Jobyna Ralston

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Jobyna Ralston (around 1924)

Jobyna Ralston (born November 21, 1899 in South Pittsburg , Tennessee , † January 22, 1967 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American actress who starred in around 80 films between 1919 and 1931.

life and career

Jobyna Ralston was born in Tennessee as the eldest child of portrait photographer Mrs. Sarah Raulston and her husband Joe. The mother named her daughter after the stage actress Jobyna Howland , the sister of Olin Howland , who was popular at the time . Encouraged by her parents, she appeared on stage for the first time in the role of Cinderella at the age of nine . After a failed marriage with the farmer and childhood friend John Campbell, Ralston moved to New York, where she attended drama school. In 1921 she appeared on Broadway in the play Two Little Girls in Blue . In 1919 and 1920 she appeared in a number of films in New York and Florida. Star comedian Max Linder noticed the young actress and advised her to try a film career in Hollywood . There she first played in a few films alongside Linder, but also in the now-lost Marx Brothers film Humor Risk (1921). In order to be able to pay the medical bills for her ailing mother better, she finally switched from the theater to the film business, which was meanwhile more profitable for her.

In 1923 Ralston was elected as a "hopeful young actress" among the WAMPAS Baby Stars . She has since also appeared in the one-act plays by comedy producer Hal Roach . As Roach's star comedian Harold Lloyd his previous screen partner Mildred Davis married and that therefore resigned as his co-star in the future, Ralston was a new female lead selected for the comedies of Harold Lloyd. In total, the two played together in the six films Why Worry? , Girl Shy , Hot Water , The Freshman , For Heaven's Sake and The Kid Brother . Although Ralston is best known today for her collaboration with Lloyd, she also played a major supporting role in William A. Wellman's aviation drama Wings , which won the award for Best Picture at the first Academy Awards in 1929 . On the set of Wings , she also met her co-actor Richard Arlen , whom she married in 1927. The marriage, which resulted in a son, was divorced in 1943.

In the late 1920s, talkies came to Hollywood. Although she had now established herself as a dramatic actress after more comedic roles, Ralston withdrew from the film business after only two sound films in 1931 because of a lisp and her pregnancy . She died of pneumonia in 1967 at the age of 67.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1919: Starting Out in Life
  • 1921: Humor Risk
  • 1921: A Sailor Made Man
  • 1922: The three Muskrepiere (The Three Must-Get-Theres)
  • 1923: Dogs of War
  • 1923: Better to be ill than worry-free (Why Worry?)
  • 1924: Girl Shy (Girl Shy)
  • 1924: The water boils (Hot Water)
  • 1925: The Freshman (The Freshman)
  • 1926: For heaven's sake (For Heaven's Sake)
  • 1926: gigolo
  • 1927: The little brother (The Kid Brother)
  • 1927 wing steel (Wings)
  • 1927: Lightning
  • 1928: The Power of the Press
  • 1930: Rough Waters
  • 1931: Sheer Luck

Web links

Commons : Jobyna Ralston  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in Silence is Platinum
  2. ↑ Article in Silence is Platinum
  3. ↑ Article in Silence is Platinum
personal data
SURNAME Ralston, Jobyna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH South Pittsburg , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1967
Place of death Woodland Hills , California