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.

Filmografi

I'm No Angel1933 · Alicia HattonWoman Trap1936 · Barbara 'Buff' AndrewsWayward1932 · Mary MortonCleopatra1934 · CalpurniaBugles in the Afternoon1952 · MayJust like a Woman1939 · Ann HestonClub Havana1945 · Hetty - Powder Room AttendantI Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby1940 · Magda DelysCaged1950 · Georgia HarrisonMurder at the Vanities1934 · Rita RossFlamingo Road1949 · MillieDarling, How Could You!1951 · Mrs. RossiterStar of the Circus1938 · YesterThe Notorious Sophie Lang1934 · Sophie LangHold That Girl1934 · Dorothy LamontMurder on the Blackboard1934 · Jane DavisSophie Lang Goes West1937 · Sophie LangThe Last Outpost1935 · Rosemary HaydonMr. Dodd Takes the Air1937 · Jessica StaffordPrisoner of Japan1942 · Toni ChaseWomen's Prison1955 · Chief Matron SturgessThree's a Crowd1945 · Sophie WhippleThe Farmer's Daughter1940 · Clarice SheldonTill We Meet Again1936 · Elsa Duranyi