Myrtle Stedman
Born: 1883-03-03 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1938-01-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Myrtle Stedman (March 3, 1883 – January 8, 1938) was a leading lady and later character actress in motion pictures beginning in silent films in 1910. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at a private finishing school there. Miss Stedman performed in light opera and musical comedies there. Her voice was cultivated in France. Her tutor was Marchesi, who was known as one of the finest instructors of voice culture in his country. Myrtle did not enter the field of light opera because of her preference for light opera. She starred for a number of seasons in Isle of Spice and The Chocolate Soldier. She performed for a year at the Whitney Theater in Chicago and was a prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. Her first appearances in movies were in Selig studio western and action short films. Among her feature films are Flaming Youth, The Valley of the Moon, The Dangerous Age, and The Famous Mrs. Fair. In 1936, she was signed by Warner Brothers to play bit and extra roles. Her last release was Accidents Will Happen, in 1938. Myrtle Stedman died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California in 1938 at the age of 54. Interment at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood California. Her husband Marshall Stedman was a drama school conductor. They were divorced by 1920. Their son Lincoln Stedman was a prolific silent film character actor.
Filmography
1938
- A Slight Case of Murder as Nurse (uncredited)
- Accidents Will Happen as Professional Witness #2 (uncredited)
1937
- The Go-Getter as Hospital Nurse with Bill (uncredited)
- Alcatraz Island as Party Guest (uncredited)
- That Certain Woman as Mrs. Ransom - Rogers' Secretary (uncredited)
- Green Light as A Nurse
- The Great O'Malley as Nurse (uncredited)
- Missing Witnesses as Minor Role (uncredited)
- She Loved a Fireman as Mrs. Brown
- Draegerman Courage as Nurse (uncredited)
- Over the Goal as Marshall's Secretary
- Ready, Willing and Able as Junior's Mother
- Back in Circulation as Arlene's Maid (uncredited)
- That Man's Here Again as Hospital Nurse
- Under Southern Stars as Arlene's Mother
1936
- Song of the Saddle as Mrs. Coburn
- Give Me Liberty as Martha Washington
1935
- Here's to Romance as Bit Part
1934
- School for Girls as Mrs. Winters
- Beggars in Ermine as Nurse
1932
- The Widow in Scarlet as Alice Lawton-Bond
- Alias Mary Smith as Mrs. Hayes
- Klondike as Miss Fielding
1931
- Beau Ideal as Mrs. Frank Madison
1930
- Little Accident as Mrs. Overbeck
- The Truth About Youth as Mrs. Ericson
1929
- The Sin Sister as Sister Burton
- The Love Racket
- The Wheel of Life as Mrs. Faraker
- The Jazz Age as Mrs Maxwell
1928
- Their Hour as Peggy's Mother
- Sporting Goods as Mrs. Elliott
1927
- The Irresistible Lover as Hortense Brown
- Alias The Deacon as Mrs. Betsy Clark
- The Black Diamond Express as Mrs. Harmon
- No Place to Go as Mrs. Montgomery
- The Life of Riley as Penelope Jones
- Women's Wares as Mrs. James Crane
1926
- The Far Cry as Louise Marsh
- The Prince of Pilsen as Princess Bertha of Thorwald
- Don Juan's 3 Nights as Madame Cavallar
- The Man in the Shadow as Mary Alvoid
1925
- Chickie as Janina
- Tessie as Mrs. Wells
- The Goose Hangs High as Eunice Ingals
- The Mad Whirl as Gladys Herrington
- Sally as Mrs. Ten Brock
- If I Marry Again as Madame Margot
1924
- Wine as Mrs. Warriner
- Lilies of the Field as Mazie
- The Breath of Scandal as Helen Hale
- Judgment of the Storm as Mrs. Trevor
- The Woman on the Jury as Marion Masters
1923
- The Dangerous Age as Mrs. Sanderson
- The Age of Desire as Janet Loring
- Flaming Youth as Mona Fentriss
- Six Days as Olive Kingston
- The Famous Mrs. Fair as Mrs. Fair
- Crashin' Thru as Celia
- Temporary Marriage as Mrs. Hugh Manners
1922
- Nancy from Nowhere as Mrs. Halliday
- Rich Men's Wives as Mrs. Davenport
- The Hands of Nara as Vanessa Yates
- Reckless Youth as Mrs. Schuyler-Foster
- Ashes as Mrs. Crafton
1921
- Sowing the Wind as Baby Brabant
- The Whistle as Mrs. Chapple
- The Concert as Mary Martinot
- Black Roses as Blanche De Vore
1920
- Sex as Mrs. Overman
- The Tiger's Coat
- The Silver Horde as Cherry Malotté
- Old Dad as Virginia Bretton
- Harriet and the Piper as Isabelle Carter
1919
- In Honor's Web as Olive Meade
- The Teeth of the Tiger as Marie Forbes
1918
- In the Hollow of Her Hand as Sara Wrandell
1917
- The World Apart as Beth Hoover
- The Rustler's Vindication
- Happiness of Three Women as Constance Barr
- The Prison Without Walls as Helen Ainsworth
1916
- Pasquale as Banker's wife
- The Soul of Kura San as Anne Willoughby
- The American Beauty as Ruth Cleave / Mrs. Ellsworth
- The Call of the Cumberlands as Adrienne Lescott
1915
- Peer Gynt as Solveig
- The Caprices of Kitty as Elaine Vernon
- Nearly a Lady as Mrs. Reginald Brooks
- The Reform Candidate
- Hypocrites as The Woman (as Miss Myrtle Stedman)
- Kilmeny as Lady Leigh
- It's No Laughing Matter as Bess Judd
- The Majesty of the Law as Virginia Fairfax
- The Wild Olive as Miriam Strange, 'The Wild Olive'
1914
- Martin Eden
- The Chechako as Joy Gastell
- By Unseen Hand as Margaret Warrington
- The Valley of the Moon as Saxon
- The Country Mouse as Myrtle Marshall
- The Pursuit of the Phantom as Helen Alden
1913
- That Mail Order Suit as Betty
- Religion and Gun Practice as Winona Judell
- Sallie's Sure Shot as Sallie
- The Life Timer as Mona
- Mother Love vs Gold as Mrs. Bryson
- The Marshal's Capture as The Marshal's Wife
- Made a Coward as One of the Girls
- The Law and the Outlaw as Grace
- Taming a Tenderfoot as Jessie Reardon
- Juggling with Fate as Dolores
- The Rustler's Reformation
- The Range Law as Dora
- The Sheriff of Yavapai County as Nellie Bowen (Bud's sweetheart)
- The Escape of Jim Dolan as Grace Wellington
- The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver as One of the Girls
- The Taming of Texas Pete as The Baby's Mother
1912
- The Scapegoat as Nellie Wright - Tom's Sweetheart
- A War Time Romance as Alice Munroe - Jack's Sister
- A Cowboy's Best Girl as Alice Marson, the Real Best Girl
- So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law as So-Jun-Wah
1911
- Western Hearts as Mrs. Long
- A Romance of the Rio Grande as Nellie Smith, Tom's Sweetheart
- Told in Colorado as Edythe Bellaires
- The Bully of Bingo Gulch as Jess Lynd, Pop's Daughter
- The Two Orphans as Countess de Linieres