(Courtesy of Les Adams) Above are Bob Steele and Eleanor Stewart enjoying a tender moment in a lobby card from THE GUN RANGER (A. W. Hackel/Republic, 1937).

Pretty and talented Eleanor Stewart hailed from Chicago and attended Northwestern University. After winning a talent contest in the mid 1930s, she went to Hollywood and MGM. Stewart wound up free-lancing at various studios and production companies, and you can spot her as the heroine in about a dozen mid to late 1930s westerns with Bob Steele, Tex Ritter, Jack Randall, Bob Custer, Ken Maynard, Tom Keene, Jack Luden, Bob Allen, and Republic's Three Mesquiteers. In the 1940s, she did three of the Hopalong Cassidy films with William Boyd.

To some, her best role is portraying "Janet Warfield" in the serial THE FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS (Republic, 1938).

Eleanor retired in the mid 1940s to raise her daughter Karen. Her movie career lasted about ten years and consisted of about three dozen films.

The obituary notice in the North County Times newspaper (California) notes that "Eleanor Stewart Greiner, 94, died of Alzheimer's disease Wednesday, July 4, 2007", she was "born Feb. 2, 1913, in Chicago" and had "lived in Rancho Bernardo (California) for 32 years".

  Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Eleanor Stewart: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0829362/

Am not sure how long the obituary notice will remain online. Click HERE for the notice at the North County Times newspaper, or HERE for that same obituary at the Legacy.com website.

(From Old Corral image collection) Above, a blue duotone 1950 re-release title card for Bob Steele's THE GUN RANGER (A. W. Hackel/Republic, 1937). Pretty Eleanor Stewart is the heroine, and on the right is Ernie Adams. Steele's father, Robert North Bradbury, was the director. (From Old Corral image collection) From L-to-R are Eleanor Stewart, kindly ol' Lafe McKee and star Bob Allen putting the grips on Wally Wales/Hal Taliaferro in this 1937 release. Herman Hack is the the player between Allen and Taliaferro/Wales. (Courtesy of Wes Baker) Above is a far shot and a crop/closeup. Driving the stage is Silver Tip Baker. On the ground from L-to-R are: Eleanor Stewart, Tom Keene, Lorraine Randall, Charles K. French, and stage guard Victor Adamson/Denver Dixon. Scene from the Keene starrer WHERE TRAILS DIVIDE (1937).