Year of Birth
Many sources cite 1907 as the actress's year of birth, which is incorrect. Martha Sleeper was born just after the 1910 census which is why she does not appear in it; she is 9 years old in the 1920 census and 19 years old in the 1930 census.
At her death in 1983 the New York Times obit for her read "Dead at 72". In the Social Security Death Index, the date of birth of Martha Stelling (her third husband's surname) who died in March 1983 in Beaufort County, South Carolina is given as June 24, 1910.
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