Georgia Caine

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Georgia Caine
Hollywood, California U.S.
Resting placeValhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
OccupationActress
Years active1899–1950
Spouse
A. B. Hudson
​
(divorced)​

Georgiana Caine[1] (October 30, 1876 – April 4, 1964) was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in more than 80 films in her 51-year career.

Early career

Caine c.1903

Born in

musicals, until the mid-1930s,[3] including in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly,[4] as well as his Mary,[5] and The O'Brien Girls,.[6] She appeared in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow both on Broadway[7] and in London.[2]

Caine was often written about by theater columnists until the 1930s, when her star had started to fade.[2] She made her last Broadway appearance in 1935, in Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay's A Slight Case of Murder.[8]

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

Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actresses, appearing in seven other films written by Sturges: 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.[1]

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

Personal life

In the early 1910s, Caine was married to broker A. B. Hudson.[9]

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.[10]

Georgia Caine died in

North Hollywood, California.[11]

Partial filmography

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9781476626062
    . Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  2. ^
    AllMovie.com
    .
  3. ^ "George Caine". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  4. ^ "Little Nellie Kelly (1922 production)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  5. ^ "Mary (1920 production)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  6. ^ "The O'Brien Girl(1921 production)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  7. ^ "The Merry Widow (1907 production)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  8. ^ "A Slight Case of Murder (1935 production)". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  9. Newspapers.com
    .
  10. ^ Lee, Betty. ''Marie Dressler The Unlikeliest Star p.169
  11. ^ Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson

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