Acting · Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA · Born November 4, 1864
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.
TVMGM Parade
1955
as self
MovieThey Met in Bombay
1941
as Duchess of Beltravers
MovieThe Lady from Cheyenne
1941
as Mrs. McGuinness
MovieThe Bank Dick
1940
as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
MovieI Want a Divorce
1940
as Grandma Brokaw
MovieThe Girl from Avenue A
1940
as Mrs. Van Dyne
MovieI Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940
as Mama McGann
MovieStar Dust
1940
as Aunt Martha Parker
MovieThe Blue Bird
1940
as Fairy Berylune
MovieDrums Along the Mohawk
1939
as Mrs. Weaver
MovieMickey the Kid
1939
as Veronica Hudson
MovieThe Kid From Texas
1939
as Aunt Minetta
MovieCafe Society
1939
as Mrs. De Witt
MovieSt. Louis Blues
1939
as Aunt Tibbie
MovieFour Girls in White
1939
as Miss Tobias
MoviePort of Seven Seas
1938
as Honorine
MovieHold That Kiss
1938
as Aunt Lucy
MovieLove Is a Headache
1938
as Sheriff Janet Winfield
MovieDouble Wedding
1937
as Mrs. Kensington-Bly
MovieThe Romance of Celluloid
1937
as Self
MovieThe Good Earth
1937
as Cuckoo
MovieThe Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
as The Duchess of Ebley
MovieCamille
1936
as Nanine
MovieAfter the Thin Man
1936
as Katherine Forrest
MovieWalking on Air
1936
as Evelyn Bennett
MovieBunker Bean
1936
as Grandmother
MovieSan Francisco
1936
as Mrs. Maisie Burley
MovieThe Unguarded Hour
1936
as Lady Agatha Hathaway
MovieYellow Dust
1936
as Mrs. Brian
MovieLittle Lord Fauntleroy
1936
as Applewoman
MovieThe Garden Murder Case
1936
as Mrs. Hammle
MovieCaptain Blood
1935
as Mrs. Barlow
MovieI Found Stella Parish
1935
as Nana
MovieMetropolitan
1935
as Charwoman
MovieI Live My Life
1935
as Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
MovieJalna
1935
as Gran Whiteoaks
MovieParis in Spring
1935
as Countess de Charelle
MovieMark of the Vampire
1935
as Midwife
MovieLes Misérables
1935
as Madame Magloire
MovieVanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Lady Mullion
MovieEnchanted April
1935
as Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
MovieDavid Copperfield
1935
as Clara Peggotty
MovieEvelyn Prentice
1934
as Mrs. Blake
MovieWe Live Again
1934
as Matrona Pavlovna
MovieThe Affairs of Cellini
1934
as Beatrice
MovieOne Night of Love
1934
as Angelina
MovieMurder at the Vanities
1934
as Mrs. Helene Smith
MovieComing Out Party
1934
as Nora
MovieNana
1934
as Zoe
MovieCocktail Hour
1933
as Princess
MovieAnn Carver's Profession
1933
as Terry
MovieElmer, the Great
1933
as Sarah Crosby (uncredited)
MovieChild of Manhattan
1933
as Aunt Minnie
MovieSuch a Little Queen
1921
as Mary
MovieThe Madonna of the Slums
1919
