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Vera Ralston is a Actor Tchecoslovaque born on 12 july 1920 at Prague (Republique tcheque)

Vera Ralston

Vera Ralston
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Birth name Věra Helena Hrubá
Nationality Tchecoslovaquie
Birth 12 july 1920 at Prague (Republique tcheque)
Death 9 february 2003 (at 82 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)

Vera Ralston (née Vera Hruba Ralston) est une actrice d'origine tchèque (naturalisée américaine), de son vrai nom Věra Helena Hrubá, née le 12 juillet 1919 à Prague (République tchèque, alors Tchécoslovaquie), morte le 9 février 2003 à Santa Barbara (Californie).

Biography

Dans un premier temps patineuse artistique, Věra Hrubá représente notamment son pays natal aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1936 à Garmisch-Partenkirchen, en épreuve individuelle. Vers la fin des années 1930, elle participe également à des revues sur glace, entre autres en tournée aux États-Unis, pays où elle émigre en 1939, fuyant le nazisme.

Repérée par Herbert J. Yates (1880-1966), patron de Republic Pictures, elle apparaît comme patineuse dans deux films musicaux sortis en 1941 et 1942 et se retrouve sous contrat en 1943 au sein de cette compagnie. Sous le pseudonyme de Vera Hruba Ralston (simplifié plus tard en Vera Ralston), elle obtient ensuite le premier rôle féminin dans La Femme et le Monstre et Tempête sur Lisbonne, sortis en 1944, tous deux réalisés par George Sherman, avec Richard Arlen et Erich von Stroheim.

Naturalisée américaine en 1946 et devenue la compagne (puis l'épouse en 1952) d'Herbert J. Yates, elle contribue en tout à vingt-six films américains (tous produits par Republic Pictures). Parmi eux figurent onze westerns, dont deux aux côtés de John Wayne et de son compatriote Hugo Haas, La Femme du pionnier (1945) de Joseph Kane — qui réalise treize de ses films — et Le Bagarreur du Kentucky (1949) de George Waggner. Par exception, elle participe aussi à un film tchèque sorti en 1947.

En 1958 (année où sortent les deux derniers films de l'actrice), Herbert J. Yates se retire de Republic Pictures, suivi par sa femme (veuve à la mort du magnat, avant un remariage) qui abandonne ainsi définitivement l'écran.

Une étoile est dédiée à Vera Ralston sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard, pour sa contribution au cinéma.

Usually with

Joseph Kane
Joseph Kane
(8 films)
Adele Palmer
Adele Palmer
(8 films)
Paul Fix
Paul Fix
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Vera Ralston (20 films)

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Actress

The FBI Story, 1h53
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Ann Doran, Nick Adams
Rating64% 3.2472753.2472753.2472753.2472753.247275
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) narrates the story of a murder, which the viewer sees in a flashback. Young Jack Graham (Nick Adams), takes out life insurance on his mother and plants a bomb in her luggage for a flight that she was taking from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, November 1, 1955.
The Notorious Mr. Monks, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Vera Ralston, Paul Fix, Leo Gordon, Luana Anders, Tom Brown, Lyle Talbot
Roles Angela Monks
Rating60% 3.042993.042993.042993.042993.04299
Accused of Murder, 1h14
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors David Brian, Sidney Blackmer, Vera Ralston, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Lee Van Cleef
Roles Ilona Vance
Rating55% 2.79792.79792.79792.79792.7979
Nightclub singer Ilona Vance (Vera Ralston) is accused of murder, as she was the last person to see crooked attorney Frank Hobart (Sidney Blackmer) alive. Lt. Hargis (David Brian) attempts to prove her innocence.
Fair Wind to Java, 1h32
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas, Victor McLaglen, John Russell, Claude Jarman Jr.
Roles Kim Kim
Rating57% 2.853522.853522.853522.853522.85352
In 1883, the Boston, Massachusetts, company that owns the full-rigged sailing ship Gerrymander gives the ship's captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit for the company in the Gerrymander‍ '​s operations in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a trade exclusion policy that prevents him from carrying goods between ports in the islands, Boll looks for a way for the Gerrymander to make money. In Soerabaja on Java, Boll encounters an Indonesian whose life he once saved. The Indonesian tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon, contrary to legend which says the diamonds were lost. The Indonesian directs Boll to a Chinese junk captain who has cargo that will lead Boll to the diamonds.
Hoodlum Empire, 1h38
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler, John Russell
Roles Marte 'Marty' Dufour Gray
Rating60% 3.002283.002283.002283.002283.00228
Former gangster Joe Gray (Russell) joined the army during World War II and became a hero is now leading a respectable life. When he is called before a grand jury to testify against organized crime activities, his former mobster colleagues prepare to take measures to ensure that he doesn't.
The Wild Blue Yonder, 1h38
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan, William Ching
Roles Lt. Helen Landers
Rating62% 3.140673.140673.140673.140673.14067
In 1943, Capt. Harold "Cal" Calvert (Wendell Corey) is sent on a course at Smoky Hill, Kansas, to learn to fly a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. His instructor is his cousin, Major Tom West (Forrest Tucker), an officer who the other pilots think has shirked his duties by claiming engine trouble on the raid over the Ploesti oil fields. Cal stands up for Tom when a crewman taunts his cousin in front of Helen (Vera Ralston), a nurse that Tom has been seeing.
Belle Le Grand, 1h35
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Carroll, Vera Ralston, William Ching, Hope Emerson, Grant Withers, John Qualen
Roles Daisy Henshaw / Belle Le Grand
Rating60% 3.0484153.0484153.0484153.0484153.048415
Un propriétaire de mines d'or dans le Montana hésite entre deux sœurs, une chanteuse classique et une tenancière d'une maison de jeu, Belle Le Grand, tout juste sortie de prison après avoir été emprisonnée à la place de son mari.
Surrender
Surrender (1950)
, 1h30
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer, William Ching, Maria Palmer
Roles Violet Barton
Rating60% 3.041813.041813.041813.041813.04181
Après avoir laissé son mari Henry Vaan emprisonné à Houston, la belle Violet Barton, elle-même recherchée par la police de San Antonio, s'installe dans la ville frontière de La Mirada avec sa sœur Janet. Alors que Janet ouvre une boutique, Violet fait du charme à un joueur de blackjack pour qu'il vole de l'argent à son patron, Greg De Laney, afin de pouvoir lui acheter un bracelet. Lorsque Greg arrive chez elle pour récupérer ce bracelet, Violet flirte avec lui.
The Fighting Kentuckian, 1h40
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Marie Windsor, John Howard
Roles Fleurette De Marchand
Rating63% 3.196043.196043.196043.196043.19604
John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on. Throughout the film, Breen's soldiers sing:
Angel on the Amazon, 1h26
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Fortunio Bonanova, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Christine Ridgeway
Rating55% 2.768752.768752.768752.768752.76875
After a plane crashes in the Amazonian jungle, its passengers are rescued by a mysterious young woman.
The Flame
The Flame (1947)
, 1h37
Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford, Henry Travers, Blanche Yurka
Roles Carlotta Duval
Rating64% 3.237373.237373.237373.237373.23737
A man (Carroll) induces an ambitious nurse (Ralston) to marry his rich brother (Paige) for the money who has a terminal disease.