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.
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Películas (54)
The Continental Twist
1961 · Letitia Clunker
Women's Prison
1955 · Chief Matron Sturgess
No Escape
1953 · Olga Valerie Lewis
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 · May
Darling, How Could You!
1951 · Mrs. Rossiter
Caged
1950 · Georgia Harrison
Flamingo Road
1949 · Millie
Club Havana
1945 · Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
Allotment Wives
1945 · Gladys Smith
Three's a Crowd
1945 · Sophie Whipple
Faces in the Fog
1944 · Nora Brooks
Women in Bondage
1943 · District Director Schneider
Where Are Your Children?
1943 · Nell Wilson
Behind Prison Walls
1943 · Elinor Cantwell
Prisoner of Japan
1942 · Toni Chase
Slightly Tempted
1940 · Duchess
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940 · Magda Delys
The Farmer's Daughter
1940 · Clarice Sheldon
Parole Fixer
1940 · Collette Menthe
Pound Foolish
1940 · Mrs. Irene Reynolds
Just like a Woman
1939 · Ann Heston
Hidden Power
1939 · Virginia Garfield
Star of the Circus
1938 · Yester
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937 · Sophie Lang
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937 · Jessica Stafford
Make Way for a Lady
1936 · Miss Eleanor Emerson
Second Wife
1936 · Virginia Howard
The Return of Sophie Lang
1936 · Sophie Lang
Forgotten Faces
1936 · Cleo / Harry's wife
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Elsa Duranyi
Woman Trap
1936 · Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
The Last Outpost
1935 · Rosemary Haydon
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Mrs. Sylvia Temple
It Happened in New York
1935 · Vania Nardi
Father Brown, Detective
1934 · Evelyn Fischer
Menace
1934 · Helen Chalmers
Cleopatra
1934 · Calpurnia
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934 · Sophie Lang
Murder on the Blackboard
1934 · Jane Davis
Murder at the Vanities
1934 · Rita Ross
The Witching Hour
1934 · Margaret Price
I Believed in You
1934 · Pamela Banks
Hold That Girl
1934 · Dorothy Lamont
George White's Scandals
1934 · Miss Lee
Bolero
1934 · Lady D'Argon
Search for Beauty
1934 · Jean Strange
Cradle Song
1933 · Marcella
I'm No Angel
1933 · Alicia Hatton
Ann Vickers
1933 · Mona Dolphin
Night of Terror
1933 · Sarah Rinehart
A Bedtime Story
1933 · Louise
Sailor Be Good
1933 · Kay Whitney
Unashamed
1932 · Marjorie
Wayward
1932 · Mary Morton
