Vera Steadman

Vera Steadman

Born: June 22, 1900
Died: December 14, 1966
in Monterey, California, USA

Movies for Vera Steadman...

The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Extra
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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Prison Farm
Title: Prison Farm
Character: Bit Role
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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Gambling with Souls
Title: Gambling with Souls
Character: Molly Murdock
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Telephone Operator
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
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A Man's Game
Title: A Man's Game
Character: Stenographer
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
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The Freshman's Finish
Title: The Freshman's Finish
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?
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Sappy Service
Title: Sappy Service
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
In the story, Dr. Huff is beating up process servers. While he doesn't mind that his wife is divorcing him, he feels he's too busy to go to court. Additionally, he's informed the hospital staff to NOT allow any of these process servers in the place. Unfortunately, Bobby (Bobby Vernon) is instructed to serve this angry doc.
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Happy Heels
Title: Happy Heels
Character: Betty
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.
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Campus Cuties
Title: Campus Cuties
Character: Betty
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's school, with the usual watchdogs on duty.
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Dizzy Sights
Title: Dizzy Sights
Character: Winnie
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
A sailor home from the sea sets off on a road trip to pick up his girlfriend from work. Unfortunately, he's a better sailor than he is a driver. Complications ensue.
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Easy Curves
Title: Easy Curves
Character: The Sailor's Sweetheart
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.
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Sailor Beware
Title: Sailor Beware
Character: Miss Von Ratseller
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck!
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The Nervous Wreck
Title: The Nervous Wreck
Character: Harriet Underwood
Released: October 9, 1926
Type: Movie
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
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Papa's Pest
Title: Papa's Pest
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
A husband wants to slip out of the house to go to a poker game, but his wife catches him, and he is forced to stay at home and mind her sister's baby. Neal goes to the poker game and takes the baby with him, but absentmindedly leaves him there when he goes home.
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Run Tin Can
Title: Run Tin Can
Character: Mary
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A Rin Tin Tin comedy spoof.
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Getting Gertie's Goat
Title: Getting Gertie's Goat
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
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Busy Buddies
Title: Busy Buddies
Released: January 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Three hungry pals go to great lengths to feed their appetite.
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Fool Proof
Title: Fool Proof
Character: Mary Wilson
Released: November 4, 1923
Type: Movie
A 1924 Neal Burns comedy. To show his son that there’s more to life than work, a rich man pretends he is getting married to a chorus girl.
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Exit Quietly
Title: Exit Quietly
Released: October 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Bobby Vernon tries to enter a house to court a lady, but keeps getting thrown out.
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813
Title: 813
Character: Vashti Seminoff
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
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A Home Spun Hero
Title: A Home Spun Hero
Released: October 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Bobby is in love with a stage actress and hangs around backstage during the performance. He makes a mess of things from time to time.
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Why Wild Men Go Wild
Title: Why Wild Men Go Wild
Character: Jimmie's sister
Released: August 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Party-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave man, Bobby jumps at the chance.
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His Musical Sneeze
Title: His Musical Sneeze
Released: February 22, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man goes into the woods to hunt rabbits, and winds up getting mixed up with a dog, a lion and a beautiful woman.
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It Pays to Exercise
Title: It Pays to Exercise
Character: Dental Office Girl / Gym Girl
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
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The Sultan's Wife
Title: The Sultan's Wife
Character: Harem Girl (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1917
Type: Movie
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
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Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Title: Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Released: April 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Short comedy
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Her Nature Dance
Title: Her Nature Dance
Character: Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Unknown if lost.
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The Surf Girl
Title: The Surf Girl
Character: Minor Role
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Many different people go swimming at a pool at Coney Island.