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
- Slander House as Ruth De Milo
- The Spy Ring as Jean Bruce (as Jane Carleton)
- Letter of Introduction as Mrs. Sinclair (uncredited)
1937
- As Good as Married as Miss Danforth
- Jungle Menace as Valerie Shields
- The Mysterious Pilot as Vivian McNain
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Flora Moore
- Reunion as Janet Fair
- We're in the Legion Now as Louise Rillette
- The Girl from Mandalay as Mary Trevor
1935
- Together We Live as Jenny
- Streamline Express as Elaine Vincent
- Ladies Crave Excitement as Miss Winkler
- Forced Landing as Ruby Anatole
- Shadows of the Orient as Viola Avery
- Mister Dynamite as Charmian Dvorjak
1934
- Sadie McKee as Dolly
- Strange Wives as Olga
- The Marines Are Coming as Dorothy Manning
- Romance in the Rain as Gwen de la Rue
1933
- To the Last Man as Ellen Colby
- By Candlelight as Baroness von Ballin
- Black Beauty as Leila Lambert
1932
- Rome Express as Asta Marvelle
- After the Ball as Elissa Strange
1931
- Lonely Wives as Madeline Smith
- The Prodigal as Antonia Farraday
1929
- The Mighty as Louise Patterson
- Betrayal as Vroni
- The Case of Lena Smith as Lena Smith
- The Wheel of Life as Ruth Dangan
1928
- The Sawdust Paradise as Hallie
- Something Always Happens as Diana Mallory
- Half a Bride as Patience Winslow
- Love and Learn as Nancy Blair
1927
- Children of Divorce as Jean Waddington
- Figures Don't Lie as Janet Wells
- The Spotlight as Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova
- Fashions for Women as Céleste de Givray and Lola Dauvry
- Ten Modern Commandments as Kitty O'Day
1926
- Old Ironsides as Girl
- The Quarterback as Louise Mason
- The Blind Goddess as Moira Devens
- The American Venus as Mary Gray
1925
- The Trouble With Wives as Dagmar
- The Best People as Alice O'Neil
- The Goose Hangs High as Dagmar Carroll
- A Kiss for Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
- The Lucky Devil as Doris McDee
- Beggar on Horseback as Cynthia Mason
- The Little French Girl as Toppie Westmacott
- Womanhandled as Molly Martin
1924
- Peter Pan as Mrs. Darling
- Wolves of the North as Madge Chester
- The Marriage Circle as Miss Hofer
- Fight and Win as Holly Malloy
- Jack O'Clubs
- All's Swell on the Ocean as Holly Malloy
- The Heart Buster as Rose Hillyer
- $50,000 Reward as Carolyn Jordan
1923
- Railroaded as Joan Dunster
- Pure Grit as Stella Bolling
- The Prisoner as Marie
- Blinky as Mary Lou Kileen
- The Victor as Chewing gum baron's daughter
- The Wild Party as Bess Furth
- The Phantom Fortune as Mary Rogers
- The Rivals
1922
- Oliver Twist as Rose Maylie
- Daring Danger as Ethel Stanton
- The Lone Hand
- Youth to Youth
- Pure and Simple
- Remembrance as Beatrice
- The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
1921
- The Kid as Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
- Crossing Trails as Helen Stratton
1920
- Whispering Devils as Rose Gibbard
- Dangerous to Men
- The Peddler of Lies
- Huckleberry Finn as Mary Jane Wilks
- The Butterfly Man as (uncredited)