Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911, Talladega, Alabama – December 31, 1964, Beverly Hills, California) was an American film, stage and television actress.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Continental Twist
Character:Letitia Clunker
Release Date:12/12/1961
Women's Prison
Character:Chief Matron Sturgess
Release Date:01/02/1955
No Escape
Character:Olga Valerie Lewis
Release Date:31/07/1953
Bugles in the Afternoon
Character:May
Release Date:04/03/1952
Darling, How Could You!
Character:Mrs. Rossiter
Release Date:08/08/1951
Caged
Character:Georgia Harrison
Release Date:19/05/1950
Flamingo Road
Character:Millie
Release Date:30/04/1949
Club Havana
Character:Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
Release Date:23/11/1945
Allotment Wives
Character:Gladys Smith
Release Date:08/11/1945
Three's a Crowd
Character:Sophie Whipple
Release Date:23/05/1945
Faces in the Fog
Character:Nora Brooks
Release Date:30/11/1944
Women in Bondage
Character:District Director Schneider
Release Date:16/12/1943
Where Are Your Children?
Character:Nell Wilson
Release Date:26/11/1943
Behind Prison Walls
Character:Elinor Cantwell
Release Date:22/03/1943
Prisoner of Japan
Character:Toni Chase
Release Date:22/07/1942
Slightly Tempted
Character:Duchess
Release Date:18/10/1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Character:Magda Delys
Release Date:01/05/1940
The Farmer's Daughter
Character:Clarice Sheldon
Release Date:29/03/1940
Parole Fixer
Character:Collette Menthe
Release Date:02/02/1940
Pound Foolish
Character:Mrs. Irene Reynolds
Release Date:27/01/1940
Just like a Woman
Character:Ann Heston
Release Date:16/11/1939
Hidden Power
Character:Virginia Garfield
Release Date:07/09/1939
Star of the Circus
Character:Yester
Release Date:01/01/1938
Sophie Lang Goes West
Character:Sophie Lang
Release Date:10/09/1937
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Character:Jessica Stafford
Release Date:11/08/1937
Make Way for a Lady
Character:Miss Eleanor Emerson
Release Date:13/11/1936
Second Wife
Character:Virginia Howard
Release Date:21/08/1936
The Return of Sophie Lang
Character:Sophie Lang
Release Date:18/06/1936
Forgotten Faces
Character:Cleo / Harry's wife
Release Date:15/05/1936
Till We Meet Again
Character:Elsa Duranyi
Release Date:04/04/1936
Woman Trap
Character:Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
Release Date:06/03/1936
The Last Outpost
Character:Rosemary Haydon
Release Date:11/10/1935
Four Hours to Kill!
Character:Mrs. Sylvia Temple
Release Date:11/04/1935
It Happened in New York
Character:Vania Nardi
Release Date:29/03/1935
Father Brown, Detective
Character:Evelyn Fischer
Release Date:14/12/1934
Menace
Character:Helen Chalmers
Release Date:22/11/1934
Cleopatra
Character:Calpurnia
Release Date:05/10/1934
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Character:Sophie Lang
Release Date:20/07/1934
Murder on the Blackboard
Character:Jane Davis
Release Date:15/06/1934
Murder at the Vanities
Character:Rita Ross
Release Date:18/05/1934
The Witching Hour
Character:Margaret Price
Release Date:26/04/1934
I Believed in You
Character:Pamela Banks
Release Date:09/04/1934
Hold That Girl
Character:Dorothy Lamont
Release Date:23/03/1934
George White's Scandals
Character:Miss Lee
Release Date:15/03/1934
Bolero
Character:Lady D'Argon
Release Date:23/02/1934
Search for Beauty
Character:Jean Strange
Release Date:02/02/1934
Cradle Song
Character:Marcella
Release Date:19/11/1933
I'm No Angel
Character:Alicia Hatton
Release Date:06/10/1933
Ann Vickers
Character:Mona Dolphin
Release Date:26/09/1933
Night of Terror
Character:Sarah Rinehart
Release Date:23/04/1933
A Bedtime Story
Character:Louise
Release Date:22/04/1933
Sailor Be Good
Character:Kay Whitney
Release Date:07/03/1933
Unashamed
Character:Marjorie
Release Date:02/07/1932
Wayward
Character:Mary Morton
Release Date:19/02/1932
Television Appearances
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Character:Kay Salisbury
Sea Hunt
Character:
Perry Mason
Character:Helen Rucker
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Character:
Cavalcade of America
Character:Major Pauline Cushman
Four Star Playhouse
Character:Fanny
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:The Duchess
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character:
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