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