Sneha Girap (Editor)

Jobyna Ralston

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Cause of death  Pneumonia
Parents  Kemp Raulston
Role  Film actress

Name  Jobyna Ralston
Years active  1919–1931
Children  Richard Arlen Jr.
Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston

Full Name  Jobyna Lancaster Raulston
Born  November 21, 1899 (1899-11-21) South Pittsburg, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting place  San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Los Angeles, California
Died  January 22, 1967, Woodland Hills, California, United States
Spouse  Richard Arlen (m. 1927–1945), John Campbell
Movies  Wings, Girl Shy, The Freshman, The Kid Brother, Why Worry?
Similar People  Richard Arlen, Fred C Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Ted Wilde, William A Wellman

Jobyna ralston tribute


Jobyna Ralston (November 21, 1899 – January 22, 1967) was an American stage and film actress.

Contents

Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston

Movie legends jobyna ralston


Early life and career

Jobyna Ralston wwwsilentsaregoldencomphotos3jobynaralston3jpg

Born Jobyna Lancaster Raulston in South Pittsburg, Tennessee in 1899 to parents who named her after famed entertainer of the time, Jobyna Howland. Ralston's mother, a portrait photographer, carefully groomed her daughter for a show business career.

Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston things Pinterest Results Film and Actresses

At the age of nine she gave her first stage performance as Cinderella during the grand opening of the Wilson theatre/Opera House in 1909. Around 1915, Ralston attended acting school in New York. She later danced chorus and sang in Broadway productions, her first being Two Little Girls in Blue. This production marked her Broadway debut, when she was 21. Comedian Max Linder saw her on stage and persuaded her to go to Hollywood, where she appeared in a number of his films. She also co-starred in Humor Risk (1921), the fabled lost comedy short film that was to be the film debut of the Marx Brothers. Soon director Hal Roach began to star the actress in one-reel comedies. She abandoned the stage for the screen in 1922 when her mother's health began to decline, and she needed to make more money to help pay the medical bills.

Starring with Harold Lloyd

Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston and Harold Lloyd in THE KID BROTHER 1927 Silent

In 1923 she was named by the film industry as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. This award was given every year to the top up and coming female stars. This same year she starred with silent comedian Harold Lloyd in Why Worry?, and for the next five years appeared in six of Lloyd's feature films as his leading lady. It is for these performances and her onscreen chemistry with Lloyd that she is best remembered today. She would start the trend for romantic comedies with Girl Shy (1924).

Silent film career

Jobyna Ralston Silent Era People

As a freelance actress, Ralston co-starred with Richard Arlen, in the first Oscar-winning film, Wings (1927). She had a feature role in the film, which also featured Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, and Buddy Rogers. She would star in eleven more motion pictures, among them Special Delivery (1927) co-starring Eddie Cantor. Her film career ended after two early talkies when she became a mother. Her last talkie, Rough Waters (1930), found her acting with Rin Tin Tin.

Personal life and death

Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston Pinterest

Ralston was married twice, the first time to childhood beau John Campbell, the second in 1927 to actor Richard Arlen, whom she had met on the set of Wings. They had one child, actor Richard Arlen, Jr. The family appears together in Hollywood on Parade # A-4. Ralston and Arlen divorced in 1945.

Jobyna Ralston Jobyna Ralston in The Freshman 1925 Jobyna Ralston WAMPAS Baby

During the last five years of her life Ralston suffered from rheumatism and had a series of strokes. She died in 1967 from pneumonia at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. She was 67 years old.

References

Jobyna Ralston Wikipedia