Martha Sleeper
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1910-06-24
Deathday 1983-03-25 (72 years old)
Place of Birth Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA
Martha Sleeper
Biography
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 continued until 1945. Her first screen appearance, at the age of 13, was in The Mailman (1923), an independent production. After appearing in several kiddie comedies at the Christie studio she was signed by the Hal Roach studio for the Our Gang" series but she quickly outgrew that role. From 1925-27 she appeared in comedies playing opposite the studio's most popular male stars. She left the Roach studio in late 1927 and moved to the FBO studio where she starred in six silent features during 1928–29. With the coming of sound she was signed by MGM and placed in their training program. From 1930 to 1936 she played supporting roles in many melodramas her role typically that of a well-bred somewhat snobbish society woman who ends up losing her man to the film's leading lady. Frustrated by the types of roles she was being offered, Martha began playing onstage in and about Los Angeles, at one point drawing raves as Eliza Doolittle in a performance of Pygmalion in 1932. After appearing in some low budget melodramas for the poverty row Monogram studio Martha and her husband, actor Hardie Albright, left Hollywood for New York in 1936 where Martha began a long run in both on- and off-Broadway plays. In 1945, as a favor to director Leo McCarey, Martha played the role of Patsy's mother in The Bells of St. Mary's. It was her last screen role.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Mary Gallagher
as Nancy Fairbrother
as Constance Hyde
as Elsie Summerstone
as Julia Vivian
as Marcia Harper
as Ril Lambeth
as Ellen Hall
as Show Girl (uncredited)
as Eleanor Stafford
as Martha Morley
as Lola's Hair Stylist (uncredited)
as Sue Leonard
as Barbara
as Chorus Girl Who Hears 'My Country Tis of Thee' (Uncredited)
as Party Girl (uncredited)
as Barbara
as Lucille
as Corrine
as Harriet Mundy
as Nancy Clark
as Helen
as Fish Girl
as Evelyn Woodforth
as Flora Mactavish
as Kitty
as Emmy Milburn
as Martha Skittle
as Daughter
as Daughter
as Martha, a stenographer
as Daughter
as Rachel Gimplewart
as The Fiancée
as Bit Role (uncredited)
as The bride
as Marie, the Maid
as Bride
as Princess Helga of Thermosa
as Hector's Wife
as The Nervous Little Girl
as The Butler
as Smyrna, Verbena's Daughter
as Teenaged 'Vamp'
as Girl at Party (uncredited)
as Hotel Telephone Operator
as Vermuda
as Book store clerk
as Jimmie's Girl Friend
as Fiance
as Flirty McFickle
as Imogene-the Bride
as The Apache Dancer
as Girl with Runaway Pony
as Daughter
as Mrs. Dugan
as Boarding house maid (uncredited)
Costume & Make-Up
as Costume Supervisor