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Gertrude Michael

Gertrude Michael

Birthday: 1911-06-01 | Place of Birth: Talladega, Alabama, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1953
No Escape

as    Olga Valerie Lewis

1950
Caged

as    Georgia Harrison

1949
Flamingo Road

as    Millie

1945
Allotment Wives

as    Gladys Smith

1945
Three's a Crowd

as    Sophie Whipple

1943
Women in Bondage

as    District Director Schneider

1943
Behind Prison Walls

as    Elinor Cantwell

1943
Where Are Your Children?

as    Nell Wilson

1940
Parole Fixer

as    Collette Menthe

1940
Pound Foolish

as    Mrs. Irene Reynolds

1936
Till We Meet Again

as    Elsa Duranyi

1936
The Return of Sophie Lang

as    Sophie Lang

1934
Cleopatra

as    Calpurnia

1934
Father Brown, Detective

as    Evelyn Fischer

1934
Menace

as    Helen Chalmers

1934
Murder on the Blackboard

as    Jane Davis

1934
Search for Beauty

as    Jean Strange

1934
George White's Scandals

as    Miss Lee

1934
Murder at the Vanities

as    Rita Ross

1933
A Bedtime Story

as    Louise

1933
Ann Vickers

as    Mona Dolphin

1933
Night of Terror

as    Sarah Rinehart