Martha Sleeper | |
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![]() Sleeper in 1935 | |
Born | Lake Bluff, Illinois, U.S. | June 24, 1910
Died | March 25, 1983 Beaufort, South Carolina, U.S. | (aged 72)
Occupation(s) | Actress; businesswoman |
Years active | 1923–1945 (Acting) |
Spouses | Harry Deutschbein
(m. 1944, divorced)Col. Howard C. Stelling
(m. 1969) |
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,[1] at his New York dancing studio. Her first public exhibitions were at Carnegie Hall at his class exhibitions.