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
- Ready, Willing and Able as Junior's Mother
- The Go-Getter as Hospital Nurse with Bill (uncredited)
- The Great O'Malley as Nurse (uncredited)
- Alcatraz Island as Party Guest (uncredited)
- That Certain Woman as Mrs. Ransom - Rogers' Secretary (uncredited)
- That Man's Here Again as Hospital Nurse
- 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)
- Draegerman Courage as Nurse (uncredited)
- Missing Witnesses as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 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
- The Truth About Youth as Mrs. Ericson
- Little Accident as Mrs. Overbeck
1929
- The Wheel of Life as Mrs. Faraker
- The Sin Sister as Sister Burton
- The Jazz Age as Mrs Maxwell
- The Love Racket
1928
- Their Hour as Peggy's Mother
- Sporting Goods as Mrs. Elliott
1927
- No Place to Go as Mrs. Montgomery
- Alias The Deacon as Mrs. Betsy Clark
- The Life of Riley as Penelope Jones
- The Irresistible Lover as Hortense Brown
- The Black Diamond Express as Mrs. Harmon
- Women's Wares as Mrs. James Crane
1926
- The Prince of Pilsen as Princess Bertha of Thorwald
- The Far Cry as Louise Marsh
- 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
- If I Marry Again as Madame Margot
- The Mad Whirl as Gladys Herrington
- Sally as Mrs. Ten Brock
1924
- Wine as Mrs. Warriner
- The Breath of Scandal as Helen Hale
- The Woman on the Jury as Marion Masters
- Lilies of the Field as Mazie
- Judgment of the Storm as Mrs. Trevor
1923
- The Famous Mrs. Fair as Mrs. Fair
- The Dangerous Age as Mrs. Sanderson
- The Age of Desire as Janet Loring
- Flaming Youth as Mona Fentriss
- Crashin' Thru as Celia
- Six Days as Olive Kingston
- Temporary Marriage as Mrs. Hugh Manners
1922
- Rich Men's Wives as Mrs. Davenport
- The Hands of Nara as Vanessa Yates
- Nancy from Nowhere as Mrs. Halliday
- Ashes as Mrs. Crafton
- Reckless Youth as Mrs. Schuyler-Foster
1921
- Sowing the Wind as Baby Brabant
- Black Roses as Blanche De Vore
- The Concert as Mary Martinot
- The Whistle as Mrs. Chapple
1920
- Sex as Mrs. Overman
- The Tiger's Coat
- Harriet and the Piper as Isabelle Carter
- The Silver Horde as Cherry Malotté
- Old Dad as Virginia Bretton
1919
- The Teeth of the Tiger as Marie Forbes
- In Honor's Web as Olive Meade
1918
- In the Hollow of Her Hand as Sara Wrandell
1917
- Happiness of Three Women as Constance Barr
- The Rustler's Vindication
- The Prison Without Walls as Helen Ainsworth
- The World Apart as Beth Hoover
1916
- The Soul of Kura San as Anne Willoughby
- Pasquale as Banker's wife
- The Call of the Cumberlands as Adrienne Lescott
- The American Beauty as Ruth Cleave / Mrs. Ellsworth
1915
- Peer Gynt as Solveig
- The Caprices of Kitty as Elaine Vernon
- The Majesty of the Law as Virginia Fairfax
- It's No Laughing Matter as Bess Judd
- Nearly a Lady as Mrs. Reginald Brooks
- Hypocrites as The Woman (as Miss Myrtle Stedman)
- The Reform Candidate
- The Wild Olive as Miriam Strange, 'The Wild Olive'
- Kilmeny as Lady Leigh
1914
- Martin Eden
- The Valley of the Moon as Saxon
- The Chechako as Joy Gastell
- By Unseen Hand as Margaret Warrington
- The Pursuit of the Phantom as Helen Alden
- The Country Mouse as Myrtle Marshall
1913
- Religion and Gun Practice as Winona Judell
- The Law and the Outlaw as Grace
- Sallie's Sure Shot as Sallie
- Mother Love vs Gold as Mrs. Bryson
- That Mail Order Suit as Betty
- The Marshal's Capture as The Marshal's Wife
- The Rustler's Reformation
- The Escape of Jim Dolan as Grace Wellington
- The Sheriff of Yavapai County as Nellie Bowen (Bud's sweetheart)
- The Range Law as Dora
- The Life Timer as Mona
- Juggling with Fate as Dolores
- Taming a Tenderfoot as Jessie Reardon
- The Taming of Texas Pete as The Baby's Mother
- The Shotgun Man and the Stage Driver as One of the Girls
- Made a Coward as One of the Girls
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
- A Romance of the Rio Grande as Nellie Smith, Tom's Sweetheart
- The Bully of Bingo Gulch as Jess Lynd, Pop's Daughter
- Told in Colorado as Edythe Bellaires
- The Two Orphans as Countess de Linieres