Esther Ralston
Born: 1902-09-17 in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Died: 1994-01-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Esther Ralston (September 17th, 1902- January 14th, 1994) was an American silent film star. She began her career as a child actress in a family vaudeville act named "The Ralston Family with Baby Esther, America's Youngest Juliet". She then went on to appear in a few small silent film roles, including one alongside her brother in the 1920 film adaptation of Huckleberry Finn. Ralston gained attention as Mrs. Darling in the 1924 film adaptation of Peter Pan. Her most well known sound picture was To the Last Man in 1933.
Filmography
1999
- Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl as Self (archive footage)
1993
1962
1951
1946
- Jungle Terror as Valarie Shields
1940
- Tin Pan Alley as Nora Bayes
- San Francisco Docks as Frances March
1938
- Letter of Introduction as Mrs. Sinclair (uncredited)
- Slander House as Ruth De Milo
- The Spy Ring as Jean Bruce (as Jane Carleton)
1937
- Jungle Menace as Valerie Shields
- As Good as Married as Miss Danforth
- The Mysterious Pilot as Vivian McNain
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Flora Moore
- Reunion as Janet Fair
- The Girl from Mandalay as Mary Trevor
- We're in the Legion Now as Louise Rillette
1935
- Streamline Express as Elaine Vincent
- Mister Dynamite as Charmian Dvorjak
- Together We Live as Jenny
- Shadows of the Orient as Viola Avery
- Ladies Crave Excitement as Miss Winkler
- Forced Landing as Ruby Anatole
1934
- Sadie McKee as Dolly
- The Marines Are Coming as Dorothy Manning
- Romance in the Rain as Gwen de la Rue
- Strange Wives as Olga
1933
- To the Last Man as Ellen Colby
- Black Beauty as Leila Lambert
- By Candlelight as Baroness von Ballin
1932
- After the Ball as Elissa Strange
- Rome Express as Asta Marvelle
1931
- Lonely Wives as Madeline Smith
- The Prodigal as Antonia Farraday
1929
- Betrayal as Vroni
- The Mighty as Louise Patterson
- The Wheel of Life as Ruth Dangan
- The Case of Lena Smith as Lena Smith
1928
- Half a Bride as Patience Winslow
- The Sawdust Paradise as Hallie
- Love and Learn as Nancy Blair
- Something Always Happens as Diana Mallory
1927
- Children of Divorce as Jean Waddington
- The Spotlight as Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova
- Fashions for Women as Céleste de Givray and Lola Dauvry
- Figures Don't Lie as Janet Wells
- Ten Modern Commandments as Kitty O'Day
1926
- Old Ironsides as Girl
- The Quarterback as Louise Mason
- The American Venus as Mary Gray
- The Blind Goddess as Moira Devens
1925
- Womanhandled as Molly Martin
- The Best People as Alice O'Neil
- The Lucky Devil as Doris McDee
- A Kiss for Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
- The Little French Girl as Toppie Westmacott
- Beggar on Horseback as Cynthia Mason
- The Goose Hangs High as Dagmar Carroll
- The Trouble With Wives as Dagmar
1924
- Peter Pan as Mrs. Darling
- The Marriage Circle as Miss Hofer
- Wolves of the North as Madge Chester
- Jack O'Clubs
- $50,000 Reward as Carolyn Jordan
- The Heart Buster as Rose Hillyer
- All's Swell on the Ocean as Holly Malloy
- Fight and Win as Holly Malloy
1923
- The Prisoner as Marie
- Railroaded as Joan Dunster
- The Victor as Chewing gum baron's daughter
- The Wild Party as Bess Furth
- Blinky as Mary Lou Kileen
- Pure Grit as Stella Bolling
- The Rivals
- The Phantom Fortune as Mary Rogers
1922
- Oliver Twist as Rose Maylie
- Remembrance as Beatrice
- The Lone Hand
- Daring Danger as Ethel Stanton
- The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
- Youth to Youth
- Pure and Simple
1921
- The Kid as Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
- Crossing Trails as Helen Stratton
1920
- Huckleberry Finn as Mary Jane Wilks
- The Peddler of Lies
- Dangerous to Men
- Whispering Devils as Rose Gibbard
- The Butterfly Man as (uncredited)