Wynne Gibson
Born: 1905-07-03 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1987-05-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Winifred Elaine "Wynne" Gibson (July 3, 1898 – May 15, 1987) was an American actress who was most active during the 1930s. She was born in New York City to efficiency expert Frank W. Gibson and authorized Christian Science healer Elaine Coffin Gibson. She began her acting career on stage, performing in the Ritz Girls show and as a member of Frederick Santley's Melody Maids and Ray Raymond's Melody Charmers. Gibson's first film credit was in Paramount's talkie Nothing But the Truth (1929). She went on to appear in approximately fifty films between 1929 and 1956, many of them B movies. Gibson had a brief marriage to a stage manager. After that, she married actor John Gallaudet in 1927. They divorced in 1930. She became a long-time 'companion' of actress Beverly Roberts, with whom she starred alongside in the MGM comedy Flirting with Fate (1938). They shared homes together on both coasts until Gibson's death in 1987 of a cerebral thrombosis in Laguna Niguel, California at age 88.
Filmography
1954
1948
- Studio One as Hotcha - conspirator
1943
- Mystery Broadcast as Eve Stanley
- The Falcon Strikes Back as Geraldine H. Lipton
1942
- A Man's World as Blossom Donovan
1941
- Double Cross as Fay Saunders
1940
- Cafe Hostess as Annie
- Forgotten Girls as Frances Wingate
1939
- Miracle on Main Street as Sade Blake
- My Son Is Guilty as Claire Morelli
1938
- Flirting with Fate as Bertha
- Gangs of New York as Orchid
1937
- Michael O'Halloran as Grace Mintum
- Trapped by G-Men as Alice Segar, posing as Mrs. Donovan
- Racketeers in Exile as 'Babe' DeVoe
1936
- Come Closer, Folks as Mae
1935
- Admirals All as Gloria Gunn
- The Crouching Beast as Gail Dunbar
1934
- Gambling as Maizie Fuller
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
- I Give My Love as Judy Blair
- The Captain Hates the Sea as Mrs. Jeddock
- The Crosby Case as Lynn Ashton
- Sleepers East as Lena Karelson
1933
- Emergency Call as Mabel Weenie
- Her Bodyguard as Margot Brienne
- The Crime of the Century as Mrs. Frieda Brandt
- Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Agnes 'Aggie' Appleby
1932
- If I Had a Million as Violet Smith (uncredited)
- Two Kinds of Women as Phyllis Adrian
- The Devil Is Driving as 'Silver'
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Clara Deane
- Lady and Gent as Puff Rogers
- Night After Night as Iris Dawn
1931
- City Streets as Agnes
- June Moon as Lucille Sears
- Ladies of the Big House as Susie Thompson
- Man of the World as Irene Harper
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- The Gang Buster as Zella Cameron
- Kick In as Myrtle Sylvester
- The Road to Reno as Mrs. It-Ritch
1930
- Children of Pleasure as Emma Gray
- The Fall Guy as Lottie Quinlan
1929
- Nothing But the Truth as Sabel Jackson
- Sympathy as Trixie