Wynne Gibson
Actor
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.
Filmography
City Streets
as Agnes 1931
The Stolen Jools
as Reporter 1931
Night After Night
as Iris Dawn 1932
Man of the World
as Irene Harper 1931
Miracle on Main Street
as Sade Blake 1939
The Falcon Strikes Back
as Geraldine H. Lipton 1943
The Crime of the Century
as Mrs. Frieda Brandt 1933
Cafe Hostess
as Annie 1940
Gangs of New York
as Orchid 1938
Lady and Gent
as Puff Rogers 1932
The Devil Is Driving
as 'Silver' 1932
The Captain Hates the Sea
as Mrs. Jeddock 1934
Emergency Call
as Mabel Weenie 1933
The Crosby Case
as Lynn Ashton 1934
The Gang Buster
as Zella Cameron 1931
Forgotten Girls
as Frances Wingate 1940