Gertrude Michael
Acting
Born 1911-06-01
Died 1964-12-31
Talladega, Alabama, USA
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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.
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Acting
57 credits
Perry Mason
Four Star Playhouse
Cavalcade of America
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Caged
Flamingo Road
Cleopatra
Woman Trap
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Club Havana
I'm No Angel
Ann Vickers
The Last Outpost
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Bugles in the Afternoon
Murder on the Blackboard
I Believed in You
Darling, How Could You!
Murder at the Vanities
Parole Fixer
Star of the Circus
Night of Terror
Cradle Song
Search for Beauty
Women's Prison
Hold That Girl
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Where Are Your Children?
Father Brown, Detective
Make Way for a Lady
Three's a Crowd
Wayward
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Hidden Power
Menace
Just like a Woman
The Witching Hour
The Continental Twist
The Return of Sophie Lang
A Bedtime Story
Sophie Lang Goes West
Pound Foolish
Bolero
George White's Scandals
No Escape
Till We Meet Again
Prisoner of Japan
Women in Bondage
Four Hours to Kill!
Forgotten Faces
The Farmer's Daughter
Faces in the Fog
It Happened in New York
Allotment Wives
Slightly Tempted
Sailor Be Good
Unashamed
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