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
- That Certain Woman as Mrs. Ransom - Rogers' Secretary (uncredited)
- The Great O'Malley as Nurse (uncredited)
- Back in Circulation as Arlene's Maid (uncredited)
- The Go-Getter as Hospital Nurse with Bill (uncredited)
- Ready, Willing and Able as Junior's Mother
- Over the Goal as Marshall's Secretary
- Alcatraz Island as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Missing Witnesses as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Draegerman Courage as Nurse (uncredited)
- That Man's Here Again as Hospital Nurse
- Green Light as A Nurse
- She Loved a Fireman as Mrs. Brown
- 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
- Klondike as Miss Fielding
- Alias Mary Smith as Mrs. Hayes
1931
- Beau Ideal as Mrs. Frank Madison
1930
- The Truth About Youth as Mrs. Ericson
- Little Accident as Mrs. Overbeck
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
- No Place to Go as Mrs. Montgomery
- The Irresistible Lover as Hortense Brown
- The Black Diamond Express as Mrs. Harmon
- Women's Wares as Mrs. James Crane
- Alias The Deacon as Mrs. Betsy Clark
- The Life of Riley as Penelope Jones
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
- If I Marry Again as Madame Margot
- The Goose Hangs High as Eunice Ingals
- Tessie as Mrs. Wells
- The Mad Whirl as Gladys Herrington
- Sally as Mrs. Ten Brock
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 Famous Mrs. Fair as Mrs. Fair
- Flaming Youth as Mona Fentriss
- The Age of Desire as Janet Loring
- Six Days as Olive Kingston
- Temporary Marriage as Mrs. Hugh Manners
- Crashin' Thru as Celia
1922
- Nancy from Nowhere as Mrs. Halliday
- Rich Men's Wives as Mrs. Davenport
- Ashes as Mrs. Crafton
- The Hands of Nara as Vanessa Yates
- Reckless Youth as Mrs. Schuyler-Foster
1921
- Sowing the Wind as Baby Brabant
- The Whistle as Mrs. Chapple
- Black Roses as Blanche De Vore
- The Concert as Mary Martinot
1920
- Sex as Mrs. Overman
- Old Dad as Virginia Bretton
- The Tiger's Coat
- The Silver Horde as Cherry Malotté
- 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
- Happiness of Three Women as Constance Barr
- The Prison Without Walls as Helen Ainsworth
- The Rustler's Vindication
1916
- Pasquale as Banker's wife
- The American Beauty as Ruth Cleave / Mrs. Ellsworth
- The Soul of Kura San as Anne Willoughby
- The Call of the Cumberlands as Adrienne Lescott
1915
- Hypocrites as The Woman (as Miss Myrtle Stedman)
- Peer Gynt as Solveig
- The Caprices of Kitty as Elaine Vernon
- Nearly a Lady as Mrs. Reginald Brooks
- The Majesty of the Law as Virginia Fairfax
- The Reform Candidate
- It's No Laughing Matter as Bess Judd
- Kilmeny as Lady Leigh
- The Wild Olive as Miriam Strange, 'The Wild Olive'
1914
- Martin Eden
- The Chechako as Joy Gastell
- The Valley of the Moon as Saxon
- The Country Mouse as Myrtle Marshall
- By Unseen Hand as Margaret Warrington
- The Pursuit of the Phantom as Helen Alden
1913
- Mother Love vs Gold as Mrs. Bryson
- Made a Coward as One of the Girls
- The Marshal's Capture as The Marshal's Wife
- The Escape of Jim Dolan as Grace Wellington
- The Life Timer as Mona
- The Law and the Outlaw as Grace
- That Mail Order Suit as Betty
- Taming a Tenderfoot as Jessie Reardon
- The Sheriff of Yavapai County as Nellie Bowen (Bud's sweetheart)
- The Rustler's Reformation
- Sallie's Sure Shot as Sallie
- The Range Law as Dora
- Religion and Gun Practice as Winona Judell
- Juggling with Fate as Dolores
- 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 Cowboy's Best Girl as Alice Marson, the Real Best Girl
- A War Time Romance as Alice Munroe - Jack's Sister
- So-Jun-Wah and the Tribal Law as So-Jun-Wah
1911
- Western Hearts as Mrs. Long
- Told in Colorado as Edythe Bellaires
- A Romance of the Rio Grande as Nellie Smith, Tom's Sweetheart
- The Two Orphans as Countess de Linieres
- The Bully of Bingo Gulch as Jess Lynd, Pop's Daughter