Martha Sleeper

Martha Sleeper was a silent film comedian of the 1920s and Broadway and film actress of the 1940s. 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.

Many sources had cited 1907 as Sleepers year of birth, but she was actually born shortly after the 1910 census was taken in April 1910. No Martha Sleeper appears in the 1910 census records however, a Martha Sleeper is listed asyears old in the 1920 census andyears old in the 1930 census . An airline passenger list, flight CBA 611 from St. Maarten to Charlotte Amalie, VI, onSep 1962, gives a birthdate of 6241910, in Illinois . A U.K. Incoming Passenger list for the RMS Queen Elizabeth, from New York to Southamptom, arrivingAug 1958, gives a birthdate of 24.6.10. The Social Security Death Index records the date of birth of a Martha Stelling who died in March 1983 in Beaufort County, South Carolina as June 24, 1910. Sleepers 1983 New York Times obituary, as well, was titled Martha Sleeper Is Dead At 72.

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