Ruthelma Stevens

Ruthelma Stevens

Birth : 1903-10-22, Wichita, Kansas, USA

Death : 1984-06-01

History

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

Profile

Ruthelma Stevens

Movies

Too Young to Kiss
Jeffrey's Mother (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Apache Drums
Betty Careless
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.
Trial Without Jury
Mrs. Mannings
A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.
The Fountainhead
Roark's Secretary (uncredited)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Not Wanted
Miss James
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
Orchids to You
Evelyn Bentley
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
Chinatown Squad
The Drunk's Wife
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
People Will Talk
Doris McBride
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.
The Florentine Dagger
Fraulein von Elsner (uncredited)
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
The Chases of Pimple Street
Celeste, Betty's Sister
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.
Desirable
Brunette in Theatre
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
The Scarlet Empress
Countess Elizabeth 'Lizzie'
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.
Curtain at Eight
Doris Manning
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?
The Working Man
Mrs. Price
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 Circus Queen Murder
Miss Kelly
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.
Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
Stoneage Opponent's Wife / Duchess of Worcestshire / Mrs. Haley
A Mack Sennett-produced sound short about couples playing bridge through the ages.
No More Orchids
Rita
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Vanity Street
Show Girl (uncredited)
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
The Night Club Lady
Miss Kelly
A police commissioner investigates the murder of a nightclub owner who was under police protection.