Gertrude Michael
Acting
1911-06-01 · Talladega, Alabama, USA
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.
Filmography
The Continental Twist
1961 · Movie
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · Series
Sea Hunt
1958 · Series
Perry Mason
1957 · Series
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · Series
Women's Prison
1955 · Movie
No Escape
1953 · Movie
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Series
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Series
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952 · Movie
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
Darling, How Could You!
1951 · Movie
Caged
1950 · Movie
Flamingo Road
1949 · Movie
Club Havana
1945 · Movie
Allotment Wives
1945 · Movie
Three's a Crowd
1945 · Movie
Faces in the Fog
1944 · Movie
Women in Bondage
1943 · Movie
Where Are Your Children?
1943 · Movie
Behind Prison Walls
1943 · Movie
Prisoner of Japan
1942 · Movie
Slightly Tempted
1940 · Movie
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940 · Movie
The Farmer's Daughter
1940 · Movie
Parole Fixer
1940 · Movie
Pound Foolish
1940 · Movie
Just like a Woman
1939 · Movie
Hidden Power
1939 · Movie
Star of the Circus
1938 · Movie
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937 · Movie
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937 · Movie
Make Way for a Lady
1936 · Movie
Second Wife
1936 · Movie
The Return of Sophie Lang
1936 · Movie
Forgotten Faces
1936 · Movie
Till We Meet Again
1936 · Movie
Woman Trap
1936 · Movie
The Last Outpost
1935 · Movie
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Movie
It Happened in New York
1935 · Movie
Father Brown, Detective
1934 · Movie
Menace
1934 · Movie
Cleopatra
1934 · Movie
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934 · Movie
Murder on the Blackboard
1934 · Movie
Murder at the Vanities
1934 · Movie
The Witching Hour
1934 · Movie
I Believed in You
1934 · Movie
Hold That Girl
1934 · Movie
George White's Scandals
1934 · Movie
Bolero
1934 · Movie
Search for Beauty
1934 · Movie
Cradle Song
1933 · Movie
I'm No Angel
1933 · Movie
Ann Vickers
1933 · Movie
Night of Terror
1933 · Movie
A Bedtime Story
1933 · Movie
Sailor Be Good
1933 · Movie
Unashamed
1932 · Movie
Wayward
1932 · Movie