Esther Ralston
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.
Born: September 17, 1902
Place of Birth: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Known For
The Kid
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Womanhandled
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
As Good as Married
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Peter Pan
Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
The Lucky Devil
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
The Marriage Circle
An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.
Old Ironsides
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Valarie Shields
as Frances March
as Nora Bayes
as Ruth De Milo
as Mrs. Sinclair (uncredited)
as Jean Bruce (as Jane Carleton)
as Vivian McNain
as Valerie Shields
as Miss Danforth
as Louise Rillette
as Janet Fair
as Flora Moore
as Mary Trevor
as Ruby Anatole
as Elaine Vincent
as Jenny
as Viola Avery
as Miss Winkler
as Charmian Dvorjak
as Olga
as Dorothy Manning
as Gwen de la Rue
as Dolly
as Baroness von Ballin
as Ellen Colby
as Leila Lambert
as Elissa Strange
as Asta Marvelle
as Antonia Farraday
as Madeline Smith
as Louise Patterson
as Ruth Dangan
as Vroni
as Lena Smith
as Hallie
as Patience Winslow
as Diana Mallory
as Nancy Blair
as Lizzie Stokes / Olga Rostova
as Janet Wells
as Kitty O'Day
as Jean Waddington
as Céleste de Givray and Lola Dauvry
as Girl
as Louise Mason
as Moira Devens
as Mary Gray
as Molly Martin
as Fairy Godmother
as Alice O'Neil
as Dagmar
as Doris McDee
as Cynthia Mason
as Dagmar Carroll
as Toppie Westmacott
as Mrs. Darling
as Carolyn Jordan
as Madge Chester
as Holly Malloy
as Rose Hillyer
as Holly Malloy
as Miss Hofer
as Stella Bolling
as Bess Furth
as Mary Lou Kileen
as Joan Dunster
as Chewing gum baron's daughter
as Mary Rogers
as Marie
as Rose Maylie
as Beatrice
as Ethel Stanton
as Helen Stratton
as Extra in Heaven Scene (uncredited)
as Rose Gibbard
as (uncredited)
as Mary Jane Wilks