Gertrude Flynn | |
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.jpg) Flynn in The Lawless Years (1959) | |
| Born | January 14, 1909 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 16, 1996 (aged 87) Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Stage, film and television actress |
| Years active | 1929-87 |
| Spouse | Asa Bordages |
Gertrude Flynn (January 14, 1909 – October 16, 1996)[1] was an American stage, film and television actress. She was married to Asa Bordages, a feature writer for the New York World-Telegram[2] and playwright known for the 1941 play Brooklyn USA.[3][4]
Flynn's film and television career began in 1954 in The Barefoot Contessa as "Lulu McGee". She played "Maggie Blake" in the Sherlock Holmes episode, "The Case of the Belligerent Ghost".
She made four guest appearances on Perry Mason in the early 1960s, including as "Agatha Culpepper" in "The Case of the Floating Stones", as Mrs. Nichols in "The Case of the Irate Inventor" in 1960, and as Sylvia Lambert in the 1963 episode "The Case of the Bluffing Blast".
Her final appearance was in 1966 in the "Case of the Golfer's Gambit" as Rolasie Hedrick. During the 1965–66 season of the soap opera Days of Our Lives she made five appearances as Anna Sawyer. She made her final television appearances in 1987 in Outlaws.
Flynn performed on Broadway beginning in the late 1920s.[5] She appeared on stage through 1952 in the following productions, the most successful of which ran for three months:
Despite the brief length of the stage productions, Flynn garnered some good reviews. The New York Times noted her appearance in the very short-lived (5 days) 1940 production of Romantic Mr. Dickens, a drama about the romances of Charles Dickens, and wrote that she "fit smoothly into this rather unorthodox picture of a literary tradition."[6] After beginning her work in film and television, Flynn continued work in theater, making appearances in such as Summer Voices at the Circle Theater in Los Angeles as late as 1977.[7]
Of her 1965 performance in the West Coast Repertory Company's troubled production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, the Los Angeles Times wrote "The one saving grace of the evening was the fine performance by Gertrude Flynn of Mary Tyrone".[8]
Flyn appeared in I Want To Live, Invitation to a Gunfighter and Rome Adventure. She guest starred on such television series as The Millionaire, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Loretta Young Show, Maverick, Have Gun - Will Travel, Dr Kildare, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, and Hill Street Blues. Flynn appeared in the classic 1961 Twilight Zone episode, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?". She played as Rose Kramer.[9]
