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Lillian Gertrude Michael, Beck Michael
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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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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1911-06-01
- event Death Date 1964-12-31
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.2
- info Birth Place Talladega, Alabama, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Gertrude Michael
5.5
Women's Prison
1955-02-01
7
Flamingo Road
1949-04-30
6.3
I'm No Angel
1933-10-06
0
Hidden Power
1939-09-07
7.1
Caged
1950-05-19
0
Second Wife
1936-08-21
6
Allotment Wives
1945-11-08
5.9
Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
6
Cleopatra
1934-10-05
4.5
No Escape
1953-07-31
4.7
The Continental Twist
1961-12-12
5.4
Murder at the Vanities
1934-05-18
6
The Last Outpost
1935-10-11
5
Bugles in the Afternoon
1952-03-04
5
Four Hours to Kill!
1935-04-11
0
Three's a Crowd
1945-05-23
5
Make Way for a Lady
1936-11-13
6
Sophie Lang Goes West
1937-09-10
5.5
Night of Terror
1933-04-23
5.7
Women in Bondage
1943-12-16
5.3
Murder on the Blackboard
1934-06-15
0
Cradle Song
1933-11-19
6.1
Bolero
1934-02-23
4
Where Are Your Children?
1943-11-26
5.2
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937-08-11
5
Till We Meet Again
1936-04-04
5.3
The Witching Hour
1934-04-26
6
The Return of Sophie Lang
1936-06-18
6.3
Unashamed
1932-07-02
6.5
Father Brown, Detective
1934-12-14
5.9
Search for Beauty
1934-02-02
8
A Bedtime Story
1933-04-22
0
It Happened in New York
1935-03-29
0
Slightly Tempted
1940-10-18
6.5
Menace
1934-11-22
5
George White's Scandals
1934-03-15
0
Parole Fixer
1940-02-02
4.3
Prisoner of Japan
1942-07-22
5
The Farmer's Daughter
1940-03-29
3
Faces in the Fog
1944-11-30
6
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
1940-05-01
0
Woman Trap
1936-03-06
0
Hold That Girl
1934-03-23
0
Behind Prison Walls
1943-03-22
0
Just like a Woman
1939-11-16
6
Darling, How Could You!
1951-08-08
6
Wayward
1932-02-19
0
Pound Foolish
1940-01-27
5.7
The Notorious Sophie Lang
1934-07-20
0
I Believed in You
1934-04-09
0
Sailor Be Good
1933-03-07
5.7
Club Havana
1945-11-23
2
Star of the Circus
1938-01-01
0
Forgotten Faces
1936-05-15
7.6
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
6.5
Sea Hunt
1958-01-04
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
4.2
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955-10-05
3.5
Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
5.7
Four Star Playhouse
1952-09-25
0
The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960-10-18