Gertrude Michael
Acting
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.
The Continental Twist
Letitia Clunker
Women's Prison
Chief Matron Sturgess
No Escape
Olga Valerie Lewis
Bugles in the Afternoon
May
Darling, How Could You!
Mrs. Rossiter
Caged
Georgia Harrison
Flamingo Road
Millie
Club Havana
Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
Allotment Wives
Gladys Smith
Three's a Crowd
Sophie Whipple
Faces in the Fog
Nora Brooks
Women in Bondage
District Director Schneider
Where Are Your Children?
Nell Wilson
Behind Prison Walls
Elinor Cantwell
Prisoner of Japan
Toni Chase
Slightly Tempted
Duchess
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Magda Delys
The Farmer's Daughter
Clarice Sheldon
Parole Fixer
Collette Menthe
Pound Foolish
Mrs. Irene Reynolds
Just like a Woman
Ann Heston
Hidden Power
Virginia Garfield
Star of the Circus
Yester
Sophie Lang Goes West
Sophie Lang
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Jessica Stafford
Make Way for a Lady
Miss Eleanor Emerson
Second Wife
Virginia Howard
The Return of Sophie Lang
Sophie Lang
Forgotten Faces
Cleo / Harry's wife
Till We Meet Again
Elsa Duranyi
Woman Trap
Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
The Last Outpost
Rosemary Haydon
Four Hours to Kill!
Mrs. Sylvia Temple
It Happened in New York
Vania Nardi
Father Brown, Detective
Evelyn Fischer
Menace
Helen Chalmers
Cleopatra
Calpurnia
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Sophie Lang
Murder on the Blackboard
Jane Davis
Murder at the Vanities
Rita Ross
The Witching Hour
Margaret Price
I Believed in You
Pamela Banks
Hold That Girl
Dorothy Lamont
George White's Scandals
Miss Lee
Bolero
Lady D'Argon
Search for Beauty
Jean Strange
Cradle Song
Marcella
I'm No Angel
Alicia Hatton
Ann Vickers
Mona Dolphin
Night of Terror
Sarah Rinehart
A Bedtime Story
Louise
Sailor Be Good
Kay Whitney
Unashamed
Marjorie
Wayward
Mary Morton