Highest rated movie: Caged (1950)
Lowest rated movie: Search for Beauty (1934)
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Looking for reviews of Gertrude Michael movies? Cinafilm has a total of 100 reviews across 9 movies.
Movies starring Gertrude Michael have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 56%.
Caged - released in 1950 - is Gertrude Michael's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 36 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Gertrude Michael is Search for Beauty - released in 1934 - with a score of 41% based on 2 reviews.
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.
Gertrude Michael has acted in films with Ann Sheridan, Ray Milland, Jane Darwell and Dennis O'Keefe.
Gertrude Michael has worked with these film directors: John Cromwell, Wesley Ruggles, Michael Curtiz and Mitchell Leisen.
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