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
- The Mysterious Pilot as Vivian McNain
- As Good as Married as Miss Danforth
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
- Ladies Crave Excitement as Miss Winkler
- Forced Landing as Ruby Anatole
- Mister Dynamite as Charmian Dvorjak
- Together We Live as Jenny
- Shadows of the Orient as Viola Avery
1934
- Sadie McKee as Dolly
- Strange Wives as Olga
- Romance in the Rain as Gwen de la Rue
- The Marines Are Coming as Dorothy Manning
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 Mighty as Louise Patterson
- 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
- Fashions for Women as Céleste de Givray and Lola Dauvry
- Children of Divorce as Jean Waddington
- The Spotlight as Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova
- 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
- The Lucky Devil as Doris McDee
- Beggar on Horseback as Cynthia Mason
- A Kiss for Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
- The Best People as Alice O'Neil
- Womanhandled as Molly Martin
- The Trouble With Wives as Dagmar
- The Little French Girl as Toppie Westmacott
- The Goose Hangs High as Dagmar Carroll
1924
- The Marriage Circle as Miss Hofer
- Peter Pan as Mrs. Darling
- Fight and Win as Holly Malloy
- All's Swell on the Ocean as Holly Malloy
- $50,000 Reward as Carolyn Jordan
- Wolves of the North as Madge Chester
- Jack O'Clubs
- The Heart Buster as Rose Hillyer
1923
- Pure Grit as Stella Bolling
- Blinky as Mary Lou Kileen
- Railroaded as Joan Dunster
- The Prisoner as Marie
- The Victor as Chewing gum baron's daughter
- The Rivals
- The Wild Party as Bess Furth
- The Phantom Fortune as Mary Rogers
1922
- Daring Danger as Ethel Stanton
- Oliver Twist as Rose Maylie
- Youth to Youth
- Remembrance as Beatrice
- The Lone Hand
- The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
- Pure and Simple
1921
- The Kid as Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
- Crossing Trails as Helen Stratton
1920
- Huckleberry Finn as Mary Jane Wilks
- Whispering Devils as Rose Gibbard
- Dangerous to Men
- The Butterfly Man as (uncredited)
- The Peddler of Lies