Up for auction RARE! “Bride for Sale” Georgia Caine Hand Signed 4X6 Embossed Card. ES-2025C Georgiana Caine (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.
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.
Appearing as Barbara Stanwyck's evil mother in Remember The Night (1940),
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.m
Caine made her final film appearance in 1950, at the age of 73, in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.[c |