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