

Gertrude Michael
1911 — 1964 Age: 53 years oldinfo
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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Thursday, June 1, 1911, Talladega, Alabama, USA
Thursday, December 31, 1964
Female
Works 51
1932
WaywardMary Morton
1933
I'm No AngelAlicia Hatton
1933
Ann VickersMona Dolphin
1934
CleopatraCalpurnia
1934
BoleroLady D'Argon
1934
Murder at the VanitiesRita Ross
1934
MenaceHelen Chalmers
1934
Father Brown, DetectiveEvelyn Fischer
1935
The Last OutpostRosemary Haydon
1943
Women in BondageDistrict Director Schneider
1949
Flamingo RoadMillie
1950
CagedGeorgia Harrison
1952
Bugles in the AfternoonMay
1953
No EscapeOlga Valerie Lewis
1955
Women's PrisonChief Matron Sturgess
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