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
- The Falcon Strikes Back as Geraldine H. Lipton
- Mystery Broadcast as Eve Stanley
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
- Gangs of New York as Orchid
- Flirting with Fate as Bertha
1937
- Michael O'Halloran as Grace Mintum
- Racketeers in Exile as 'Babe' DeVoe
- Trapped by G-Men as Alice Segar, posing as Mrs. Donovan
1936
- Come Closer, Folks as Mae
1935
- The Crouching Beast as Gail Dunbar
- Admirals All as Gloria Gunn
1934
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
- Sleepers East as Lena Karelson
- The Captain Hates the Sea as Mrs. Jeddock
- The Crosby Case as Lynn Ashton
- Gambling as Maizie Fuller
- I Give My Love as Judy Blair
1933
- Her Bodyguard as Margot Brienne
- The Crime of the Century as Mrs. Frieda Brandt
- Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Agnes 'Aggie' Appleby
- Emergency Call as Mabel Weenie
1932
- If I Had a Million as Violet Smith (uncredited)
- Night After Night as Iris Dawn
- Lady and Gent as Puff Rogers
- The Devil Is Driving as 'Silver'
- Two Kinds of Women as Phyllis Adrian
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane as Clara Deane
1931
- City Streets as Agnes
- Man of the World as Irene Harper
- The Road to Reno as Mrs. It-Ritch
- The Stolen Jools as Reporter
- Ladies of the Big House as Susie Thompson
- Kick In as Myrtle Sylvester
- The Gang Buster as Zella Cameron
- June Moon as Lucille Sears
1930
- The Fall Guy as Lottie Quinlan
- Children of Pleasure as Emma Gray
1929
- Nothing but the Truth as Sabel Jackson
- Sympathy as Trixie