Georgia Caine
Georgiana Caine was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in more than 80 films in her 51-year career.
Early 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.
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 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. Many of her parts were small and she did not receive screen credit for them. Appearing as Barbara Stanwyck's evil mother in Remember The Night, she became part of 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.
Caine made her final film appearance in 1950, at the age of 73, in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.
Personal life
In the early 1910s, Caine was married to broker A. B. Hudson.
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 April 4, 1964, at the age of 87, and is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.
Partial filmography
Good Intentions - Miss HuntingtonNight Work - Mrs. Ten EyckNight Life in Reno - Catty Bridge Player Ambassador Bill - Monte's Wife A Fool's Advice - Dinner Guest High Gear - Taxicab Customer Cradle Song - VicaressI Am Suzanne - MamaOnce to Every Woman Call It Luck - Amy LarkThe Count of Monte Cristo - Mme. De RosasRomance in the Rain - Mrs. BrownLove Time - Countess BertaudEvelyn Prentice - Mrs. Newton - Party Guest Mutiny Ahead - Pirate Party Guest Naughty Marietta - Minor Role Hooray for Love - Magenta P. 'The Countess' SchultzDante's Inferno - Fortune Teller The Crusades - Nun She Married Her Boss - Fitzpatrick The Big Broadcast of 1936 - Matron Valley of Wanted Men - Mrs. Sanderson One Rainy Afternoon - CecileMariners of the Sky - Aunt MinnieThe White Angel - Mrs. NightingaleCamille - Streetwalker Career Woman - Bridge Player Time Out for Romance - Vera BlanchardBill Cracks Down - Mrs. WitworthThe Outcasts of Poker Flat - Irate Townswoman Affairs of Cappy Ricks - Mrs. Amanda PeaselyIt's Love I'm After - Mrs. Kane45 Fathers - Mrs. Bigelow Jezebel - Mrs. Petion Women Are Like That - Mrs. Amelia BrushThe Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse - Mrs. Frederick R. Updyke His Exciting Night - Aunt Elizabeth BakerBoy Trouble - Mrs. UngerlelderDodge City - Mrs. IrvingJuarez - Lady in WaitingHoneymoon in Bali - Miss Stone, Gail's SecretaryNo Place to Go - Mrs. BradfordHollywood Cavalcade - Reporter Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Third Radio Speaker Tower of London - Dowager A Child Is Born - Mrs. Norton's Mother Swanee River - Ann Rowan Remember the Night - Lee's MotherThe Lone Wolf Meets a Lady - Mrs. PenyonBabies for Sale - Iris TalbotAll This, and Heaven Too - Lady at the Theatre Nobody's Children - Mrs. MarshallA Dispatch from Reuters - Mother in 'Our American Cousin' Christmas in July - Mrs. MacDonaldSanta Fe Trail - Officer's Wife at Party Ridin' on a Rainbow - Mariah BartlettThe Great Lie - Mrs. Pine The Nurse's Secret - Miss GriffinHurry, Charlie, Hurry - Mrs. Georgia WhitleyBlossoms in the Dust - Sam's Secretary Manpower - Head Nurse You Belong to Me - Necktie Customer Wild Bill Hickok Rides - Mrs. Oakey Hello, Annapolis - Aunt ArabellaThe Wife Takes a Flyer - Mrs. WovermanYankee Doodle Dandy - Boarder Gentleman Jim - Mrs. Geary Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant - Mrs. Kipp The Sky's the Limit - Charwoman The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - Mrs. Johnson Mr. Skeffington - Mrs. Newton The Great Moment - Mrs. Whitman Hail the Conquering Hero - Mrs. TruesmithNora Prentiss - Birthday Party Guest The Sin of Harold Diddlebock - Bearded LadyLiving in a Big Way - Committee Woman High Wall - Miss Twitchell A Double Life - Actress in 'A Gentleman's Gentleman'Give My Regards to Broadway - Mrs. WaldronUnfaithfully Yours - Dowager in Concert Box The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend - Mrs. Hingleman Bride for Sale - Mrs. Willis Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye - Julia