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- Birth nameZerita M Stepteau
- Zerita Steptean was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an actress, known for Moon Over Harlem (1939) and Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941). She was previously married to Lewis Matthew Mitchell Jr..
- SpouseLewis Matthew Mitchell Jr.(August 9, 1932 - September 15, 1939) (divorced)
- The daughter of a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the sister of '20s band leader Harold Stepteau, Zerita Stepteau grew up in San Antonio, Texas, where she taught school for a time; she was active in community theater before and after her marriage to a local dentist.
- A 1929 graduate of Howard University in Washington, D. C., USA, majoring in education and minoring in music. She directed the Ambrose Smith Orchestra at the Rio Rita Club in Baltimore in 1932, and wrote a number of popular tunes.
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