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Ruthelma Stevens

Ruthelma Stevens

Acting

Biography

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

Known For

Apache Drums
6.3

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Apache Drums

1951
The Fountainhead
6.9

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

The Fountainhead

1949
The Scarlet Empress
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
Life Begins
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
Too Young to Kiss
5.1

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.

Too Young to Kiss

1951
Curtain at Eight
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
Desirable
7.2

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

Desirable

1934
Vanity Street
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
Not Wanted
6.8

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.

Not Wanted

1949
No More Orchids
6.8

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
Ann Carver's Profession
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 Working Man
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
Chinatown Squad
7.5

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

Chinatown Squad

1935
The Florentine Dagger
6.8

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

The Florentine Dagger

1935
Orchids to You
6.0

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

Orchids to You

1935
People Will Talk
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
The Circus Queen Murder
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
Trial Without Jury
7.0

A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.

Trial Without Jury

1950
Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife
N/A

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

Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife

1933
The Night Club Lady
7.1

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

The Night Club Lady

1932