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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.
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22 March 1943
A reworking of a familiar theme, the story finds scheming steel tycoon James J. MacGlennon (Tully Marshall) and his high-minded lawyer son Jonathan (Alan Baxter) simultaneously ending up behind bars.
04 April 1936
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage.
15 May 1936
Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm.
11 April 1935
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.
22 April 1933
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
26 April 1934
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift.
11 October 1935
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
20 July 1934
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief.
19 May 1950
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
10 September 1937
Reformed jewel-thief Sophie Lang, tired of being questioned by the New York City police every time a jewel disappears, decides to head for California only to get into more trouble.
26 September 1933
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
08 November 1945
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
15 June 1934
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect.
06 March 1936
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
19 November 1933
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
22 November 1934
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
16 December 1943
Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government.
01 February 1955
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
22 July 1942
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
12 December 1961
Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail.
06 October 1933
Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
26 November 1943
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training.
07 September 1939
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve.
27 January 1940
An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.
29 March 1940
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show who insists that they cast his ex-girlfriend, Clarice Sheldon, in the lead role and rehearse out of town.
02 July 1932
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
05 October 1934
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
07 March 1933
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.
30 April 1949
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
18 October 1940
A con man tries to sell phony stocks to unwary investors.
01 May 1940
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad.
11 August 1937
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
14 December 1934
After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her.
15 March 1934
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue.
23 March 1934
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.
02 February 1940
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons.
23 November 1945
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
29 March 1935
A New York City cab driver in need of $200 picks up a movie star in his cab, and schemes to get the money from her.
09 April 1934
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune.
23 February 1934
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
16 November 1939
A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
01 January 1938
English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).
23 May 1945
What would you do in this house of fear... if you knew that your husband killed your former flame?
08 August 1951
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
04 March 1952
Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman.
18 May 1934
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander.
19 February 1932
Story of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel Howe Farnham.
30 November 1944
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les.
23 April 1933
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
31 July 1953
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime.
21 August 1936
Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.
02 February 1934
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
13 November 1936
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr.
18 June 1936
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London.
