Gertrude Warner
American actress (1917-1986)
Gertrude Warner (April 2, 1917 – January 26, 1986) was an American voice talent who played multiple characters on radio productions during the Golden Age of Radio.
Early life
Warner was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1917. Her father was James L. Warner. Her mother was Mildred Lovejoy Warner. Her brother, James L. Warner, was a B17 pilot in World War II.
Career
In 1938, Warner went to New York after having acted with a radio stock company in Hartford, Connecticut. A week after she arrived, she had the lead role in the radio drama Against the Storm.
Warner's first starring role on radio came when she was 23, playing Rebecca Lane in Beyond These Valleys on CBS. Her successful radio career continued for 28 years and well over 4,000 performances. She was considered one of the queens of daytime radio, appearing in dozens of daytime serials. Among her accomplishments was being the female lead on the dramatic anthology Brownstone Theater on Mutual.
She portrayed such well known characters as Della Street on the daytime The New Adventures of Perry Mason, "the lovely Margot Lane" on The Shadow, and the title character on Joyce Jordan, M.D. The December 6, 1943 Lux Radio Theatre 60-minute radio adaptation of the film Mrs.
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