Jobyna Ralston
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Jobyna Ralston (November 21, 1899 - January 22, 1967) was a notable silent film actress of the silent film era.
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Early life and career
Born Jobyna Lancaster Ralston in South Pittsburg, Tennessee in 1899 to parents who named her after famed entertainer of the time, Jobyna Howland. Ralston moved to New York City when she was eighteen and learned dancing. That would lead to her "break" with director Hal Roach, where she would star in one-reel comedies.Starring with Harold Loyd
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 famed silent comedian Harold Lloyd in Why Worry?, and for the next five years appeared in six of Lloyd's acclaimed feature films as his leading lady. Ralston brought both emotional depth and comedic talent to these films, and it is for these performances and her onscreen chemistry with Lloyd that she is best remembered today. In 1927 she co-starred in the William Wellman drama Wings, which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. She married one of her co-stars, Richard Arlen the next year. They had one child Richard Arlen Jr.\"Talkies\" and retirement
Ralston would star in eleven more silent films. She last starred in two "talkies" before retiring in 1931. Ralston and Richard Arlen would divorce in 1945 and she would spend the rest of her life suffering from rheumatism and a series of strokes before passing away in 1967 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
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