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