Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1905-07-03
Day of Death
1987-05-15
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Wynne Gibson
Biography
Winifred Elaine "Wynne" Gibson (July 3, 1898 – May 15, 1987) was an American actress who was most active during the 1930s. She was born in New York City to efficiency expert Frank W. Gibson and authorized Christian Science healer Elaine Coffin Gibson. She began her acting career on stage, performing in the Ritz Girls show and as a member of Frederick Santley's Melody Maids and Ray Raymond's Melody Charmers. Gibson's first film credit was in Paramount's talkie Nothing But the Truth (1929). She went on to appear in approximately fifty films between 1929 and 1956, many of them B movies. Gibson had a brief marriage to a stage manager. After that, she married actor John Gallaudet in 1927. They divorced in 1930. She became a long-time 'companion' of actress Beverly Roberts, with whom she starred alongside in the MGM comedy Flirting with Fate (1938). They shared homes together on both coasts until Gibson's death in 1987 of a cerebral thrombosis in Laguna Niguel, California at age 88.
Filmography (44)
Mystery Broadcast
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
A Man's World
1942
Double Cross
1941
Forgotten Girls
1940
Cafe Hostess
1940
My Son Is Guilty
1939
Miracle on Main Street
1939
Flirting with Fate
1938
Gangs of New York
1938
Trapped by G-Men
1937
Michael O'Halloran
1937
Racketeers in Exile
1937
Come Closer, Folks
1936
