Gertrude Selby

She began her career as a vaudevillian before breaking into the nascent motion picture industry around 1914, working frequently on L-KO comedies.^[2][1][3]

In 1919, at age 24, she married wealthy Chicago socialite Townsend Netcher in Beverly Hills, California after a three-week courtship, against the wishes of Necher's family.^[4] The couple divorced in the late 1920s, with Selby filing on the grounds of cruelty.^[5][6][7] Netcher later married actress Constance Talmadge.

Selby appears to have retired from acting around the time she married Netcher, and spent several years post-divorce living in Spain with her mother and sister.^[8] The three were evacuated from their apartment in Barcelona at the start of the Spanish Civil War.^[9]

Selby then spent time in a penthouse in Paris before returning to the United States in the early 1940s at the outbreak of World War II.^[10][11] She does not appear to have ever remarried.

• Easy to Make Money (1919)
• Kidder & Ko (1918)
• Twenty-One (1918)
• The Double Room Mystery (1917)
• A Child of Mystery (1916)
• The Sign of the Poppy (1916)