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Merta Sterling (1883–1944)

Actress

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Silent screen comedienne, former burlesque artist, with the Kalem Company from 1915.

Born:

Merta Sterling Norrie
in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA

Died:

(age 60) in Hollywood, California, USA

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1927 Paid to Love
Maid
 
1924 Star Dust Trail
The Maid
 
1924 Women First
Mandy Lee
 
1924 Darwin Was Right
Liza (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1924 William Tell (short)
William Tell's Wife
 
1924 The Golf Bug (short)
 
1923 Scorching Sands (short)
 
1923 The Handy Man (short)
The cook
 
1920 Their First Tintype (short)
 
1920 A Shotgun Wedding (short)
 
1920 Profiteering Blues (short)
 
1920 You Tell 'Em, Lions, I Roar (short)
 
1920 Brownie, the Peacemaker (short)
 
1920 Up in Mary's Attic
Lena Gerst
 
1920 Lion's Jaws and Kitten's Paws (short)
 
1920 My Salomy Lions (short)
 
1920 Lion Paws and Lady Fingers (short)
 
1920 A Lion's Alliance (short)
 
1920 Good Little Brownie (short)
 
1919 A Lucky Dog's Day (short)
 
1919 The Janitor
Hefty Hilda
 
1919 Romeos and Jolly Juliets (short)
 
1919 Daring Lions and Dizzy Lovers (short)
 
1919 The Sage-Brush League (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1918 Rough on Husbands (short)
 
1918 The King of the Kitchen (short)
 
1918 A Clean Sweep (short)
 
1918 The Donkey Did It (short)
 
1918 Cannibals and Carnivals (short)
 
1917 Deep Seas and Desperate Deeds (short)
 
1917 Fat and Furious
 
1917 Prairie Chicken (short)
 
1917 The Little Fat Rascal (short)
 
1917 Blackboards and Blackmail (short)
 
1917 Her Daring, Caring Ways (short)
Little Mert
 
1917 Chicken Chased and Henpecked (short)
Mrs. Henpeck
 
1917 Dry Goods and Damp Deeds (short)
 
1917 Good Little Bad Boy (short)
 
1917 Tom's Tramping Troupe (short)
 
1917 Love and Blazes (short)
 
1917 Nabbing a Noble (short)
 
1917 Defective Detectives (short)
 
1917 Summer Boarders (short)
 
1917 After the Balled-Up Ball (short)
The Fat Lady
 
1917 Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (short) (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1917 Faking Fakirs (short)
 
1917 A Limburger Cyclone (short) (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1916 The Star Boarders (short) (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1916 A Mix-Up in Art (short)
 
1916 A Watery Wooing (short)
 
1916 When Opportunity Knocked (short)
 
1916 A Smoky Adventure (short)
 
1916 The Bogus Ghost (short) (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1916 Not What the Doctor Ordered (short)
 
1916 Counting Out the Count (short)
 
1916 Fashion and Fury (short) (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1916 Bungling Bill, Detective (short)
 
1916 From Altar to Halter (short)
Wife in Nightmare (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1916 Search Me! (short)
 
1916 A Molar Mix-Up (short) (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1915 The Bandits of Macaroni Mountain (short)
Mrs. Doughbags (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1915/II Almost a King (short)
The Queen (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1915 Adam's Ancestors (short)
Mrs. Jim Quince (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1915 Nearly a Bride (short)
Mrs. High Jinks - Citronella's Mother (as Myrta Sterling)
 
1915 The Spook Raisers (short)
Madame De Shivers - a Spiritualist (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1915 Rival Waiters (short)
Mrs. Junker (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1915 Raskey's Road Show (short)
Madame Duffy - the Lion Tamer (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1915 The Actress and the Cheese Hound (short)
Mrs. Fossil (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1915 Willie Whipple's Dream (short)
Mrs. Willie Whipple (as Myrtle Sterling)
 
1914 The Fascinating Eye (short)
 
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Alternate Names:

Myrta Sterling | Myrtle Sterling

Height:

5' 1" (1.55 m)
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Trivia:

Silent screen comedienne, former burlesque artist, with the Kalem Company from 1915. See more »

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