Wynne Gibson
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.
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Movies (44)
Mystery Broadcast
as Eve Stanley
1943
The Falcon Strikes Back
as Geraldine H. Lipton
1943
A Man's World
as Blossom Donovan
1942
Double Cross
as Fay Saunders
1941
Forgotten Girls
as Frances Wingate
1940
Cafe Hostess
as Annie
1940
My Son Is Guilty
as Claire Morelli
1939
Miracle on Main Street
as Sade Blake
1939
Flirting with Fate
as Bertha
1938
Gangs of New York
as Orchid
1938
Trapped by G-Men
as Alice Segar, posing as Mrs. Donovan
1937
Michael O'Halloran
as Grace Mintum
1937
Racketeers in Exile
as 'Babe' DeVoe
1937
Come Closer, Folks
as Mae
1936
The Crouching Beast
as Gail Dunbar
1935
Admirals All
as Gloria Gunn
1935
Gambling
as Maizie Fuller
1934
The Captain Hates the Sea
as Mrs. Jeddock
1934
I Give My Love
as Judy Blair
1934
The Crosby Case
as Lynn Ashton
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
Sleepers East
as Lena Karelson
1934
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
as Agnes 'Aggie' Appleby
1933
Her Bodyguard
as Margot Brienne
1933
Emergency Call
as Mabel Weenie
1933
The Crime of the Century
as Mrs. Frieda Brandt
1933
The Devil Is Driving
as 'Silver'
1932
If I Had a Million
as Violet Smith (uncredited)
1932
Night After Night
as Iris Dawn
1932
Lady and Gent
as Puff Rogers
1932
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
as Clara Deane
1932
Two Kinds of Women
as Phyllis Adrian
1932
Ladies of the Big House
as Susie Thompson
1931
The Road to Reno
as Mrs. It-Ritch
1931
Kick In
as Myrtle Sylvester
1931
City Streets
as Agnes
1931
The Stolen Jools
as Reporter
1931
Man of the World
as Irene Harper
1931
June Moon
as Lucille Sears
1931
The Gang Buster
as Zella Cameron
1931
The Fall Guy
as Lottie Quinlan
1930
Children of Pleasure
as Emma Gray
1930
Sympathy
as Trixie
1929
Nothing But the Truth
as Sabel Jackson
1929
