie Grandma Brokaw
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1940
The Girl from Avenue A
Movie Mrs. Van Dyne
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1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Movie Mama McGann
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1940
Star Dust
Movie Aunt Martha Parker
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1940
The Blue Bird
Movie Fairy Berylune
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1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
Movie Mrs. Weaver
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1939
Mickey the Kid
Movie Veronica Hudson
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1939
The Kid From Texas
Movie Aunt Minetta
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1939
Cafe Society
Movie Mrs. De Witt
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1939
St. Louis Blues
Movie Aunt Tibbie
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1939
Four Girls in White
Movie Miss Tobias
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1938
Port of Seven Seas
Movie Honorine
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1938
Hold That Kiss
Movie Aunt Lucy
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1938
Love Is a Headache
Movie Sheriff Janet Winfield
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1937
Double Wedding
Movie Mrs. Kensington-Bly
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1937
The Romance of Celluloid
Movie Self
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1937
The Good Earth
Movie Cuckoo
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1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Movie The Duchess of Ebley
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1936
Camille
Movie Nanine
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1936
After the Thin Man
Movie Katherine Forrest
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1936
Walking on Air
Movie Evelyn Bennett
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1936
San Francisco
Movie Mrs. Maisie Burley
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1936
Bunker Bean
Movie Grandmother
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1936
The Unguarded Hour
Movie Lady Agatha Hathaway
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1936
Yellow Dust
Movie Mrs. Brian
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1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Movie Applewoman
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1936
The Garden Murder Case
Movie Mrs. Hammle
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1935
Captain Blood
Movie Mrs. Barlow
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1935
I Found Stella Parish
Movie Nana
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1935
Metropolitan
Movie Charwoman
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1935
I Live My Life
Movie Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
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1935
Jalna
Movie Gran Whiteoaks
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1935
Paris in Spring
Movie Countess de Charelle
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1935
Mark of the Vampire
Movie Midwife
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1935
Les Misérables
Movie Madame Magloire
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1935
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Movie Lady Mullion
