Gertrude Michael

Personal life Michael had an affair with writer Paul Cain ( Peter Ruric). After the relationship ended, Cain, in his novel Fast One, based the character of the alcoholic lover on Michael.

Michael died on December 31, 1964, aged 53, in her Hollywood home.

Filmography Film

Wayward (1932) - Mary Morton Unashamed (1932) - Marjorie Sailor Be Good (1933) - Kay Whitney A Bedtime Story (1933) - Louise Night of Terror (1933) - Sarah Rinehart Ann Vickers (1933) - Mona Dolphin I'm No Angel (1933) - Alicia Hatton Cradle Song (1933) - Sister Marcella Search for Beauty (1934) - Jean Strange Bolero (1934) - Lady D'Argon George White's Scandals (1934) - Miss Lee Hold That Girl (1934) - Dorothy Lamont I Believed in You (1934) - Pamela Banks The Witching Hour (1934) - Margaret Price Murder at the Vanities (1934) - Rita Ross Murder on the Blackboard (1934) - Jane Davis The Notorious Sophie Lang (1934) - Sophie Lang Cleopatra (1934) - Calpurnia Menace (1934) - Helen Chalmers Father Brown, Detective (1934) - Evelyn Fischer It Happened in New York (1935) - Vania Nardi Four Hours to Kill! (1935) - Mrs. Sylvia Temple The Last Outpost (1935) - Rosemary Woman Trap (1936) - Barbara 'Buff' Andrews Till We Meet Again (1936) - Elsa Duranyi Forgotten Faces (1936) - Cleo Ashton The Return of Sophie Lang (1936) - Sophie Lang aka Ethel Thomas Second Wife (1936) - Virginia Howard Make Way for a Lady (1936) - Miss Eleanor Emerson Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937) - Jessica Stafford Sophie Lang Goes West (1937) - Sophie Lang Just like a Woman (1938) - Ann Heston Star of the Circus (1938) - Yester Hidden Power (1939) - Virginia Garfield Parole Fixer (1940) - Collette Menthe The Farmer's Daughter (1940) - Clarice Sheldon I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940) - Magda Delys Slightly Tempted (1940) - Duchess Prisoner of Japan (1942) - Toni Chase Behind Prison Walls (1943) - Elinor Cantwell Women in Bondage (1943) - District Director Schneider Faces in the Fog (1944) - Nora Brooks Three's a Crowd (1945) - Sophie Whipple Allotment Wives (1945) - Gladys Smith Club Havana (1945) - Hetty - Powder Room Attendant That Wonderful Urge (1948) - Mrs. Whitson (uncredited) Flamingo Road (1949) - Millie Caged (1950) - Georgia Harrison Darling, How Could You! (1951) - Mrs. Rossiter Bugles in the Afternoon (1952) - May No Escape (1953) - Olga Valerie Lewis Women's Prison (1955) - Chief Matron Sturgess The Continental Twist (1961) - Letitia Clunker The Outsider (1961) - Clubwoman (uncredited) (final film role)

Television Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (3 episodes, 1952–1957) - the Duchess Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (1 episode, 1954) - Lisa Jenssen Cavalcade of America (1 episode, 1953) - Major Pauline Cushman Meet Corliss Archer (1 episode, 1954) - Mrs. Wilson The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1 episode, 1954) - Coralee Private Secretary (1 episode, 1954) - Hollywood Star The Ford Television Theatre (1 episode, 1954) - Belle Four Star Playhouse (1 episode, 1955) - Fanny Cameo Theatre (1 episode, 1955) The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1 episode, 1957) - Joyce Fenton The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1 episode, 1957) - Kate Perry Mason (1 episode, 1958) - Helen Rucker Sea Hunt (1 episode, 1961) - Mrs. Friedrich