
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 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.
62 acting credits
Acting · 62

Perry Mason
1957
Four Star Playhouse
1952

Sea Hunt
1958

The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955

Cavalcade of America
1952

The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Caged
1950

Cleopatra
1934

Ann Vickers
1933

I'm No Angel
1933

Flamingo Road
1949

Women's Prison
1955

Women in Bondage
1943

Night of Terror
1933

Parole Fixer
1940

Father Brown, Detective
1934

Darling, How Could You!
1951

Faces in the Fog
1944

Unashamed
1932

Second Wife
1936

The Last Outpost
1935

I Believed in You
1934

Hidden Power
1939

Murder at the Vanities
1934

Four Hours to Kill!
1935

The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934

Woman Trap
1936

Bugles in the Afternoon
1952

Where Are Your Children?
1943

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940

Bolero
1934

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937

The Farmer's Daughter
1940

Murder on the Blackboard
1934

No Escape
1953

The Witching Hour
1934

Allotment Wives
1945

The Continental Twist
1961
Behind Prison Walls
1943

Pound Foolish
1940

Cradle Song
1933

Hold That Girl
1934

Menace
1934

George White's Scandals
1934

The Return of Sophie Lang
1936

Prisoner of Japan
1942

Forgotten Faces
1936

Till We Meet Again
1936

Sophie Lang Goes West
1937

Search for Beauty
1934

Club Havana
1945

Make Way for a Lady
1936

It Happened in New York
1935

Slightly Tempted
1940

A Bedtime Story
1933
Three's a Crowd
1945

Wayward
1932

Sailor Be Good
1933
Star of the Circus
1938
Just like a Woman
1939