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 Arlens finaceé in Wayward 1932 but her bestremembered role is probably as Rita Ross in Murder at the Vanities 1934 one of the last preCode films in which she sang an ode to marijuana Sweet Marijuana She had an affair with writer Paul Cain aka Peter RuricAfter 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 Michaellicensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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