1911-06-01 ( 113 years old ) in Talladega, Alabama, USA
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.
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Movies
The Continental Twist
1961-12-12
Women's Prison
1955-02-01
No Escape
1953-07-31
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952-03-04
Darling, How Could You!
1951-08-08
Caged
1950-05-19
Flamingo Road
1949-04-30
Club Havana
1945-11-23
Allotment Wives
1945-11-08
Three's a Crowd
1945-05-23
Faces in the Fog
1944-11-30
Women in Bondage
1943-12-16
Where Are Your Children?
1943-11-26
Behind Prison Walls
1943-03-22
Prisoner of Japan
1942-07-22
Slightly Tempted
1940-10-18
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940-05-01
The Farmer's Daughter
1940-03-29
Parole Fixer
1940-02-02
Pound Foolish
1940-01-27
Just like a Woman
1939-11-16
Hidden Power
1939-09-07
Star of the Circus
1938-01-01
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937-09-10
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
Make Way for a Lady
1936-11-13
Second Wife
1936-08-21
The Return of Sophie Lang
1936-06-18
Forgotten Faces
1936-05-15
Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
Woman Trap
1936-03-06
The Last Outpost
1935-10-11
Four Hours to Kill!
1935-04-11
It Happened in New York
1935-03-29
Father Brown, Detective
1934-12-14
Menace
1934-11-22
Cleopatra
1934-10-05
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934-07-20
Murder on the Blackboard
1934-06-15
Murder at the Vanities
1934-05-18
The Witching Hour
1934-04-26
I Believed in You
1934-04-09
Hold That Girl
1934-03-23
George White's Scandals
1934-03-15
Bolero
1934-02-23
Search for Beauty
1934-02-02
Cradle Song
1933-11-19
I'm No Angel
1933-10-06
Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
Night of Terror
1933-04-23
A Bedtime Story
1933-04-22
Sailor Be Good
1933-03-07
Unashamed
1932-07-02
Wayward
1932-02-19
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