Vera Steadman

Acting

Vera Steadman

Born 1900-06-22 · Monterey, California, USA

Acting credits

Frisco Kid poster
7.0

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.

Frisco Kid

1935

The Doctor Takes a Wife poster
6.8

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.

The Doctor Takes a Wife

1940

Scrap Iron poster
7.0

John Steel is a poor boy with a gentle spirit, but he has a natural gift for fighting. His mother is a strict pacifist, so although he has opportunities to make a career as a boxer, he refuses--until hard times force him to enter the ring despite his mother's pleas.

Scrap Iron

1921

No artwork available
9.0

Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.

Happy Heels

1929

Prison Farm poster
6.8

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!)

Prison Farm

1938

A Home Spun Hero poster
9.0

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.

A Home Spun Hero

1920

No artwork available
NR

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?

The Freshman's Finish

1931

The Surf Girl poster
6.0

Many different people go swimming at a pool at Coney Island.

The Surf Girl

1916

Scamps and Scandals poster
5.8

Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.

Scamps and Scandals

1919

No artwork available
10.0

A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.

Elmer and Elsie

1934

No artwork available
NR

Silent Keystone Comedy dealing with a girl's college dorm.

Those College Girls

1915

Soup to Nuts poster
NR

Henry is expecting the new cook and when Sally, his wife's sister, appears, he immediately shows her the kitchen and orders her to serve food. When Henry's wife learns this she fears to present him as her husband, commands him to masquerade as the butler and calls in a friend to pose as her husband. The "butler" puts soap into the soup with the result that the sister-in-law and the other man become ill. When fire breaks out in the house the sister-in-law is trapped in her room and Bill thinks the terrible heat he feels is the result of fever from his illness. The fire brings on a climax in which the fire department performs and a series of hilarious gags are introduced.

Soup to Nuts

1925

Her Nature Dance poster
NR

An entomologist and his wife head out into the countryside for his studies and happen upon a group of free-spirited young dancers.

Her Nature Dance

1917

No artwork available
10.0

A Rin Tin Tin comedy spoof.

Run Tin Can

1926

The Drunkard poster
7.0

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

The Drunkard

1935

A Man's Game poster
10.0

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.

A Man's Game

1934

The Sultan's Wife poster
5.4

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.

The Sultan's Wife

1917

The Nervous Wreck poster
6.3

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.

The Nervous Wreck

1926

No artwork available
NR

Short comedy

Secrets of a Beauty Parlor

1917

No artwork available
7.0

Bobby Vernon tries to enter a house to court a lady, but keeps getting thrown out.

Exit Quietly

1921

Getting Gertie's Goat poster
6.3

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.

Getting Gertie's Goat

1924

Stop Flirting poster
3.7

On their honeymoon Vivian twice finds Perry in the arms of other women. Though Perry claims he was simply catching one who slipped, Vivian decides to teach him a lesson in fidelity. She begins aggressively flirting with every man she encounters, including a Scotsman, to make Perry jealous. To get back at her, Perry stages his own death in a plane crash, but when Vivian discovers the plane crash was a hoax, she is initially even more enraged. However, after a series of further misadventures, the couple eventually reconciles.

Stop Flirting

1925

Gambling with Souls poster
3.8

Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.

Gambling with Souls

1936

His Musical Sneeze poster
6.3

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.

His Musical Sneeze

1919