1864-11-04 ( 160 years old ) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
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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.
Movies
They Met in Bombay
1941-06-27
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941-04-11
The Bank Dick
1940-11-29
I Want a Divorce
1940-09-20
The Girl from Avenue A
1940-08-09
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940-05-01
Star Dust
1940-04-06
The Blue Bird
1940-01-15
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939-11-10
Mickey the Kid
1939-07-03
The Kid From Texas
1939-04-14
Cafe Society
1939-03-03
St. Louis Blues
1939-02-03
Four Girls in White
1939-01-27
Port of Seven Seas
1938-07-01
Hold That Kiss
1938-05-13
Love Is a Headache
1938-01-14
Double Wedding
1937-10-15
The Romance of Celluloid
1937-08-27
The Good Earth
1937-06-02
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937-02-19
Camille
1936-12-26
After the Thin Man
1936-12-25
Walking on Air
1936-09-11
Bunker Bean
1936-06-26
San Francisco
1936-06-26
The Unguarded Hour
1936-04-10
Yellow Dust
1936-03-12
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1936-03-06
The Garden Murder Case
1936-02-21
Captain Blood
1935-12-26
I Found Stella Parish
1935-11-16
Metropolitan
1935-10-17
I Live My Life
1935-10-04
Jalna
1935-08-09
Paris in Spring
1935-05-27
Mark of the Vampire
1935-04-26
Les Misérables
1935-04-20
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935-03-01
Enchanted April
1935-02-01
David Copperfield
1935-01-18
Evelyn Prentice
1934-11-09
We Live Again
1934-11-01
The Affairs of Cellini
1934-08-24
One Night of Love
1934-07-16
Murder at the Vanities
1934-05-18
Coming Out Party
1934-03-09
Nana
1934-02-01
Ann Carver's Profession
1933-06-09
Cocktail Hour
1933-06-05
Elmer, the Great
1933-04-29
Child of Manhattan
1933-02-11
Such a Little Queen
1921-06-28
The Madonna of the Slums
1919-11-05
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