Gertrude Michael
Age: 53 | From: Talladega, Alabama, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1911-06-01 16:40:14
Death: 1964-12-31 16:40:14
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Talladega, Alabama, USA
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Movie Involvements: 37
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Most Famous Work
Perry Mason
(1957) Helen Rucker
Cavalcade of America
(1952) Major Pauline Cushman
Caged
(1950) Georgia Harrison
Cleopatra
(1934) Calpurnia
Flamingo Road
(1949) Millie
I Believed in You
(1934) Pamela Banks
Women's Prison
(1955) Chief Matron Sturgess
Till We Meet Again
(1936) Elsa DuranyiActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Letitia Clunker | |
| 1958 | N/A | |
| 1957 | Helen Rucker | |
| 1955 | N/A | |
| Chief Matron Sturgess | ||
| 1953 | Olga Valerie Lewis | |
| 1952 | Major Pauline Cushman | |
| Fanny | ||
| May | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
| The Duchess | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mrs. Rossiter | ||
| 1950 | Georgia Harrison | |
| 1949 | Millie | |
| 1945 | Hetty - Powder Room Attendant | |
| Gladys Smith | ||
| Sophie Whipple | ||
| 1944 | Nora Brooks | |
| 1943 | District Director Schneider | |
| Nell Wilson | ||
| Elinor Cantwell | ||
| 1942 | Toni Chase | |
| 1940 | Duchess | |
| Magda Delys | ||
| Clarice Sheldon | ||
| Collette Menthe | ||
| Mrs. Irene Reynolds | ||
| 1939 | Ann Heston | |
| Virginia Garfield | ||
| 1938 | Yester | |
| 1937 | Sophie Lang | |
| Jessica Stafford | ||
| 1936 | Miss Eleanor Emerson | |
| Virginia Howard | ||
| Sophie Lang | ||
| Elsa Duranyi | ||
| Barbara 'Buff' Andrews | ||
| 1935 | Rosemary Haydon | |
| Mrs. Sylvia Temple | ||
| Vania Nardi | ||
| 1934 | Evelyn Fischer | |
| Helen Chalmers | ||
| Calpurnia | ||
| Sophie Lang | ||
| Jane Davis | ||
| Rita Ross | ||
| Margaret Price | ||
| Pamela Banks | ||
| Dorothy Lamont | ||
| Miss Lee | ||
| Lady D'Argon | ||
| Jean Strange | ||
| 1933 | Marcella | |
| Alicia Hatton | ||
| Mona Dolphin | ||
| Sarah Rinehart | ||
| Louise | ||
| Kay Whitney | ||
| 1932 | Marjorie | |
| Mary Morton | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
