Cast
Martha Sleeper
Acting
Cast
Martha Sleeper
Known for
Acting
Born
1910-06-24
From
Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA
Died
1983-03-25
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.
★5.6
MOVIE1927
Fluttering Hearts
as Daughter
★6.0
MOVIE1924
Outdoor Pajamas
as Girl with Runaway Pony
★9.0
MOVIE1923
The Mailman
as Betty
★9.0
MOVIE1924
Sweet Daddy
as Daughter
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Sure-Mike!
as Vermuda
★6.8
MOVIE1945
The Bells of St. Mary's
as Mary Gallagher
★8.0
MOVIE1928
Skinner's Big Idea
as Dorothy
★6.8
MOVIE1931
Ten Cents a Dance
as Nancy Clark
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Danger Street
as Kitty
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Huddle
as Barbara
★10.0
MOVIE1925
There Goes the Bride
as Imogene-the Bride
★6.6
MOVIE1928
Pass the Gravy
as Daughter
★5.5
MOVIE1932
Rasputin and the Empress
as Party Girl (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1933
Midnight Mary
as Barbara
★10.0
MOVIE1929
The Voice of the Storm
as Ruth
★5.8
MOVIE1926
Bromo and Juliet
as Bit Role (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1926
Long Fliv the King
as Princess Helga of Thermosa
★6.2
MOVIE1926
Crazy Like a Fox
as The bride
★7.0
MOVIE1924
The Royal Razz
★5.7
MOVIE1934
Hollywood Party
as Show Girl (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1924
Too Many Mammas
as The Apache Dancer
★10.0
MOVIE1934
Tomorrow's Youth
as Ellen Hall
★9.0
MOVIE1929
The Air Legion
as Sally
★5.6
MOVIE1930
Our Blushing Brides
as Evelyn Woodforth
★5.9
MOVIE1930
Madam Satan
as Fish Girl
★10.0
MOVIE1931
Girls Demand Excitement
as Harriet Mundy
★7.0
MOVIE1927
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
as The Fiancée
★10.0
MOVIE1924
The Racing Kid
★4.2
MOVIE1933
The Secret of Madame Blanche
as Chorus Girl Who Hears 'My Country Tis of Thee' (Uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1925
Plain and Fancy Girls
as Fiance
★5.5
MOVIE1936
Rhythm on the Range
as Constance Hyde
★6.8
MOVIE1933
Penthouse
as Sue Leonard
★7.0
MOVIE1934
West of the Pecos
as Ril Lambeth
★6.8
MOVIE1925
The Rat's Knuckles
as Flirty McFickle
★6.3
MOVIE1935
The Scoundrel
as Julia Vivian
★6.0
MOVIE1926
Thundering Fleas
as Bride
★6.2
MOVIE1931
Confessions of a Co-Ed
as Lucille
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Bombshell
as Lola's Hair Stylist (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1927
Love 'em and Feed 'em
as Martha, a stenographer
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Spitfire
as Eleanor Stafford
★4.6
MOVIE1926
What's the World Coming To?
as The Butler
★6.1
MOVIE1926
Mum's the Word
as The Nervous Little Girl
★5.8
MOVIE1925
Should Sailors Marry?
as Smyrna, Verbena's Daughter
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Four Days Wonder
as Nancy Fairbrother
★5.2
MOVIE1930
War Nurse
as Helen
★6.5
MOVIE1925
Big Red Riding Hood
as Book store clerk
★6.3
MOVIE1926
Along Came Auntie
as Marie, the Maid
★8.0
MOVIE1925
Laughing Ladies
★7.0
MOVIE1931
A Tailor-Made Man
as Corrine
★6.5
MOVIE1928
Should Tall Men Marry?
as Martha Skittle
★6.8
MOVIE1927
Jewish Prudence
as Rachel Gimplewart
★6.0
MOVIE1961
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1926
Say It with Babies
as Hector's Wife
★8.0
MOVIE1926
Don Key (Son of Burro)
★6.5
MOVIE1926
Madame Mystery
★5.8
MOVIE1927
Flaming Fathers
as Daughter
★7.0
MOVIE1927
Fighting Fathers
as Max's Daughter
★7.3
MOVIE1925
Bad Boy
as Jimmie's Girl Friend
★9.0
MOVIE1925
Sherlock Sleuth
as Hotel Telephone Operator
★7.0
MOVIE1925
Innocent Husbands
as Girl at Party (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1924
All Wet
as Boarding house maid (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Great God Gold
as Marcia Harper
★6.0
MOVIE1924
A Ten-Minute Egg
as Mrs. Dugan
★9.0
MOVIE1928
Taxi 13
as Flora Mactavish
★7.2
MOVIE1925
Better Movies
as Teenaged 'Vamp'
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Broken Dreams
as Martha Morley
★10.0
MOVIE1926
A Punch in the Nose
★9.5
MOVIE1935
Two Sinners
as Elsie Summerstone
★6.5
MOVIE1924
Seeing Nellie Home
★9.0
MOVIE1928
The Little Yellow House
as Emmy Milburn