Esther Ralston at the height of her fame, 1920’s. To read Part I of this series, please click here . To read Part II, please click here . Broke, with her second marriage in shambles and her Hollywood career seriously compromised, Esther Ralston flees to New York in 1939 to find work and rebuild her shattered career. Esther, in her slim but resonant 1985 memoir, Some Day We’ll Laugh , tells us that she was forced to leave her …

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