Gertrude Olmstead

Birthday
Nov 13, 1897

Bio: A contest winner in her native Chicago, brunette silent screen ingenue Gertrude Olmstead (or, as it was sometimes spelled, "Olmsted") appeared opposite Greta Garbo in the Swedish star's first Hollywood film, The Torrent (1926). That role, along with the leading femme role in Lon Chaney's The Monster (1925), proved perhaps the highlights of a screen career that had… More

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