Georgia Caine

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.

Known For

Head Nurse (uncredited)

Manpower

Bearded Lady

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

Mrs. MacDonald

Christmas in July

Mrs. Truesmith

Hail the Conquering Hero

Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke (uncredited)

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Miss Huntington

Good Intentions

Countess Bertaud

Love Time

Miss Stone

Honeymoon in Bali

Mrs. Kane

It's Love I'm After

Irate Townswoman (uncredited)

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Cecile

One Rainy Afternoon

Mrs. Helen Marshall

Nobody's Children

Mrs. Witworth

Bill Cracks Down

Mrs. Amanda Peasely

Affairs of Cappy Ricks

Mrs. Bradford

No Place to Go

Mrs. Waldron

Give My Regards to Broadway

Mrs. Ungerleider

Boy Trouble

Mrs. Ten Eyck

Night Work

Mrs. Amelia Brush

Women Are Like That

Monte's Wife

Ambassador Bill

Mama

I Am Suzanne!

Magenta P. Schultz

Hooray for Love

Reporter

Hollywood Cavalcade

Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"

A Double Life

Mrs. Nightingale

The White Angel

Mrs. Irving

Dodge City

Lady in Waiting

Juarez

Mrs. Norton's Mother (uncredited)

A Child Is Born

Dowager

Tower of London

Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Ann Rowan

Swanee River

Mrs. Penyon

The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

Lee's Mother, Mrs. Malone

Remember the Night

Vera Blanchard

Time Out for Romance

Catty Bridge Player

Night Life in Reno

Iris Talbot

Babies for Sale

Jeff

Once to Every Woman

Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)

Santa Fe Trail

Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)

All This, and Heaven Too

Mrs. Petion (uncredited)

Jezebel

Mrs. Geary (uncredited)

Gentleman Jim

Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)

A Dispatch from Reuters

Mrs. Newton (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington

Mrs. Georgia Whitley

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

Amy Lark

Call It Luck

Mme. De Rosas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Aunt Arabella

Hello, Annapolis

Mariah Bartlett

Ridin' on a Rainbow

Mrs. Oakey

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

Mrs. Woverman

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Vicaress

Cradle Song

Mrs. Willis (uncredited)

Bride for Sale

Mrs. J.D. Swinnerton

Alex in Wonderland

Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Mrs. Brown

Romance in the Rain

Mrs. Peyton

The Lady and the Lug

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

Naughty Marietta

Fitzpatrick

She Married Her Boss

Streetwalker

Camille

Grandma (uncredited)

Nora Prentiss