Acting
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Woman
30 Oct 1876
4 Apr 1964 (87)
San Francisco, California, USA
Georgia Caine
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.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1949 | Bride for Sale | Mrs. Willis |
1948 | Give My Regards to Broadway | Mrs. Waldron |
1947 | A Double Life | Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman" |
1947 | The Sin of Harold Diddlebock | Bearded Lady |
1944 | Hail the Conquering Hero | Mrs. Truesmith |
1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Mrs. Newton (uncredited) |
1943 | The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek | Mrs. Johnson (uncredited) |
1942 | Gentleman Jim | Mrs. Geary (uncredited) |
1942 | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Mrs. Woverman |
1942 | Wild Bill Hickok Rides | Mrs. Oakey |
1942 | Hello, Annapolis | Aunt Arabella |
1941 | Manpower | Head Nurse (uncredited) |
1941 | Ridin' on a Rainbow | Mariah Bartlett |
1941 | Hurry, Charlie, Hurry | Mrs. Georgia Whitley |
1941 | The Lady and the Lug | Mrs. Peyton |
1940 | Remember the Night | Lee's Mother |
1940 | Christmas in July | Mrs. MacDonald |
1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited) |
1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) |
1940 | The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady | Mrs. Penyon |
1940 | A Dispatch from Reuters | Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited) |
1940 | Babies for Sale | Iris Talbot |
1940 | Nobody's Children | Mrs. Helen Marshall |
1940 | Alex in Wonderland | Mrs. J.D. Swinnerton |
1939 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Third Radio Speaker (uncredited) |
1939 | Dodge City | Mrs. Irving |
1939 | Tower of London | Dowager |
1939 | Juarez | Lady in Waiting |
1939 | Boy Trouble | Mrs. Ungerleider |
1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | Reporter |
1939 | A Child Is Born | Mrs. Norton's Mother (uncredited) |
1939 | Honeymoon in Bali | Miss Stone |
1939 | No Place to Go | Mrs. Bradford |
1939 | Swanee River | Ann Rowan |
1938 | Jezebel | Mrs. Petion (uncredited) |
1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke (uncredited) |
1938 | Women Are Like That | Mrs. Amelia Brush |
1937 | It's Love I'm After | Mrs. Kane |
1937 | Affairs of Cappy Ricks | Mrs. Amanda Peasely |
1937 | Time Out for Romance | Vera Blanchard |
1937 | Bill Cracks Down | Mrs. Witworth |
1937 | The Outcasts of Poker Flat | Irate Townswoman (uncredited) |
1936 | One Rainy Afternoon | Cecile |
1936 | The White Angel | Mrs. Nightingale |
1935 | Naughty Marietta | Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) |
1935 | Hooray for Love | Magenta P. Schultz |
1934 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Mme. De Rosas |
1934 | Once to Every Woman | Jeff, a Nurse |
1934 | Call It Luck | Amy Lark |
1934 | Love Time | Countess Bertaud |
1934 | Romance in the Rain | Mrs. Brown |
1933 | I Am Suzanne! | Mama |
1933 | Cradle Song | Vicaress |
1931 | Night Life in Reno | Catty Bridge Player |
1931 | Ambassador Bill | Monte's Wife |
1930 | Night Work | Mrs. Ten Eyck |
1930 | Good Intentions | Miss Huntington |