Person Details

Birthday: 1876-10-30 12:22:59

Death: 1964-04-04 12:22:59

Aliases: Georgia Cain , Georgia Craine

Gender: Female

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 31

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Jezebel
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7

Jezebel

(1938) Mrs. Petion (uncredited)
Dodge City
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7

Dodge City

(1939) Mrs. Irving
Santa Fe Trail
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6

Santa Fe Trail

(1940) Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)
The Count of Monte Cristo
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7

The Count of Monte Cristo

(1934) Mme. De Rosas
Mr. Skeffington
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7

Mr. Skeffington

(1944) Mrs. Newton (uncredited)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
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7

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

(1938) Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke (uncredited)
All This, and Heaven Too
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7

All This, and Heaven Too

(1940) Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Tower of London
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6

Tower of London

(1939) Dowager

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1949 Mrs. Willis
1948 Mrs. Waldron
1947 Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
Bearded Lady
1944 Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Mrs. Truesmith
Mrs. Newton (uncredited)
1942 Mrs. Geary (uncredited)
Mrs. Woverman
Aunt Arabella
Mrs. Oakey
1941 Head Nurse (uncredited)
Mrs. Georgia Whitley
Mrs. Peyton
Mariah Bartlett
1940 Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)
Mrs. Helen Marshall
Mrs. MacDonald
Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)
Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Iris Talbot
Mrs. Penyon
Mrs. J.D. Swinnerton
Lee's Mother
1939 Ann Rowan
Mrs. Norton's Mother (uncredited)
Dowager
Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Reporter
Miss Stone
Mrs. Bradford
Lady in Waiting
Mrs. Irving
Mrs. Ungerleider
1938 Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke (uncredited)
Mrs. Amelia Brush
Mrs. Petion (uncredited)
1937 Mrs. Kane
Mrs. Amanda Peasely
Irate Townswoman (uncredited)
Mrs. Witworth
Vera Blanchard
1936 Mrs. Nightingale
Cecile
1935 Magenta P. Schultz
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1934 Countess Bertaud
Mme. De Rosas
Mrs. Brown
Amy Lark
Jeff, a Nurse
1933 Mama
Vicaress
1931 Monte's Wife
Catty Bridge Player
1930 Mrs. Ten Eyck
Miss Huntington
Year Character Movie/Tv

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