Jessie Ralph
Jessie Ralph (born November 5, 1864 in Gloucester , Massachusetts , † May 30, 1944 ) was an American actress .
Life
Jessie Ralph, the daughter of a sailor, came to the stage in Providence at the age of 16 . In the following years she took on numerous small roles in various stage plays. Between October 1922 and October 1932 she also appeared on Broadway , including in Romeo and Juliet , but also in musical productions by George M. Cohan . In 1929 she made a guest appearance as far as Paris.
She had made her first film appearance in 1916, but it was only with the advent of talkies that Ralph appeared regularly in motion pictures from 1933 onwards. Like many other theater actors with significant speaking experience, she was directed to Hollywood when the talkies began. The corpulent, gray-haired character actress was seen several times as a servant and in literary film adaptations , for example as Nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield (1935), as Madame Magloire in Die Elenden (1935) or as Greta Garbo's maid in Die Kamelliendame (1936). In addition to many likeable older women, she also sometimes played indecipherable characters, for example as the socially conscious aunt of Myrna Loy in the crime comedy Thin Man, 2nd Case (1936) and as the nagging mother-in-law of WC Fields in the comedy The Bank Detective (1940). Overall, Ralph appeared in over 50 films between 1933 and 1941, almost always in supporting roles .
After a leg amputation, she had to retire from her job in 1941. Jessie Ralph died at the age of 79 after a two-week illness in her native Gloucester, where she had last lived in her niece's house. Ralph had already outlived her husband, the actor William Patton, by many years. She was buried in the local Mount Pleasent Cemetery .
Filmography (selection)
- 1915: Mary's Lamb
- 1915: The Galloper
- 1915: A Ringer for Max
- 1934: marriage market (coming-out party)
- 1934: Cocktail for Two (Murder at the Vanities)
- 1934: The Shining Target (One Night for Love)
- 1934: Everything Loves, Everything Lies (The Affairs of Cellini)
- 1934: I'll fight for you (Evelyn Prentice)
- 1935: David Copperfield
- 1935: Under the pirate flag (Captain Blood)
- 1935: I Found Stella Parrish
- 1935: The Misery (Les Misérables)
- 1935: Where Love Falls (I Live My Life)
- 1935: The Mark of the Vampire
- 1936: The Little Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
- 1936: San Francisco
- 1936: Thin Man, 2nd Case (After the Thin Man)
- 1936: The Lady of the Camellias (Camille)
- 1937: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- 1937: Double Wedding (Double Wedding)
- 1937: The Good Earth (The Good Earth)
- 1939: Drums Along the Mohawk (Drums Along the Mohawk)
- 1940: The Blue Bird
- 1940: The Bank Dick (The Bank Dick)
- 1941: escape route unknown (They Met in Bombay)
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
Web links
- Jessie Ralph in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jessie Ralph in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Jessie Ralph in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Jessie Ralph in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ralph, Jessie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gloucester , Massachusetts , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1944 |
| Place of death | Gloucester , Massachusetts , United States |