Esther Ralston

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1902-09-17 (92 years old)

Deathday

1994-01-14

Place of Birth

Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Esther Ralston

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

1924

The Heart Buster

as Rose Hillyer

1920

The Butterfly Man

as (uncredited)

1921

Crossing Trails

as Helen Stratton

1934

Sadie McKee

as Dolly

1925

The Best People

as Alice O'Neil

1935

Mister Dynamite

as Charmian Dvorjak

1927

1924

The Marriage Circle

as Miss Hofer

1938

Letter of Introduction

as Mrs. Sinclair (uncredited)

1924

Peter Pan

as Mrs. Darling

1931

Lonely Wives

as Madeline Smith

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

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

1936

Reunion

as Janet Fair

1922

Oliver Twist

as Rose Maylie

1940

San Francisco Docks

as Frances March

1926

1925

A Kiss for Cinderella

as Fairy Godmother

1925

The Little French Girl

as Toppie Westmacott

1931

The Prodigal

as Antonia Farraday

1935

1932

After the Ball

as Elissa Strange

1920

Huckleberry Finn

as Mary Jane Wilks

1936

Hollywood Boulevard

as Flora Moore

1936

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

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

1929

Betrayal

as Vroni

1924

Wolves of the North

as Madge Chester

1934

Romance in the Rain

as Gwen de la Rue

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

1929

The Wheel of Life

as Ruth Dangan

1926

The Quarterback

as Louise Mason

1928

Love and Learn

as Nancy Blair

1924

1928

Something Always Happens

as Diana Mallory

1923

The Phantom Fortune

as Mary Rogers

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