Esther Ralston

Esther Ralston

Birthday: 1902-09-17

Place of Birth: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

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
The Prisoner

While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and fin...

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The Blind Goddess
The Blind Goddess

Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. Hi...

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The Trouble With Wives
The Trouble With Wives

William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vi...

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The Heart Buster
The Heart Buster

Rose Hillyer, the sweetheart of cowboy Tod Walton, is about to marry Edward Gordon a slick con-man a...

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The Butterfly Man
The Butterfly Man

Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie ...

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Crossing Trails
Crossing Trails

Helen, wrongly suspected of murder, escapes to the refuge of Jim's Ranch, where love soon blooms....

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Sadie McKee
Sadie McKee

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house....

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Jack O'Clubs
Jack O'Clubs

A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the...

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The Best People
The Best People

Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "...

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Mister Dynamite
Mister Dynamite

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino....

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Ten Modern Commandments
Ten Modern Commandments

A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer....

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The Marriage Circle
The Marriage Circle

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, s...

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Pure and Simple
Pure and Simple

Pure and Simple is a 1922 silent film...

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Letter of Introduction
Letter of Introduction

An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter show...

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Peter Pan
Peter Pan

Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them of...

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Lonely Wives
Lonely Wives

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law t...

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The Lone Hand
The Lone Hand

Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, b...

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Blinky
Blinky

Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed...

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Rome Express
Rome Express

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Pari...

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By Candlelight
By Candlelight

A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince....

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The Marines Are Coming
The Marines Are Coming

Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is ...

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To the Last Man
To the Last Man

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison ...

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Shadows of the Orient
Shadows of the Orient

A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"...

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Womanhandled
Womanhandled

Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Gr...

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Ladies Crave Excitement
Ladies Crave Excitement

Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures....

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Streamline Express
Streamline Express

A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a ...

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We're in the Legion Now
We're in the Legion Now

Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion....

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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews wit...

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Jungle Menace
Jungle Menace

Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest....

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The Mysterious Pilot
The Mysterious Pilot

Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowde...

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Slander House
Slander House

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the ...

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$50,000 Reward
$50,000 Reward

Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a n...

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Remembrance
Remembrance

Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless effor...

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Beggar on Horseback
Beggar on Horseback

Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy...

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Strange Wives
Strange Wives

When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family....

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Reunion
Reunion

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into...

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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

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San Francisco Docks
San Francisco Docks

Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, a...

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Old Ironsides
Old Ironsides

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron...

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A Kiss for Cinderella
A Kiss for Cinderella

An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie....

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The Little French Girl
The Little French Girl

Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents i...

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The Prodigal
The Prodigal

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy...

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Together We Live
Together We Live

A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who...

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After the Ball
After the Ball

The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a hand...

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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era....

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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his ...

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Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...

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The Girl from Mandalay
The Girl from Mandalay

John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Fost...

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Jungle Terror
Jungle Terror

Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace....

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The Victor
The Victor

In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and...

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The Kid
The Kid

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan...

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Forced Landing
Forced Landing

In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers ar...

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Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla...

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The Sawdust Paradise
The Sawdust Paradise

She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, ...

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The Mighty
The Mighty

In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then return...

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The Spy Ring
The Spy Ring

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when ...

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Children of Divorce
Children of Divorce

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, bu...

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The American Venus
The American Venus

A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the...

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The Spotlight
The Spotlight

Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better...

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The Lucky Devil
The Lucky Devil

Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-...

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Black Beauty
Black Beauty

Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has sta...

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As Good as Married
As Good as Married

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax...

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Betrayal
Betrayal

André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a...

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Wolves of the North
Wolves of the North

Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements ...

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Romance in the Rain
Romance in the Rain

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cind...

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The Case of Lena Smith
The Case of Lena Smith

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is consid...

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Figures Don't Lie
Figures Don't Lie

Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene p...

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Half a Bride
Half a Bride

Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. ...

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Fashions for Women
Fashions for Women

Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all ...

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The Rivals
The Rivals

A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Rals...

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The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life

British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dan...

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The Quarterback
The Quarterback

Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Col...

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Love and Learn
Love and Learn

In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's s...

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The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, an...

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All's Swell on the Ocean
All's Swell on the Ocean

Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As ...

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Something Always Happens
Something Always Happens

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The Phantom Fortune
The Phantom Fortune

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Dangerous to Men
Dangerous to Men

When noted scientist John Vandam dies in the Orient, he leaves the guardianship of his eighteen-year...

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Pure Grit
Pure Grit

Posing as Stella Bolling's brother, whom he has killed, escaped convict Jim Kemp persuades Stella to...

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Youth to Youth
Youth to Youth

A pretty young girl from the country arrives in New York, hoping to become a Broadway star. She achi...

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Daring Danger
Daring Danger

Rancher Cal Horton, who has suffered considerably at the hands of cattle rustlers who have become a ...

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The Peddler of Lies
The Peddler of Lies

At a party thrown at the Metcalf estate, the Marquise D'Irancy's Sultana diamond disappears when the...

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Whispering Devils
Whispering Devils

Michael Faversham, a puritanical minister determined to stomp out immorality, orders one of his pari...

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Railroaded
Railroaded

Richard Garbin, willful son of Judge Garbin, one of England's most prominent jurists, is railroaded ...

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The Goose Hangs High
The Goose Hangs High

Having a municipal position, Bernard Ingals has almost bankrupted himself sending his three children...

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The Wild Party
The Wild Party

Leslie Adams, secretary to the city editor of a newspaper, persuades him to let her write up a socie...

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Fight and Win
Fight and Win

Fight and Win is a 1924 American silent drama serial film directed by Erle C. Kenton....

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