Gertrude Michael

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1911-06-01
Place of Birth: Talladega, Alabama, USA
Also Known As: Lillian Gertrude Michael, Beck Michael

Movies List of Gertrude Michael

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Women's Prison

1955 Movie
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Flamingo Road

1949 Movie
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I'm No Angel

1933 Movie
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Hidden Power

1939 Movie
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Caged

1950 Movie
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Second Wife

1936 Movie
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Allotment Wives

1945 Movie
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Ann Vickers

1933 Movie
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Cleopatra

1934 Movie
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No Escape

1953 Movie
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The Continental Twist

1961 Movie
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The Last Outpost

1935 Movie
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Four Hours to Kill!

1935 Movie
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Three's a Crowd

1945 Movie
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Make Way for a Lady

1936 Movie
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Sophie Lang Goes West

1937 Movie
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Night of Terror

1933 Movie
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Women in Bondage

1943 Movie
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Cradle Song

1933 Movie
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Bolero

1934 Movie
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Till We Meet Again

1936 Movie
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The Witching Hour

1934 Movie
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Unashamed

1932 Movie
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Search for Beauty

1934 Movie
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A Bedtime Story

1933 Movie
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Slightly Tempted

1940 Movie
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Menace

1934 Movie
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Parole Fixer

1940 Movie
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Prisoner of Japan

1942 Movie
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The Farmer's Daughter

1940 Movie
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Faces in the Fog

1944 Movie
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Woman Trap

1936 Movie
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Hold That Girl

1934 Movie
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Behind Prison Walls

1943 Movie
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Just like a Woman

1939 Movie
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Wayward

1932 Movie
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Pound Foolish

1940 Movie
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I Believed in You

1934 Movie
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Sailor Be Good

1933 Movie
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Club Havana

1945 Movie
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Star of the Circus

1938 Movie