Gertrude Michael
Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911, Talladega, Alabama – December 31, 1964, Beverly Hills, California) was an American film, stage and television actress. Born as Lillian Gertrude Michael in Talladega, Alabama, she reportedly graduated from high school at the age of 14. She became a radio singer on the radio. She attended the University of Alabama and Converse College, Cincinnati. Her childhood home in Talladega, Alabama was destroyed by fire in 2007. In 1929 in Cincinnati she made her stage debut in a stock company. She subsequently appeared on Broadway in Rachel Crothers' Caught Wet (1931). She entered the movies playing Richard Arlen's finaceé in Wayward (1932), but her best-remembered role is probably as Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities (1934), one of the last pre-Code films, in which she sang an ode to marijuana (Sweet Marijuana). She had an affair with writer Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric).After they broke up, Cain wrote the role of the alcoholic lover (based on Michael) in his only novel published during his lifetime, Fast One. Gertrude Michael died, aged 53, from undisclosed causes, in Beverly Hills, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gertrude Michael,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 1961 · The Continental Twist as Letitia Clunker
- 1960 · The Case of the Dangerous Robin as Kay Salisbury
- 1958 · Sea Hunt as
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Helen Rucker
- 1955 · The 20th Century Fox Hour as
- 1955 · Women's Prison as Chief Matron Sturgess
- 1953 · No Escape as Olga Valerie Lewis
- 1952 · Cavalcade of America as Major Pauline Cushman
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Fanny
- 1952 · Bugles in the Afternoon as May
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as The Duchess
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as
- 1951 · Darling, How Could You! as Mrs. Rossiter
- 1950 · Caged as Georgia Harrison
- 1949 · Flamingo Road as Millie
- 1945 · Club Havana as Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
- 1945 · Allotment Wives as Gladys Smith
- 1945 · Three's a Crowd as Sophie Whipple
- 1944 · Faces in the Fog as Nora Brooks
- 1943 · Women in Bondage as District Director Schneider
- 1943 · Where Are Your Children? as Nell Wilson
- 1943 · Behind Prison Walls as Elinor Cantwell
- 1942 · Prisoner of Japan as Toni Chase
- 1940 · Slightly Tempted as Duchess
- 1940 · I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby as Magda Delys
- 1940 · The Farmer's Daughter as Clarice Sheldon
- 1940 · Parole Fixer as Collette Menthe
- 1940 · Pound Foolish as Mrs. Irene Reynolds
- 1939 · Just like a Woman as Ann Heston
- 1939 · Hidden Power as Virginia Garfield
- 1938 · Star of the Circus as Yester
- 1937 · Sophie Lang Goes West as Sophie Lang
- 1937 · Mr. Dodd Takes the Air as Jessica Stafford
- 1936 · Make Way for a Lady as Miss Eleanor Emerson
- 1936 · Second Wife as Virginia Howard
- 1936 · The Return of Sophie Lang as Sophie Lang
- 1936 · Till We Meet Again as Elsa Duranyi
- 1936 · Woman Trap as Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
- 1935 · The Last Outpost as Rosemary Haydon
- 1935 · Four Hours to Kill! as Mrs. Sylvia Temple
- 1935 · It Happened in New York as Vania Nardi
- 1934 · Father Brown, Detective as Evelyn Fischer
- 1934 · Menace as Helen Chalmers
- 1934 · Cleopatra as Calpurnia
- 1934 · The Notorious Sophie Lang as Sophie Lang
- 1934 · Murder on the Blackboard as Jane Davis
- 1934 · Murder at the Vanities as Rita Ross
- 1934 · The Witching Hour as Margaret Price
- 1934 · I Believed in You as Pamela Banks
- 1934 · Hold That Girl as Dorothy Lamont
- 1934 · George White's Scandals as Miss Lee
- 1934 · Bolero as Lady D'Argon
- 1934 · Search for Beauty as Jean Strange
- 1933 · Cradle Song as Marcella
- 1933 · I'm No Angel as Alicia Hatton
- 1933 · Ann Vickers as Mona Dolphin
- 1933 · Night of Terror as Sarah Rinehart
- 1933 · A Bedtime Story as Louise
- 1933 · Sailor Be Good as Kay Whitney
- 1932 · Unashamed as Marjorie
- 1932 · Wayward as Mary Morton