Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1911-06-01
Day of Death
1964-12-31
Place of Birth
Talladega, Alabama, USA
Gertrude Michael
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.
Filmography (54)
The Continental Twist
1961
Women's Prison
1955
No Escape
1953
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952
Darling, How Could You!
1951
Caged
1950
Flamingo Road
1949
Club Havana
1945
Allotment Wives
1945Three's a Crowd
1945
Faces in the Fog
1944
Women in Bondage
1943
Where Are Your Children?
1943Behind Prison Walls
1943
