Ruthelma Stevens

Acting

Ruthelma Stevens

Born — Died

1903-10-22 — 1984-06-01

Place of birth

Wichita, Kansas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

22 titles

Ruthelma Stevens (23 October 1903 – 1 June 1984) was an American film actress.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 4 titles

1930s · 16 titles

The Scarlet Empress poster
6.9

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

The Scarlet Empress

1934

Desirable poster
7.2

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Desirable

1934

The Working Man poster
6.5

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.

The Working Man

1933

Curtain at Eight poster
6.4

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?

Curtain at Eight

1933

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife poster
NR

A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

1933

People Will Talk poster
4.3

Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.

People Will Talk

1935

Life Begins poster
6.2

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.

Life Begins

1932

Ann Carver's Profession poster
7.0

Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.

Ann Carver's Profession

1933

The Night Club Lady poster
7.1

A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.

The Night Club Lady

1932

The Florentine Dagger poster
6.8

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

The Florentine Dagger

1935

The Circus Queen Murder poster
5.0

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.

The Circus Queen Murder

1933

The Chases of Pimple Street poster
7.3

In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.

The Chases of Pimple Street

1934

Orchids to You poster
6.0

An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

Orchids to You

1935

Chinatown Squad poster
7.5

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Chinatown Squad

1935

Vanity Street poster
7.1

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".

Vanity Street

1932

No More Orchids poster
6.7

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.

No More Orchids

1932