Gertrude Michael
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 1, 1911
- Died
- December 31, 1964 (aged 53)
- Birthplace
- Talladega, Alabama, USA
Biography
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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The Continental Twist
Movie · as Letitia Clunker
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
TV · as Kay Salisbury · 1 ep
Sea Hunt
TV · 1 ep
Perry Mason
TV · as Helen Rucker · 1 ep
Women's Prison
Movie · as Chief Matron Sturgess
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · 1 ep
No Escape
Movie · as Olga Valerie Lewis
Bugles in the Afternoon
Movie · as May
Cavalcade of America
TV · as Major Pauline Cushman · 1 ep
Four Star Playhouse
TV · as Fanny · 1 ep
Darling, How Could You!
Movie · as Mrs. Rossiter
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · 1 ep
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as The Duchess · 1 ep
Caged
Movie · as Georgia Harrison
Flamingo Road
Movie · as Millie
Allotment Wives
Movie · as Gladys Smith
Three's a Crowd
Movie · as Sophie Whipple
Club Havana
Movie · as Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
Faces in the Fog
Movie · as Nora Brooks
Women in Bondage
Movie · as District Director Schneider
Where Are Your Children?
Movie · as Nell Wilson
Behind Prison Walls
Movie · as Elinor Cantwell
Prisoner of Japan
Movie · as Toni Chase
Slightly Tempted
Movie · as Duchess
Parole Fixer
Movie · as Collette Menthe
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie · as Clarice Sheldon
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Movie · as Magda Delys
Pound Foolish
Movie · as Mrs. Irene Reynolds
Hidden Power
Movie · as Virginia Garfield
Just like a Woman
Movie · as Ann Heston
Star of the Circus
Movie · as Yester
Sophie Lang Goes West
Movie · as Sophie Lang
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Movie · as Jessica Stafford
Second Wife
Movie · as Virginia Howard
Make Way for a Lady
Movie · as Miss Eleanor Emerson
Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Elsa Duranyi
The Return of Sophie Lang
Movie · as Sophie Lang
Woman Trap
Movie · as Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
Forgotten Faces
Movie · as Cleo / Harry's wife
The Last Outpost
Movie · as Rosemary Haydon
Four Hours to Kill!
Movie · as Mrs. Sylvia Temple
It Happened in New York
Movie · as Vania Nardi
Cleopatra
Movie · as Calpurnia
Murder at the Vanities
Movie · as Rita Ross
Murder on the Blackboard
Movie · as Jane Davis
Bolero
Movie · as Lady D'Argon
The Witching Hour
Movie · as Margaret Price
Father Brown, Detective
Movie · as Evelyn Fischer
Search for Beauty
Movie · as Jean Strange
Menace
Movie · as Helen Chalmers
George White's Scandals
Movie · as Miss Lee
Hold That Girl
Movie · as Dorothy Lamont
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Movie · as Sophie Lang
I Believed in You
Movie · as Pamela Banks
I'm No Angel
Movie · as Alicia Hatton
Ann Vickers
Movie · as Mona Dolphin
Night of Terror
Movie · as Sarah Rinehart
Cradle Song
Movie · as Marcella
A Bedtime Story
Movie · as Louise
Sailor Be Good
Movie · as Kay Whitney
Unashamed
Movie · as Marjorie
Wayward
Movie · as Mary Morton