Gertrude Michael
6/1/1911
Biography
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.
Gertrude Michael
Appeared In:
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Women's Prison
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Flamingo Road
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I'm No Angel
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Hidden Power
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Caged
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Second Wife
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Allotment Wives
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Ann Vickers
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Cleopatra
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No Escape
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The Continental Twist
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Murder at the Vanities
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The Last Outpost
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Bugles in the Afternoon
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Four Hours to Kill!
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Three's a Crowd
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Make Way for a Lady
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Sophie Lang Goes West
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Night of Terror
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Women in Bondage
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Murder on the Blackboard
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Cradle Song
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Bolero
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Where Are Your Children?
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
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Till We Meet Again
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The Witching Hour
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The Return of Sophie Lang
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Unashamed
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Father Brown, Detective
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Search for Beauty
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A Bedtime Story
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It Happened in New York
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Slightly Tempted
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Menace
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George White's Scandals
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Parole Fixer
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Prisoner of Japan
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The Farmer's Daughter
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Faces in the Fog
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
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Woman Trap
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Hold That Girl
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Behind Prison Walls
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Just like a Woman
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Darling, How Could You!
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Wayward
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Pound Foolish
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
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I Believed in You
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Sailor Be Good
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Club Havana
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Star of the Circus