- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 1, 1911
- Place of Birth
- Talladega, Alabama, USA
- Died
- December 31, 1964
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…
Filmography
movieThe Continental Twist
1961 · Letitia Clunker
tvThe Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 · Kay Salisbury
tvSea Hunt
1958
tvPerry Mason
1957 · Helen Rucker
tvThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
movieWomen's Prison
1955 · Chief Matron Sturgess
movieNo Escape
1953 · Olga Valerie Lewis
tvCavalcade of America
1952 · Major Pauline Cushman
tvFour Star Playhouse
1952 · Fanny
movieBugles in the Afternoon
1952 · May
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · The Duchess
movieDarling, How Could You!
1951 · Mrs. Rossiter
movieCaged
1950 · Georgia Harrison
movieFlamingo Road
1949 · Millie
movieClub Havana
1945 · Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
movieAllotment Wives
1945 · Gladys Smith
Three's a Crowd
movieThree's a Crowd
1945 · Sophie Whipple
movieFaces in the Fog
1944 · Nora Brooks
movieWomen in Bondage
1943 · District Director Schneider
movieWhere Are Your Children?
1943 · Nell Wilson
Behind Prison Walls
movieBehind Prison Walls
1943 · Elinor Cantwell
moviePrisoner of Japan
1942 · Toni Chase
movieSlightly Tempted
1940 · Duchess
movieI Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940 · Magda Delys
movieThe Farmer's Daughter
1940 · Clarice Sheldon
movieParole Fixer
1940 · Collette Menthe
moviePound Foolish
1940 · Mrs. Irene Reynolds
Just like a Woman
movieJust like a Woman
1939 · Ann Heston
movieHidden Power
1939 · Virginia Garfield
Star of the Circus
movieStar of the Circus
1938 · Yester
movieSophie Lang Goes West
1937 · Sophie Lang
movieMr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937 · Jessica Stafford
movieMake Way for a Lady
1936 · Miss Eleanor Emerson
movieSecond Wife
1936 · Virginia Howard
movieThe Return of Sophie Lang
1936 · Sophie Lang
movieForgotten Faces
1936 · Cleo / Harry's wife
movieTill We Meet Again
1936 · Elsa Duranyi
movieWoman Trap
1936 · Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
movieThe Last Outpost
1935 · Rosemary Haydon
movieFour Hours to Kill!
1935 · Mrs. Sylvia Temple
movieIt Happened in New York
1935 · Vania Nardi
movieFather Brown, Detective
1934 · Evelyn Fischer
movieMenace
1934 · Helen Chalmers
movieCleopatra
1934 · Calpurnia
movieThe Notorious Sophie Lang
1934 · Sophie Lang
movieMurder on the Blackboard
1934 · Jane Davis
movieMurder at the Vanities
1934 · Rita Ross
movieThe Witching Hour
1934 · Margaret Price
movieI Believed in You
1934 · Pamela Banks
movieHold That Girl
1934 · Dorothy Lamont
movieGeorge White's Scandals
1934 · Miss Lee
movieBolero
1934 · Lady D'Argon
movieSearch for Beauty
1934 · Jean Strange
movieCradle Song
1933 · Marcella
movieI'm No Angel
1933 · Alicia Hatton
movieAnn Vickers
1933 · Mona Dolphin
movieNight of Terror
1933 · Sarah Rinehart
movieA Bedtime Story
1933 · Louise
movieSailor Be Good
1933 · Kay Whitney
movieUnashamed
1932 · Marjorie
movieWayward
1932 · Mary Morton