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.
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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
Film and television
Flynn 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
Devil Dog:The Hound of Hell (1978) as Occultist
Bad Manners (1984) as Mother Celestina