Myrtle Stedman — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Myrtle Stedman has an histrionic foundation that she gained by starting her screen career in the early days.

She was born in Chicago and educated in a girl’s school there. She studied dramatics and her first efforts on the stage were in musical comedy and light opera.

For a few years she played in stock and then went on the road.

About the time she landed in California the Selig [William Nicholas Selig] company was rivaling any other single film producing company then operating, and Miss Stedman was made leading lady of the Western branch of Selig’s and sent to Prescott, Arizona, where she remained until the company was called back to California. Then she was placed in feature films that at that time had attained the length of four reels.

Later she became an established leading lady in the film industry. For Lasky [Jesse L. Lasky] Miss Stedman worked in the film The Soul of Kura San with Sessue Hayakawa, and from there she went to Vitagraph, where she was cast in “In Honor’s Web.” Productions that followed were: “In the Hollow of Her Hand,” The Silver Horde, The Teeth of the Tiger, Sex, “Harriet and the Piper,” “Old Dad,” “The Concert” and Black Roses.

Then Miss Stedman retired from the screen for many months, and it is only recently that she has returned.

Her late productions have been for the Louis B. Mayer company, where she has had featured roles in all-star casts. The latest of these films is The Famous Mrs. Fair.

Miss Stedman’s hobbies are singing, motoring and golf. She has blonde hair and blue eyes, weighs about 128 pounds and is five feet four inches tall.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)