Acting
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.
Filmography
The Continental Twist
Film · 1961
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
Series · 1960
Sea Hunt
Series · 1958
Perry Mason
Series · 1957
Women's Prison
Film · 1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Series · 1955
No Escape
Film · 1953
Bugles in the Afternoon
Film · 1952
Cavalcade of America
Series · 1952
Four Star Playhouse
Series · 1952
Darling, How Could You!
Film · 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Series · 1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Series · 1951
Caged
Film · 1950
Flamingo Road
Film · 1949
Allotment Wives
Film · 1945
Three's a Crowd
Film · 1945
Club Havana
Film · 1945
Faces in the Fog
Film · 1944
Women in Bondage
Film · 1943
Where Are Your Children?
Film · 1943
Behind Prison Walls
Film · 1943
Prisoner of Japan
Film · 1942
Slightly Tempted
Film · 1940
Parole Fixer
Film · 1940
The Farmer's Daughter
Film · 1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Film · 1940
Pound Foolish
Film · 1940
Hidden Power
Film · 1939
Just like a Woman
Film · 1939
Star of the Circus
Film · 1938
Sophie Lang Goes West
Film · 1937
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Film · 1937
Second Wife
Film · 1936
Make Way for a Lady
Film · 1936
Till We Meet Again
Film · 1936
The Return of Sophie Lang
Film · 1936
Woman Trap
Film · 1936
Forgotten Faces
Film · 1936
The Last Outpost
Film · 1935
Four Hours to Kill!
Film · 1935
It Happened in New York
Film · 1935
Cleopatra
Film · 1934
Murder at the Vanities
Film · 1934
Murder on the Blackboard
Film · 1934
Bolero
Film · 1934
The Witching Hour
Film · 1934
Father Brown, Detective
Film · 1934
Search for Beauty
Film · 1934
Menace
Film · 1934
George White's Scandals
Film · 1934
Hold That Girl
Film · 1934
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Film · 1934
I Believed in You
Film · 1934
I'm No Angel
Film · 1933
Ann Vickers
Film · 1933
Night of Terror
Film · 1933
Cradle Song
Film · 1933
A Bedtime Story
Film · 1933
Sailor Be Good
Film · 1933
Unashamed
Film · 1932
Wayward
Film · 1932