Georgiana Caine: (October , â€" April , ) was an American actress who
performed both on Broadway and in more than films in her -year
career.Born in San Francisco, California in , 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 to join a Shakespearean repertory company. She made her
Broadway debut in 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-s, 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 s, when her star had started to fade. She made
her last Broadway appearance in , 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 , Caine made her first
film, Good Intentions, and in the next twenty years appeared in
films,[better source needed] mostly playing character roles[better
source needed] â€" mothers, aunts, and older neighbors â€" 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.
performed both on Broadway and in more than films in her -year
career.Born in San Francisco, California in , 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 to join a Shakespearean repertory company. She made her
Broadway debut in 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-s, 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 s, when her star had started to fade. She made
her last Broadway appearance in , 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 , Caine made her first
film, Good Intentions, and in the next twenty years appeared in
films,[better source needed] mostly playing character roles[better
source needed] â€" mothers, aunts, and older neighbors â€" 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.
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