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Esther Ralston

Born 17 September 1902 in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA, as Esther Louise Worth.
Died 14 January 1994 in Ventura, California, USA, of a heart attack.

Married actor George Webb, 25 December 1925; one child; divorced, 7 March 1934.
Married actor Will Morgan, 9 June 1935; divorced, 25 April 1938.
Married Theodore Allen Lloyd, 5 August 1939; two children; divorced, 24 November 1953.

Esther Ralston began in motion pictures in 1915 for World Film Corporation. Roles were mixed with live performances with her family and Esther began getting more substantial roles in the early 1920s for independent producers, and for Metro Pictures Corporation and Universal Pictures Corporation. In 1924, Esther signed a contract with Paramount Pictures Corporation who gave her major supporting and leading roles. Among her best-known silent era films are The Marriage Circle (1924), Peter Pan (1924), A Kiss for Cinderella (1925), Old Ironsides (1926), Children of Divorce (1927) and The Case of Lena Smith (1929).

Ralston intermittently continued acting into the 1960s.

References: Website-IMDb.