
Gertrude Michael
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.
- Known ForActing
- Born1 June 1911 (age 114)
- Place of BirthTalladega, Alabama, USA
Gertrude Michael

- Known ForActing
- Born1 June 1911 (age 114)
- Place of BirthTalladega, Alabama, USA

The Continental Twist
1961

Women's Prison
1955

No Escape
1953

Bugles in the Afternoon
1952

Darling, How Could You!
1951

Caged
1950

Flamingo Road
1949

Allotment Wives
1945
Three's a Crowd
1945

Club Havana
1945

Faces in the Fog
1944

Women in Bondage
1943

Where Are Your Children?
1943
Behind Prison Walls
1943

Prisoner of Japan
1942

Slightly Tempted
1940

Parole Fixer
1940

The Farmer's Daughter
1940

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940

Pound Foolish
1940

Hidden Power
1939
Just like a Woman
1939
Star of the Circus
1938

Sophie Lang Goes West
1937

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937

Second Wife
1936

Make Way for a Lady
1936

Till We Meet Again
1936

The Return of Sophie Lang
1936

Woman Trap
1936

Forgotten Faces
1936

The Last Outpost
1935

Four Hours to Kill!
1935

It Happened in New York
1935

Cleopatra
1934

Murder at the Vanities
1934

Murder on the Blackboard
1934

Bolero
1934

The Witching Hour
1934

Father Brown, Detective
1934

Search for Beauty
1934

Menace
1934

George White's Scandals
1934

Hold That Girl
1934

The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934

I Believed in You
1934

I'm No Angel
1933

Ann Vickers
1933

Night of Terror
1933

Cradle Song
1933

A Bedtime Story
1933

Sailor Be Good
1933

Unashamed
1932
