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