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)
- Draegerman Courage as Nurse (uncredited)
- Ready, Willing and Able as Junior's Mother
- Missing Witnesses as Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Great O'Malley as Nurse (uncredited)
- That Man's Here Again as Hospital Nurse
- Under Southern Stars as Arlene's Mother
- She Loved a Fireman as Mrs. Brown
- Green Light as A Nurse
- Over the Goal as Marshall's Secretary
- Back in Circulation as Arlene's Maid (uncredited)
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
- Alias Mary Smith as Mrs. Hayes
- Klondike as Miss Fielding
- The Widow in Scarlet as Alice Lawton-Bond
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 Jazz Age as Mrs Maxwell
- The Wheel of Life as Mrs. Faraker
- The Love Racket
1928
- Sporting Goods as Mrs. Elliott
- Their Hour as Peggy's Mother
1927
- The Black Diamond Express as Mrs. Harmon
- Alias The Deacon as Mrs. Betsy Clark
- Women's Wares as Mrs. James Crane
- The Irresistible Lover as Hortense Brown
- The Life of Riley as Penelope Jones
- No Place to Go as Mrs. Montgomery
1926
- The Prince of Pilsen as Princess Bertha of Thorwald
- The Far Cry as Louise Marsh
- The Man in the Shadow as Mary Alvoid
- Don Juan's 3 Nights as Madame Cavallar
1925
- Sally as Mrs. Ten Brock
- If I Marry Again as Madame Margot
- The Mad Whirl as Gladys Herrington
- The Goose Hangs High as Eunice Ingals
- Tessie as Mrs. Wells
- Chickie as Janina
1924
- Wine as Mrs. Warriner
- Lilies of the Field as Mazie
- The Woman on the Jury as Marion Masters
- Judgment of the Storm as Mrs. Trevor
- The Breath of Scandal as Helen Hale
1923
- Six Days as Olive Kingston
- The Age of Desire as Janet Loring
- Crashin' Thru as Celia
- The Famous Mrs. Fair as Mrs. Fair
- Flaming Youth as Mona Fentriss
- Temporary Marriage as Mrs. Hugh Manners
- The Dangerous Age as Mrs. Sanderson
1922
- Reckless Youth as Mrs. Schuyler-Foster
- Rich Men's Wives as Mrs. Davenport
- Ashes as Mrs. Crafton
- Nancy from Nowhere as Mrs. Halliday
- The Hands of Nara as Vanessa Yates
1921
- Sowing the Wind as Baby Brabant
- The Whistle as Mrs. Chapple
- The Concert as Mary Martinot
- Black Roses as Blanche De Vore
1920
- Old Dad as Virginia Bretton
- Sex as Mrs. Overman
- The Silver Horde as Cherry Malotté
- Harriet and the Piper as Isabelle Carter
- The Tiger's Coat
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 Prison Without Walls as Helen Ainsworth
- Happiness of Three Women as Constance Barr
- The Rustler's Vindication
1916
- The Call of the Cumberlands as Adrienne Lescott
- The Soul of Kura San as Anne Willoughby
- Pasquale as Banker's wife
- The American Beauty as Ruth Cleave / Mrs. Ellsworth
1915
- Hypocrites as The Woman (as Miss Myrtle Stedman)
- Kilmeny as Lady Leigh
- The Reform Candidate
- Nearly a Lady as Mrs. Reginald Brooks
- The Caprices of Kitty as Elaine Vernon
- The Wild Olive as Miriam Strange, 'The Wild Olive'
- It's No Laughing Matter as Bess Judd
- Peer Gynt as Solveig
- The Majesty of the Law as Virginia Fairfax
1914
- Martin Eden
- The Chechako as Joy Gastell
- The Pursuit of the Phantom as Helen Alden
- The Country Mouse as Myrtle Marshall
- By Unseen Hand as Margaret Warrington
- The Valley of the Moon as Saxon
1913
- The Escape of Jim Dolan as Grace Wellington
- Made a Coward as One of the Girls
- The Marshal's Capture as The Marshal's Wife
- Juggling with Fate as Dolores
- Religion and Gun Practice as Winona Judell
- The Range Law as Dora
- The Taming of Texas Pete as The Baby's Mother
- The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver as One of the Girls
- Mother Love vs Gold as Mrs. Bryson
- That Mail Order Suit as Betty
- Taming a Tenderfoot as Jessie Reardon
- The Law and the Outlaw as Grace
- The Rustler's Reformation
- The Life Timer as Mona
- Sallie's Sure Shot as Sallie
- The Sheriff of Yavapai County as Nellie Bowen (Bud's sweetheart)
1912
- So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law as So-Jun-Wah
- A Cowboy's Best Girl as Alice Marson, the Real Best Girl
- The Scapegoat as Nellie Wright - Tom's Sweetheart
- A War Time Romance as Alice Munroe - Jack's Sister
1911
- The Two Orphans as Countess de Linieres
- The Bully of Bingo Gulch as Jess Lynd, Pop's Daughter
- Told in Colorado as Edythe Bellaires
- A Romance of the Rio Grande as Nellie Smith, Tom's Sweetheart
- Western Hearts as Mrs. Long