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Georgia Caine

 
Actor: Georgia Caine
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  • Born: Oct 30, 1876
  • Died: Apr 04, 1964
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'40s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, A Double Life, Nobody's Children
  • First Major Screen Credit: Call It Luck (1934)

Biography

Georgia Caine is best remembered today by film buffs for her work in most of Preston Sturges's classic films for Paramount Pictures, as well as the movies he subsequently made independently and at 20th Century Fox. She was practically born on stage, the daughter of George Caine and the former Jennie Darragh, both of whom were Shakespearean actors. As an infant and toddler, she was kept in the company of her parents as they toured the United States. Bitten by the theatrical bug, she left school before the age of 17 to become an actress and she started out in Shakespearean repertory. Caine quickly shifted over to musical comedy, however, and became a favorite of George M. Cohan, appearing in his plays Mary, The O'Brien Girls, and The Silver Swan, among others. In 1914, she also starred in a stage production of The Merry Widow in London. Caine was a favorite subject of theater columnists during the teens and '20s. By the end of that decade, however, after 30 years on stage, her star had begun to fade, and that was when Hollywood beckoned. The advent of talking pictures suddenly created a demand for actors and actresses who could handle spoken dialogue. She moved to the film Mecca at the outset of the 1930s, and Caine worked in more than 60 films over the next 20 years, usually playing mothers, aunts, and older neighbors. She also occasionally broke out of that mold to do something strikingly different, most notably in Camille (1937), in which she portrayed a streetwalker. Starting with Christmas in July in 1940, she was a regular member of Preston Sturges' stock company of players (even portraying a bearded lady in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), appearing in most of his movies right up to his directorial swan song, The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend (1949). ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
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Georgia Caine

c.1903
Born 30 October 1876
San Francisco, California U.S.
Died 4 April 1964 (aged 87)
Hollywood, California U.S.
Occupation actress
Years active 1899–1950

Georgia Caine (30 October 1876 – 4 April 1964) was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in over 80 films in her 21 year career.

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Early career

Born in San Francisco, California in 1876, the daughter of two Shakespearean actors, George Caine and the former Jennie Darragh,[1] she travelled with them when they toured the country. Caine left school at the age of 17 to join a Shakespearean repertory company.[1] 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,[2] including in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly,[3] as well as his Mary,[4] and The O'Brien Girls,[5]. She appeared in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow both on Broadway[6] and in London.[1]

Caine was often written about by theater columnists until the 1930s, when her star had started to fade.[1] She made her last Broadway appearance in 1935, in Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's A Slight Case of Murder.[7]

Film career

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,[8] mostly playing character roles[9] – mothers, aunts, and older neighbors[1] – although she occasionally played against type, such as when she was a streetwalker in Camille (1936).[1] 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,[10] and she would go on to become part of Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in seven other films written by Sturges.[11]

Caine made her final film appearance in 1950, at the age of 73, in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.[12]

Personal life

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, but the book gives no information on what his name was or when or for how long they were married.[13]

Georgia Caine died in Hollywood, California on 4 April 1964, at the age of 87, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Georgia Caine at Allmovie
  2. ^ Georgia Caine at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. ^ Little Nellie Kelly (1922) at the Internet Broadway Database
  4. ^ Mary at the Internet Broadway Database
  5. ^ The O'Brien Girls at the Internet Broadway Database
  6. ^ The Merry Widow (1907) at the Internet Broadway Database
  7. ^ A Slight Case of Murder (1935) at the Internet Broadway Database
  8. ^ Georgia Caine at the Internet Movie Database
  9. ^ IMDB Bio
  10. ^ Remember the Night at the Internet Movie Database
  11. ^ Caine appeared in Remember the Night, Christmas in July, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Great Moment, Unfaithfully Yours, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
  12. ^ Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye at the Internet Movie Database
  13. ^ Lee, Betty. ''Marie Dressler The Unlikeliest Star p.169
  14. ^ Georgia Caine at Find a Grave

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