Gertrude Michael

Actress Gertrude Michael was born in Talladega, Alabama, United States, on June 1, 1911. She began her career in the early 1930s and remained active until 1963. A piano prodigy, she left the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at 18 to pursue acting. Her stage debut came in 1929 in Cincinnati, with a stock company led by Stuart Walker. She later appeared on Broadway in Rachel Crothers's "Caught Wet" in 1931, and entered films as Richard Arlen's fiancée in Wayward (1932). Her most memorable role is the jealous "Rita Ross" in Murder at the Vanities (1934). She was slim with natural breasts. Gertrude Michael died on December 31, 1964, at age 53.