Gertrude Michael
female

Born on June 01, 1911 (114 years old)
Passed Away on December 31, 1964
From Talladega, Alabama, USA
Known for Acting
Biography
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.
Cast Credits
- 1961
- 1960
- 1958
- 1957
- 1955
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
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- 1945
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- 1934
Cleopatra
as
Calpurnia
1934
Murder at the Vanities
as
Rita Ross
1934
Murder on the Blackboard
as
Jane Davis
1934
Bolero
as
Lady D'Argon
1934
The Witching Hour
as
Margaret Price
1934
Father Brown, Detective
as
Evelyn Fischer
1934
Search for Beauty
as
Jean Strange
1934
Menace
as
Helen Chalmers
1934
George White's Scandals
as
Miss Lee
1934
Hold That Girl
as
Dorothy Lamont
1934
The Notorious Sophie Lang
as
Sophie Lang
1934
I Believed in You
as
Pamela Banks
1934
- 1933
- 1932