Gertrude Michael
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: June 1, 1911
Day of Death: December 31, 1964 (54 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Actor Calpurnia
Cleopatra
Actor Rita Ross
Murder at the Vanities
Actor Jane Davis
Murder on the Blackboard
Actor Lady D'Argon
Bolero
Actor Margaret Price
The Witching Hour
Actor Evelyn Fischer
Father Brown, Detective
Actor Jean Strange
Search for Beauty
Actor Helen Chalmers
Menace
Actor Miss Lee
George White's Scandals
Actor Dorothy Lamont
Hold That Girl
Actor Sophie Lang
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Actor Pamela Banks
I Believed in You
