
Gertrude Selby
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Gertrude Selby.
Born: November 7, 1894
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For

Gertie's Gasoline Glide
Two men are vying for the favours of Gaby. One of them takes her for a motorcycle ride, the other in his car. When the second man manages to marry her, the first takes his revenge. He calls the police, and takes the newlyweds along on a kamikaze ride in his car, chased by the police.

Who's Your Father?
This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy

Father Was a Loafer
A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.

Under New Management
Web of office romance entanglements lead to slapstick hijinks at a fly paper company.

How Stars are Made
Comedy short starring Alice Howell

The Sign of the Poppy

The Double Room Mystery
William Newman, a notorious shyster lawyer, in return for a cut of the jewels, agrees to take the case of Morris, a man convicted of stealing diamonds. After gaining possession of the gems, Newman appropriates all of them and then refuses to carry out his share of the deal. Subsequently, Newman, who is attracted to Georgianna, a maid at his boardinghouse, frames the girl on charges of theft and then arranges for her freedom, thus appearing to be her savior.

A Child of Mystery
In New York's Little Italy, Carlotta's life is run by Black Hand leaders who will not let her see her sweetheart Tom. The Black Handers also control the life of prominent Judge Andrews, because years before, after the death of Andrews' daughter, they kidnapped his granddaughter. Only now have they agreed to return her, at a charity ball, for a large ransom.

Pardon Me

Easy to Make Money
Jimmy Slocum, whose wealthy father continually pays his speeding fines and loses bets to him, wins a $1,000 bet with his father that Katherine Fowler, whom his father wants him to marry, does not love him. Jimmy then wins a $25,000 bet that he can keep from being arrested more than once in the coming year by getting a 12-month jail sentence for fighting in a bar, then sassing the judge.
Filmography
as Ethel Wheeler
as Suzanne - a Slavey
as Carlotta
as Gaby
as Gertie the Stenographer
as Miss Rocks - the Heiress