Wynne Gibson
Acting • Born 1905-07-03 – Died 1987-05-15
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
46 credits
Gangs of New York
Movie • 1938
Orchid
City Streets
Movie • 1931
Agnes
The Falcon Strikes Back
Movie • 1943
Geraldine H. Lipton
Night After Night
Movie • 1932
Iris Dawn
The Captain Hates the Sea
Movie • 1934
Mrs. Jeddock
The Crime of the Century
Movie • 1933
Mrs. Frieda Brandt
If I Had a Million
Movie • 1932
Violet Smith (uncredited)
Man of the World
Movie • 1931
Irene Harper
Emergency Call
Movie • 1933
Mabel Weenie
Forgotten Girls
Movie • 1940
Frances Wingate
Racketeers in Exile
Movie • 1937
'Babe' DeVoe
Trapped by G-Men
Movie • 1937
Alice Segar, posing as Mrs. Donovan
Double Cross
Movie • 1941
Fay Saunders
Mystery Broadcast
Movie • 1943
Eve Stanley
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Movie • 1932
Clara Deane
Ladies of the Big House
Movie • 1931
Susie Thompson
Lady and Gent
Movie • 1932
Puff Rogers
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Movie • 1933
Agnes 'Aggie' Appleby
Flirting with Fate
Movie • 1938
Bertha
The Fall Guy
Movie • 1930
Lottie Quinlan
Children of Pleasure
Movie • 1930
Emma Gray
The Devil Is Driving
Movie • 1932
'Silver'
Two Kinds of Women
Movie • 1932
Phyllis Adrian
Gambling
Movie • 1934
Maizie Fuller
Miracle on Main Street
Movie • 1939
Sade Blake
Admirals All
Movie • 1935
Gloria Gunn
My Son Is Guilty
Movie • 1939
Claire Morelli
Nothing but the Truth
Movie • 1929
Sabel Jackson
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Reporter
Cafe Hostess
Movie • 1940
Annie
The Crouching Beast
Movie • 1935
Gail Dunbar
Sympathy
Movie • 1929
Trixie
Kick In
Movie • 1931
Myrtle Sylvester
Sleepers East
Movie • 1934
Lena Karelson
The Road to Reno
Movie • 1931
Mrs. It-Ritch
Come Closer, Folks
Movie • 1936
Mae
The Crosby Case
Movie • 1934
Lynn Ashton
Her Bodyguard
Movie • 1933
Margot Brienne
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Movie • 1934
June Moon
Movie • 1931
Lucille Sears
The Gang Buster
Movie • 1931
Zella Cameron
I Give My Love
Movie • 1934
Judy Blair
A Man's World
Movie • 1942
Blossom Donovan
Michael O'Halloran
Movie • 1937
Grace Mintum
Producers' Showcase
TV • 1954
Studio One
TV • 1948
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