Georgia Caine

Georgia Caine

  • Birthday: 1876-10-30
  • Deathday: 1964-04-04
  • Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA
  • Also know as: Georgia Cain

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Georgia Caine (30 October 1876 – 4 April 1964) was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in more than 80 films in her 51-year career. Born in San Francisco, California in 1876, the daughter of two Shakespearean actors, George Caine and the former Jennie Darragh, she travelled with them when they toured the country. Caine left school at the age of 17 to join a Shakespearean repertory company. She made her Broadway debut in 1899 as the star of the musical A Reign of Error. Caine continued to perform continuously on Broadway as a star or featured performer, primarily in musicals, until the mid-1930s, including in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly, as well as his Mary, and The O'Brien Girls,. She appeared in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow both on Broadway and in London. Caine was often written about by theater columnists until the 1930s, when her star had started to fade. She made her last Broadway appearance in 1935, in Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's A Slight Case of Murder. With her stage career fading, Caine took advantage of the advent of talking pictures to change her focus and moved to California to work in Hollywood. In 1930, Caine made her first film, Good Intentions, and in the next twenty years appeared in 83 films, mostly playing character roles – mothers, aunts, and older neighbors – although she occasionally played against type, such as when she was a streetwalker in Camille (1936). Many of her parts were small and she did not receive screen credit for them. In 1940, Caine appeared as Barbara Stanwyck's mother in the film Remember the Night, which was written by Preston Sturges, and she would go on to become part of Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actresses, appearing in seven other films written by Sturges. Caine made her final film appearance in 1950, at the age of 73, in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Caine in the musical Adele (1913) According to Marie Dressler The Unlikeliest Star by Betty Lee, about Caine's friend Marie Dressler, Caine was married to a prominent man from San Francisco by the 1920s, but the book gives no information on what his name was or when or for how long they were married. Georgia Caine died in Hollywood, California on 4 April 1964, at the age of 87, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

Filmography

Nobody's Children

1940

As Mrs. Helen Marshall

The Lady and the Lug

1941

As Mrs. Peyton

I Am Suzanne!

1933

As Mama

Call It Luck

1934

As Amy Lark

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

1937

As Mrs. Amanda Peasely

No Place to Go

1939

As Mrs. Bradford

Babies for Sale

1940

As Iris Talbot

Ridin' on a Rainbow

1941

As Mariah Bartlett

Alex in Wonderland

1940

As Mrs. J.D. Swinnerton

Hail the Conquering Hero

1944

As Mrs. Truesmith

One Rainy Afternoon

1936

As Cecile

Give My Regards to Broadway

1948

As Mrs. Waldron

Good Intentions

1930

As Miss Huntington

Bill Cracks Down

1937

As Mrs. Witworth

Once to Every Woman

1934

As Jeff, a Nurse

The Count of Monte Cristo

1934

As Mme. De Rosas

The Wife Takes a Flyer

1942

As Mrs. Woverman

Cradle Song

1933

As Vicaress

Honeymoon in Bali

1939

As Miss Stone

It's Love I'm After

1937

As Mrs. Kane

Night Life in Reno

1931

As Catty Bridge Player

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

1940

As Mrs. Penyon

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

1941

As Mrs. Georgia Whitley

Romance in the Rain

1934

As Mrs. Brown

Night Work

1930

As Mrs. Ten Eyck

Women Are Like That

1938

As Mrs. Amelia Brush

Hooray for Love

1935

As Magenta P. Schultz

The White Angel

1936

As Mrs. Nightingale

Time Out for Romance

1937

As Vera Blanchard

Bride for Sale

1949

As Mrs. Willis

Christmas in July

1940

As Mrs. MacDonald

Ambassador Bill

1931

As Monte's Wife

Hello, Annapolis

1942

As Aunt Arabella

Boy Trouble

1939

As Mrs. Ungerleider

Juarez

1939

As Lady in Waiting

Remember the Night

1940

As Lee's Mother

Love Time

1934

As Countess Bertaud

Dodge City

1939

As Mrs. Irving

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

1947

As Bearded Lady

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

1937

As Irate Townswoman (uncredited)

Naughty Marietta

1935

As Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

A Child Is Born

1939

As Mrs. Norton's Mother (uncredited)

Swanee River

1939

As Ann Rowan

Mr. Skeffington

1944

As Mrs. Newton (uncredited)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938

As Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke (uncredited)

A Dispatch from Reuters

1940

As Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

As Mrs. Oakey

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

1943

As Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)

Manpower

1941

As Head Nurse (uncredited)

Gentleman Jim

1942

As Mrs. Geary (uncredited)

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

As Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)

Jezebel

1938

As Mrs. Petion (uncredited)

Santa Fe Trail

1940

As Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)

A Double Life

1947

As Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"

Hollywood Cavalcade

1939

As Reporter

Tower of London

1939

As Dowager

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

As Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)

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