Georgia Caine

Born: 1876-10-30

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.


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Dodge City

as Mrs. Irving
Released: 1939-04-08

In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Third Radio Speaker (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-19

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United...

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Jezebel

as Mrs. Petion (uncredited)
Released: 1938-03-26

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who...

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Santa Fe Trail

as Officer's Wife at Party (uncredited)
Released: 1940-12-20

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B....

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Juarez

as Lady in Waiting
Released: 1939-06-10

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular...

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Mr. Skeffington

as Mrs. Newton (uncredited)
Released: 1944-05-25

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

as Mme. De Rosas
Released: 1934-09-06

After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering...

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Remember the Night

as Lee's Mother
Released: 1940-01-19

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist...

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Gentleman Jim

as Mrs. Geary (uncredited)
Released: 1942-11-14

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and...

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Hail the Conquering Hero

as Mrs. Truesmith
Released: 1944-08-09

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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

as Mrs. Johnson (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-12

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild...

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Christmas in July

as Mrs. MacDonald
Released: 1940-10-25

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying...

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Naughty Marietta

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: 1935-03-29

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and...

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A Double Life

as Actress in "A Gentleman's Gentleman"
Released: 1947-12-25

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage...

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All This, and Heaven Too

as Lady at the Theatre (uncredited)
Released: 1940-07-05

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the...

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One Rainy Afternoon

as Cecile
Released: 1936-05-13

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes...

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke (uncredited)
Released: 1938-07-20

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by...

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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

as Bearded Lady
Released: 1947-04-04

Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team...

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The White Angel

as Mrs. Nightingale
Released: 1936-06-25

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards...

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Tower of London

as Dowager
Released: 1939-11-17

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord,...

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Time Out for Romance

as Vera Blanchard
Released: 1937-02-10

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted...

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It's Love I'm After

as Mrs. Kane
Released: 1937-10-08

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

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Women Are Like That

as Mrs. Amelia Brush
Released: 1938-04-23

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire...

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Hello, Annapolis

as Aunt Arabella
Released: 1942-04-23

Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress...

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Romance in the Rain

as Mrs. Brown
Released: 1934-08-13

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a...

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Manpower

as Head Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1941-08-09

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...

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Swanee River

as Ann Rowan
Released: 1939-12-29

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...

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Alex in Wonderland

as Mrs. J.D. Swinnerton
Released: 1940-03-09

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks...

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A Child Is Born

as Mrs. Norton's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-07

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

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Honeymoon in Bali

as Miss Stone
Released: 1939-09-29

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen,...

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Night Life in Reno

as Catty Bridge Player
Released: 1931-11-01

A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An...

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Hollywood Cavalcade

as Reporter
Released: 1939-10-13

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she...

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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

as Mrs. Penyon
Released: 1940-05-30

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of...

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The Wife Takes a Flyer

as Mrs. Woverman
Released: 1942-04-28

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied...

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Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

as Mrs. Georgia Whitley
Released: 1941-06-13

In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.

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Boy Trouble

as Mrs. Ungerleider
Released: 1939-01-27

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

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I Am Suzanne!

as Mama
Released: 1933-12-25

A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. ...

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Bill Cracks Down

as Mrs. Witworth
Released: 1937-03-22

William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and...

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Ambassador Bill

as Monte's Wife
Released: 1931-11-13

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue...

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The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Irate Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-16

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

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Affairs of Cappy Ricks

as Mrs. Amanda Peasely
Released: 1937-05-24

Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his...

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Bride for Sale

as Mrs. Willis
Released: 1949-11-12

Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks...

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Cradle Song

as Vicaress
Released: 1933-11-19

In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be...

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Love Time

as Countess Bertaud
Released: 1934-11-03

Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.

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A Dispatch from Reuters

as Mother in 'Our American Cousin' (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-19

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news...

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Mrs. Oakey
Released: 1942-01-31

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

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Good Intentions

as Miss Huntington
Released: 1930-06-29

When love came the way of this gentleman crook he turned to the right---only to be caught in the...

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Hooray for Love

as Magenta P. Schultz
Released: 1935-06-14

A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes...

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Babies for Sale

as Iris Talbot
Released: 1940-06-14

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a...

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Once to Every Woman

as Jeff, a Nurse
Released: 1934-03-24

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

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Ridin' on a Rainbow

as Mariah Bartlett
Released: 1941-01-24

When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their...

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Night Work

as Mrs. Ten Eyck
Released: 1930-08-03

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department...

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Give My Regards to Broadway

as Mrs. Waldron
Released: 1948-06-08

A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play...

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No Place to Go

as Mrs. Bradford
Released: 1939-09-23

An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law,...

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Nobody's Children

as Mrs. Helen Marshall
Released: 1940-12-12

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.

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