Gertrude Flynn

Gertrude Flynn (January 14, 1909 – October 16, 1996) was an American stage, film and television actress. She was married to Asa Bordages, a feature writer for the New York World-Telegram and playwright known for the 1941 play Brooklyn USA.
Career
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.
Theater
Flynn performed on Broadway beginning in the late 1920s. She appeared on stage through 1952 in the following productions, the most successful of which ran for three months:
The Unsophisticates (December 30, 1929-January 1930) as Phyllis
Penal Law 2010 (April 18, 1930-May 1930) as Lucy Van Dam
Gasoline Gypsies (June 1931-June 1931) as Ruth Warren
Three Times the Hour (August 25, 1931-September 1931) as Hildah Lovering
The Moon in the Yellow River (February 29, 1932-April 1932) as Blanaid
American Dream (February 21, 1933-March 1933) as Celia, Amarylils
Man Bites Dog (April 25, 1933-May 1933) as Helen Lee
Biography (February 1934-February 1934) as Slade Kinnicott
Jigsaw (April 30, 1934-June 1934) as Julie
A Sleeping Clergyman (October 8, 1934 - November 1934) as Cousin Minnie
Mother Lode (December 1934-December 1934) as Julia Musette
Noah (February 13, 1935-March 1935) as Ada
One Good Year (November 27, 1935 - June 1936) as Anne
The Puritan (January 1936-January 1936) as Kitty
Marching Song (February 17, 1937-April 1937) as Rose Graham
Romantic Mr. Dickens (December 2, 1940 – December 7, 1940) as Dora Spenlow (Later Dora Winter)
The Distant City (September 22, 1941 – September 23, 1941) as Edna Scott
The Grass Harp (March 27, 1952 – April 26, 1952) as The Baker's Wife
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." 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.
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".
Film and television
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.
Partial filmography
Film
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) as Lulu McGee
War and Peace (1956) as Mariya Peronskaya
Difendo il mio amore (1956)
Boy on a Dolphin (1957) as Miss Dill
The Love Specialist (1957)
I Want to Live! (1958) as San Quentin Matron
A Summer Place (1959) as Mrs. Carter, Helen's Mother (uncredited)
Parrish (1961) as Miss Daly (uncredited)
Rome Adventure (1962) as Mrs. Riggs
The Thrill of It All (1963) as Celine (uncredited)
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) as Hannah Guthrie
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) as Daisy's Nurse (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls (1967) as Ladies' Room Attendant (uncredited)
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) as Mrs. Starkey (uncredited)
Funny Girl (1968) as Mrs. O'Malley
Bad Manners (1984) as Mother Celestina
Television
Sherlock Holmes (1 episode, 1954) as Maggie Blake
Conrad Nagel Theater (2 episodes, 1955)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1 episode, 1955) as Mary
Peter Gunn (1 episode, 1959) as Mrs. 'J'
Markham (1 episode, 1959) as Landlady
The Lawless Years (2 episodes, 1959) as Jane Morrison
The Millionaire (1 episode, 1960) as Martha Chambers
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (2 episodes, 1959–1960) as Aunt Catherine
General Electric Theater (1 episode, 1961) as Mrs. McQueen
The Loretta Young Show (1 episode, 1961) as Lettie Harron
The Law and Mr. Jones (1 episode, 1961) as Vera's Friend
The Twilight Zone (1 episode, 1961) as Rose Kramer
Maverick (3 episodes, 1959–1961) as Dorritt MacGregor
Have Gun - Will Travel (1 episode, 1961) as Mona Lansing
The Lawman (1 episode, 1962) as Miss Selma
Hazel (1 episode, 1962) as Hilda
Dr. Kildare (2 episodes, 1961–1963) as Eleanor Quayle
The Farmer's Daughter (1 episode, 1965) as Mrs. Buchanan
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (3 episodes, 1963–1965) as Ethyl Chesterman
Perry Mason (4 episodes, 1960–1966) as Agatha Culpepper
Gunsmoke (3 episodes, 1959–1967) as Essie Benlan, Mrs. Blouze
The F.B.I. (1 episode, 1968) as Ruth Kolner
Hawaii Five-O (1 episode, 1968) as Landlady
Medical Center (1 episode, 1970) as Mrs. Sorenson
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1 episode, 1972) as Mrs. Ross
Ladies of the Corridor (1975) as Mary Linscott
Charlie's Angels (1 episode, 1976) as Grace Rodeheaver
The Love Boat (1 episode, 1977) as Mrs. Pendleton
The Tony Randall Show (2 episodes, 1976–1977) as Kim Reubner
How the West Was Won (1978) as Clara
Eight Is Enough (1 episode, 1979) as Mrs. Walker
Three's Company (1 episode, 1982) as Mrs. Peabody
Hill Street Blues (1 episode, 1984) as Mrs. Parsons
Seduced (1985) as Mrs. Youngquist
Something in Common (1986) as Aunt Celia
Outlaws (1 episode, 1987) as Liz' Wade (final appearance)
References
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1909 births
1996 deaths
American film actresses
American television actresses
American stage actresses
Actresses from New York City
20th-century American actresses