Esther Ralston
Birthday
1902/09/17
Day of death
1994/01/14 (91 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Also know as
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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.
Acting
(1923) The Prisoner
as Marie
(1926) The Blind Goddess
as Moira Devens
(1925) The Trouble With Wives
as Dagmar
(1924) The Heart Buster
as Rose Hillyer
(1920) The Butterfly Man
as (uncredited)
(1921) Crossing Trails
as Helen Stratton
(1924) Jack O'Clubs
as ---
(1934) Sadie McKee
as Dolly
(1925) The Best People
as Alice O'Neil
(1935) Mister Dynamite
as Charmian Dvorjak
(1927) Ten Modern Commandments
as Kitty O'Day
(1924) The Marriage Circle
as Miss Hofer
(1922) Pure and Simple
as ---
(1938) Letter of Introduction
as Mrs. Sinclair (uncredited)
(1924) Peter Pan
as Mrs. Darling
(1931) Lonely Wives
as Madeline Smith
(1922) The Lone Hand
as ---
(1923) Blinky
as Mary Lou Kileen
(1932) Rome Express
as Asta Marvelle
(1933) By Candlelight
as Baroness von Ballin
(1934) The Marines Are Coming
as Dorothy Manning
(1933) To the Last Man
as Ellen Colby
(1935) Shadows of the Orient
as Viola Avery
(1925) Womanhandled
as Molly Martin
(1935) Ladies Crave Excitement
as Miss Winkler
(1935) Streamline Express
as Elaine Vincent
(1936) We're in the Legion Now
as Louise Rillette
(1999) Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (archive footage)
(1937) Jungle Menace
as Valerie Shields
(1937) The Mysterious Pilot
as Vivian McNain
(1938) Slander House
as Ruth De Milo
(1924) $50,000 Reward
as Carolyn Jordan
(1922) Remembrance
as Beatrice
(1925) Beggar on Horseback
as Cynthia Mason
(1934) Strange Wives
as Olga
(1936) Reunion
as Janet Fair
(1922) Oliver Twist
as Rose Maylie
(1940) San Francisco Docks
as Frances March
(1926) Old Ironsides
as Esther
(1925) A Kiss for Cinderella
as Fairy Godmother
(1925) The Little French Girl
as Toppie Westmacott
(1931) The Prodigal
as Antonia Farraday
(1935) Together We Live
as Jenny
(1932) After the Ball
as Elissa Strange
(1993) The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
as Herself
(1920) Huckleberry Finn
as Mary Jane Wilks
(1936) Hollywood Boulevard
as Flora Moore
(1936) The Girl from Mandalay
as Mary Trevor
(1946) Jungle Terror
as Valarie Shields
(1923) The Victor
as Chewing gum baron's daughter
(1921) The Kid
as Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
(1935) Forced Landing
as Ruby Anatole
(1940) Tin Pan Alley
as Nora Bayes
(1928) The Sawdust Paradise
as Hallie
(1929) The Mighty
as Louise Patterson
(1938) The Spy Ring
as Jean Bruce (as Jane Carleton)
(1927) Children of Divorce
as Jean Waddington
(1926) The American Venus
as Mary Gray
(1927) The Spotlight
as Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova
(1925) The Lucky Devil
as Doris McDee
(1933) Black Beauty
as Leila Lambert
(1937) As Good as Married
as Miss Danforth
(1924) Wolves of the North
as Madge Chester
(1929) Betrayal
as Vroni
(1934) Romance in the Rain
as Gwen de la Rue
(1929) The Case of Lena Smith
as ---
(1927) Figures Don't Lie
as Janet Wells
(1928) Half a Bride
as Patience Winslow
(1927) Fashions for Women
as Céleste de Givray and Lola Dauvry
(1923) The Rivals
as ---
(1929) The Wheel of Life
as Ruth Dangan
(1926) The Quarterback
as Louise Mason
(1928) Love and Learn
as Nancy Blair
(1922) The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
as ---
(1924) All's Swell on the Ocean
as Holly Malloy
(1962) Our Five Daughters
as ---
(1951) Tales of Tomorrow
as ---