Martha Sleeper
Acting
Born 1910-06-24
Died 1983-03-25
Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA
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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.
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Acting
57 credits
The Bells of St. Mary's
Sure-Mike!
Fluttering Hearts
The Mailman
Outdoor Pajamas
Sweet Daddy
Rasputin and the Empress
Ten Cents a Dance
Madam Satan
Huddle
Hollywood Party
Bombshell
Penthouse
Rhythm on the Range
Girls Demand Excitement
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Long Fliv the King
Crazy Like a Fox
Spitfire
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Midnight Mary
Danger Street
Our Blushing Brides
The Air Legion
War Nurse
Too Many Mammas
Confessions of a Co-Ed
Taxi 13
Skinner's Big Idea
The Rat's Knuckles
West of the Pecos
Pass the Gravy
All Wet
The Scoundrel
Broken Dreams
Sex and the College Girl
Bromo and Juliet
Along Came Auntie
The Voice of the Storm
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Plain and Fancy Girls
Flaming Fathers
Thundering Fleas
There Goes the Bride
Should Sailors Marry?
Mum's the Word
Big Red Riding Hood
Bad Boy
Fighting Fathers
The Racing Kid
A Tailor-Made Man
Tomorrow's Youth
Say It with Babies
Two Sinners
A Ten-Minute Egg
Innocent Husbands
Four Days Wonder
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