Esther Ralston

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1902-09-17

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.

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Acting History

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