From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movie | The Continental Twist | Letitia Clunker | 1961-12-12 |
Series | Sea Hunt | Unknown | 1958-01-04 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | Women's Prison | Chief Matron Sturgess | 1955-02-01 |
Series | The 20th Century Fox Hour | Unknown | 1955-10-05 |
Movie | No Escape | Olga Valerie Lewis | 1953-07-31 |
Series | Cavalcade of America | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
Movie | Bugles in the Afternoon | May | 1952-03-04 |
Movie | Darling, How Could You! | Mrs. Rossiter | 1951-08-08 |
Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |
Series | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Unknown | 1951-10-05 |
Movie | Caged | Georgia Harrison | 1950-05-19 |
Movie | Flamingo Road | Millie | 1949-04-30 |
Movie | Club Havana | Hetty - Powder Room Attendant | 1945-11-23 |
Movie | Three's a Crowd | Sophie Whipple | 1945-05-23 |
Movie | Allotment Wives | Gladys Smith | 1945-11-08 |
Movie | Faces in the Fog | Nora Brooks | 1944-11-30 |
Movie | Where Are Your Children? | Nell Wilson | 1943-11-26 |
Movie | Behind Prison Walls | Elinor Cantwell | 1943-03-22 |
Movie | Women in Bondage | District Director Schneider | 1943-12-16 |
Movie | Prisoner of Japan | Toni Chase | 1942-07-22 |
Movie | Parole Fixer | Collette Menthe | 1940-02-02 |
Movie | Pound Foolish | Mrs. Irene Reynolds | 1940-01-27 |
Movie | I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby | Magda Delys | 1940-05-01 |
Movie | Slightly Tempted | Duchess | 1940-10-18 |
Movie | The Farmer's Daughter | Clarice Sheldon | 1940-03-29 |
Movie | Just like a Woman | Ann Heston | 1939-11-16 |
Movie | Sophie Lang Goes West | Sophie Lang | 1937-09-10 |
Movie | Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | Jessica Stafford | 1937-08-11 |
Movie | Woman Trap | Barbara 'Buff' Andrews | 1936-03-06 |
Movie | Till We Meet Again | Elsa Duranyi | 1936-04-04 |
Movie | The Return of Sophie Lang | Sophie Lang | 1936-06-18 |
Movie | Make Way for a Lady | Miss Eleanor Emerson | 1936-11-13 |
Movie | Four Hours to Kill! | Mrs. Sylvia Temple | 1935-04-11 |
Movie | The Last Outpost | Rosemary Haydon | 1935-10-11 |
Movie | I Believed in You | Pamela Banks | 1934-04-09 |
Movie | Hold That Girl | Dorothy Lamont | 1934-03-23 |
Movie | George White's Scandals | Miss Lee | 1934-03-15 |
Movie | Bolero | Lady D'Argon | 1934-02-23 |
Movie | Search for Beauty | Jean Strange | 1934-02-02 |
Movie | Murder at the Vanities | Rita Ross | 1934-05-18 |
Movie | The Witching Hour | Margaret Price | 1934-04-26 |
Movie | Father Brown, Detective | Evelyn Fischer | 1934-12-14 |
Movie | Menace | Helen Chalmers | 1934-11-22 |
Movie | Murder on the Blackboard | Jane Davis | 1934-06-15 |
Movie | Cleopatra | Calpurnia | 1934-10-05 |
Movie | A Bedtime Story | Louise | 1933-04-22 |
Movie | Night of Terror | Sarah Rinehart | 1933-04-23 |
Movie | Cradle Song | Marcella | 1933-11-19 |
Movie | Ann Vickers | Mona Dolphin | 1933-09-26 |
Movie | I'm No Angel | Alicia Hatton | 1933-10-06 |
Movie | Wayward | Mary Morton | 1932-02-19 |
Movie | Unashamed | Marjorie | 1932-07-02 |