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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Perry Mason
as Helen Rucker
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1957
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as The Duchess
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
Cavalcade of America
as Major Pauline Cushman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
Four Star Playhouse
as Fanny
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1952
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
as Kay Salisbury
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 18, 1960
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
Sea Hunt
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 04, 1958
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1955
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1951
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