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Gertrude Michael
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 Mi…
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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.
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1961
The Continental Twist
Movie Letitia Clunker
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1960
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
TV show Kay Salisbury
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1958
Sea Hunt
TV show
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Helen Rucker
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1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV show
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1955
Women's Prison
Movie Chief Matron Sturgess
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1953
No Escape
Movie Olga Valerie Lewis
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1952
Cavalcade of America
TV show Major Pauline Cushman
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1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show Fanny
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1952
Bugles in the Afternoon
Movie May
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1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV show
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show The Duchess
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1951
Darling, How Could You!
Movie Mrs. Rossiter
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1950
Caged
Movie Georgia Harrison
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1949
Flamingo Road
Movie Millie
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1945
Club Havana
Movie Hetty - Powder Room Attendant
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1945
Allotment Wives
Movie Gladys Smith
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1945
Three's a Crowd
Movie Sophie Whipple
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1944
Faces in the Fog
Movie Nora Brooks
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1943
Women in Bondage
Movie District Director Schneider
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1943
Where Are Your Children?
Movie Nell Wilson
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1943
Behind Prison Walls
Movie Elinor Cantwell
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1942
Prisoner of Japan
Movie Toni Chase
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1940
Slightly Tempted
Movie Duchess
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1940
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Movie Magda Delys
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1940
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie Clarice Sheldon
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1940
Parole Fixer
Movie Collette Menthe
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1940
Pound Foolish
Movie Mrs. Irene Reynolds
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1939
Just like a Woman
Movie Ann Heston
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1939
Hidden Power
Movie Virginia Garfield
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1938
Star of the Circus
Movie Yester
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1937
Sophie Lang Goes West
Movie Sophie Lang
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1937
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Movie Jessica Stafford
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1936
Make Way for a Lady
Movie Miss Eleanor Emerson
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1936
Second Wife
Movie Virginia Howard
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1936
The Return of Sophie Lang
Movie Sophie Lang
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1936
Forgotten Faces
Movie Cleo / Harry's wife
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1936
Till We Meet Again
Movie Elsa Duranyi
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1936
Woman Trap
Movie Barbara 'Buff' Andrews
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1935
The Last Outpost
Movie Rosemary Haydon
