1911-06-01 Talladega, Alabama, USA
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.
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The Continental Twist | Letitia Clunker | 1961-12-12 |
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Women's Prison | Chief Matron Sturgess | 1955-02-01 |
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No Escape | Olga Valerie Lewis | 1953-07-31 |
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Bugles in the Afternoon | May | 1952-03-04 |
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Darling, How Could You! | Mrs. Rossiter | 1951-08-08 |
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Caged | Georgia Harrison | 1950-05-19 |
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Flamingo Road | Millie | 1949-04-30 |
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Club Havana | Hetty - Powder Room Attendant | 1945-11-23 |
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Three's a Crowd | Sophie Whipple | 1945-05-23 |
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Allotment Wives | Gladys Smith | 1945-11-08 |
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Faces in the Fog | Nora Brooks | 1944-11-30 |
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Women in Bondage | District Director Schneider | 1943-12-16 |
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Behind Prison Walls | Elinor Cantwell | 1943-03-22 |
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Where Are Your Children? | Nell Wilson | 1943-11-26 |
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Prisoner of Japan | Toni Chase | 1942-07-22 |
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby | Magda Delys | 1940-05-01 |
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Pound Foolish | Mrs. Irene Reynolds | 1940-01-27 |
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Parole Fixer | Collette Menthe | 1940-02-02 |
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The Farmer's Daughter | Clarice Sheldon | 1940-03-29 |
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Slightly Tempted | Duchess | 1940-10-18 |
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Just like a Woman | Ann Heston | 1939-11-16 |
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Hidden Power | Virginia Garfield | 1939-09-07 |
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Star of the Circus | Yester | 1938-01-01 |
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air | Jessica Stafford | 1937-08-11 |
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Sophie Lang Goes West | Sophie Lang | 1937-09-10 |
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Woman Trap | Barbara 'Buff' Andrews | 1936-03-06 |
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The Return of Sophie Lang | Sophie Lang | 1936-06-18 |
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Make Way for a Lady | Miss Eleanor Emerson | 1936-11-13 |
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Second Wife | Virginia Howard | 1936-08-21 |
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Till We Meet Again | Elsa Duranyi | 1936-04-04 |
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Forgotten Faces | Cleo / Harry's wife | 1936-05-15 |
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It Happened in New York | Vania Nardi | 1935-03-29 |
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The Last Outpost | Rosemary Haydon | 1935-10-11 |
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Four Hours to Kill! | Mrs. Sylvia Temple | 1935-04-11 |
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The Notorious Sophie Lang | Sophie Lang | 1934-07-20 |
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I Believed in You | Pamela Banks | 1934-04-09 |
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Hold That Girl | Dorothy Lamont | 1934-03-23 |
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The Witching Hour | Margaret Price | 1934-04-26 |
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Bolero | Lady D'Argon | 1934-02-23 |
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George White's Scandals | Miss Lee | 1934-03-15 |
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Cleopatra | Calpurnia | 1934-10-05 |
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Murder at the Vanities | Rita Ross | 1934-05-18 |
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Father Brown, Detective | Evelyn Fischer | 1934-12-14 |
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Menace | Helen Chalmers | 1934-11-22 |
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Search for Beauty | Jean Strange | 1934-02-02 |
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Murder on the Blackboard | Jane Davis | 1934-06-15 |
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Sailor Be Good | Kay Whitney | 1933-03-07 |
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Ann Vickers | Mona Dolphin | 1933-09-26 |
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I'm No Angel | Alicia Hatton | 1933-10-06 |
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Cradle Song | Marcella | 1933-11-19 |
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Night of Terror | Sarah Rinehart | 1933-04-23 |
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A Bedtime Story | Louise | 1933-04-22 |
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Wayward | Mary Morton | 1932-02-19 |
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Unashamed | Marjorie | 1932-07-02 |
