Jessie Ralph

Jessie Ralph was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures.

She was born Jessie Ralph Chambers 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, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this time, so her roles were restricted to those of dumpy old ladies, but her expertise at stealing scenes captured the imagination of cinemagoers of the time. Her bestknown roles are as Greta Garbos maid in Camille, as W.C. Fields battleaxe of a motherinlaw in The Bank Dick, and as Myrna Loys supercilious aunt Katherine in After the Thin Man. She starred in 55 movies altogether, 52 between 1933 and 1941.

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