Acting

Martha Sleeper

Born June 24, 1910 · Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA

Died March 25, 1983 · aged 72

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martha Sleeper (June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983) was a film actress of the 1920s–1930s and, later, a Broadway stage actress. She studied dancing for five years with Russian ballet master, Louis H. Chalif, at his New York dancing studio. Her first public exhibitions were at Carnegie Hall at his class exhibitions. Sleeper's film career began in 1923 and continu…

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Madam Satan

Madam Satan · 1930

MovieRomanceMusic

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's · 1945

The Bells of St. Mary's

MovieDramaComedy

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.

Rasputin and the Empress

Rasputin and the Empress · 1932

Rasputin and the Empress

MovieDramaHistory

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Penthouse

Penthouse · 1933

MovieCrimeDrama

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

Jewish Prudence

Jewish Prudence · 1927

Jewish Prudence

Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary · 1933

MovieCrimeDrama

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.

The Mailman

The Mailman · 1923

MovieCrimeDrama

Veteran postman Bob Morley and his son Johnnie are honored for their service to the U. S. Mail Service. When Johnnie takes a position on the Enterprise, he is falsely convicted of theft and murder when the cargo is stolen and the ship's officer is shot.

The Secret of Madame Blanche

The Secret of Madame Blanche · 1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

MovieDramaRomance

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

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Madam Satan

Madam Satan · 1930

MovieRomanceMusic

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

Fish Girl

The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St. Mary's · 1945

The Bells of St. Mary's

MovieDramaComedy

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.

Mary Gallagher

Rasputin and the Empress

Rasputin and the Empress · 1932

Rasputin and the Empress

MovieDramaHistory

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Party Girl (uncredited)

Penthouse

Penthouse · 1933

MovieCrimeDrama

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.

Sue Leonard

Jewish Prudence

Jewish Prudence · 1927

Jewish Prudence

Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.

Rachel Gimplewart

Midnight Mary

Midnight Mary · 1933

MovieCrimeDrama

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.

Barbara

The Mailman

The Mailman · 1923

MovieCrimeDrama

Veteran postman Bob Morley and his son Johnnie are honored for their service to the U. S. Mail Service. When Johnnie takes a position on the Enterprise, he is falsely convicted of theft and murder when the cargo is stolen and the ship's officer is shot.

Betty

The Secret of Madame Blanche

The Secret of Madame Blanche · 1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

MovieDramaRomance

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

Chorus Girl Who Hears 'My Country Tis of Thee' (Uncredited)

Bombshell

Bombshell · 1933

MovieComedyRomance

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Lola's Hair Stylist (uncredited)

Our Blushing Brides

Our Blushing Brides · 1930

Our Blushing Brides

Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their affections — one bedding a married man and the other marrying a scoundrel — Gerry is determined to remain practical. As she mothers her wounded, heartbroken friends, she stalwartly but foolishly resists the advances of the good-hearted and affluent Tony Jardine.

Evelyn Woodforth

Huddle

MovieDramaRomance

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.

Barbara

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party · 1934

Hollywood Party

MovieComedyMusic

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Show Girl (uncredited)

Sure-Mike!

Sure-Mike! · 1925

Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she relies on her friendship with the store manager. But she is soon disillusioned as to where she really stands with the manager.

Vermuda

Sweet Daddy

Sweet Daddy · 1924

Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.

Daughter

Confessions of a Co-Ed

Confessions of a Co-Ed · 1931

Confessions of a Co-Ed

A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.

Lucille

Great God Gold

Great God Gold · 1935

Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.

Marcia Harper

Rhythm on the Range

Rhythm on the Range · 1936

Rhythm on the Range

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

Constance Hyde

Crazy Like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox · 1926

Crazy Like a Fox

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

The bride

Outdoor Pajamas

Outdoor Pajamas · 1924

Outdoor Pajamas

This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only dressed in his pajamas. As he makes his way to the church he finds one disaster after another.

Girl with Runaway Pony

Sex and the College Girl

Sex and the College Girl · 1964

Sex and the College Girl

MovieRomanceDrama

This early 1960s film depicts the trivial pursuits and relationships of two college age girls on a weekend vacation to a luxury resort in Puerto Rico.

Costume Supervisor

Four Days Wonder

Four Days Wonder · 1936

Four Days Wonder

Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton into her Sherlock shenanigans.

Nancy Fairbrother

Ten Cents a Dance

Ten Cents a Dance · 1931

Ten Cents a Dance

MovieDramaRomance

A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

Nancy Clark

Thundering Fleas

Thundering Fleas · 1926

Thundering Fleas

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

Bride

A Punch in the Nose

A Punch in the Nose · 1926

A Punch in the Nose

A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.