Esther Ralston
Date of birth: 1902-09-17
Place of birth: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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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The Prisoner
1923-03-18
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and fin
The Blind Goddess
1926-04-04
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. Hi
The Trouble With Wives
1925-09-28
William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vi
The Heart Buster
1924-07-06
Rose Hillyer, the sweetheart of cowboy Tod Walton, is about to marry Edward Gordon a slick con-man a
The Butterfly Man
1920-04-18
Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie
Crossing Trails
1921-11-23
Helen, wrongly suspected of murder, escapes to the refuge of Jim's Ranch, where love soon blooms.
Sadie McKee
1934-05-09
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Jack O'Clubs
1924-02-01
A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the
The Best People
1925-11-09
Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "
Mister Dynamite
1935-04-22
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
Ten Modern Commandments
1927-07-27
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
The Marriage Circle
1924-02-10
An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, s
Pure and Simple
1922-01-01
Pure and Simple is a 1922 silent film
Letter of Introduction
1938-08-05
An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter show
Peter Pan
1924-12-29
Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them of
Lonely Wives
1931-02-15
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law t
The Lone Hand
1922-10-16
Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, b
Blinky
1923-08-17
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed
Rome Express
1932-10-31
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Pari
By Candlelight
1933-12-18
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
The Marines Are Coming
1934-11-19
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is
To the Last Man
1933-09-15
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison
Shadows of the Orient
1935-07-06
A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"
Womanhandled
1925-12-27
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Gr
Ladies Crave Excitement
1935-06-21
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Streamline Express
1935-09-15
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a
We're in the Legion Now
1936-12-13
Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999-06-14
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews wit
Jungle Menace
1937-09-01
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
The Mysterious Pilot
1937-12-09
Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowde
Slander House
1938-10-04
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the
$50,000 Reward
1924-12-02
Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a n
Remembrance
1922-10-01
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless effor
Beggar on Horseback
1925-06-05
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy
Strange Wives
1934-11-30
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Reunion
1936-11-20
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into
Oliver Twist
1922-10-30
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv
San Francisco Docks
1940-12-25
Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, a
Old Ironsides
1926-12-06
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron
A Kiss for Cinderella
1925-12-22
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
The Little French Girl
1925-02-01
Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents i
The Prodigal
1931-02-21
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy
Together We Live
1935-08-16
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who
After the Ball
1932-11-23
The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a hand
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
1993-06-30
A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
Huckleberry Finn
1920-02-29
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his
Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of
The Girl from Mandalay
1936-04-19
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Fost
Jungle Terror
1946-06-01
Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.
The Victor
1923-06-01
In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and
The Kid
1921-01-21
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan
Forced Landing
1935-12-02
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers ar
Tin Pan Alley
1940-11-29
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla
The Sawdust Paradise
1928-06-28
She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable,
The Mighty
1929-11-16
In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then return
The Spy Ring
1938-01-08
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when
Children of Divorce
1927-04-25
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, bu
The American Venus
1926-01-31
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the
The Spotlight
1927-11-19
Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better
The Lucky Devil
1925-07-13
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-
Black Beauty
1933-04-01
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has sta
As Good as Married
1937-05-09
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax
Wolves of the North
1924-09-21
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements
Betrayal
1929-05-11
André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a
Romance in the Rain
1934-08-13
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cind
The Case of Lena Smith
1929-01-19
A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is consid
Figures Don't Lie
1927-10-08
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene p
Half a Bride
1928-06-16
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love.
Fashions for Women
1927-03-26
Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all
The Rivals
1923-12-31
A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Rals
The Wheel of Life
1929-06-15
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dan
The Quarterback
1926-10-11
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Col
Love and Learn
1928-01-14
In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's s
The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
1922-02-28
A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, an
All's Swell on the Ocean
1924-08-18
Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As
Something Always Happens
1928-03-28
The Phantom Fortune
1923-03-19
Dangerous to Men
1920-04-05
When noted scientist John Vandam dies in the Orient, he leaves the guardianship of his eighteen-year
Pure Grit
1923-12-31
Posing as Stella Bolling's brother, whom he has killed, escaped convict Jim Kemp persuades Stella to