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Georgia Theodora Hale was born on June 27, 1900 in St. Joseph, Missouri. Her parents were George Washington Hale and Laura Imbrie, and her two older sisters were Eugenia and Helen. Soon, her family moved to Illinois. In 1922, she won a beauty contest in Chicago and despite strong disapproval from her father, she used the award money to go to New York City to break into theater. Unsuccessful, she left New York for Hollywood. She immediately found work as a bit player in By Divine Right (1924), and she danced in the chorus of Vanity's Price (1924). Josef von Sternberg was an assistant director on both of these films, and he gave Georgia her first break came when he cast her for the film that he directed titled The Salvation Hunters (1925). It was from this picture that Charles Chaplin hired her to play the Georgia, the dance-hall girl who wins Charlie's heart, in The Gold Rush (1925). With a very successful film, Georgia became an instant celebrity and was signed by Paramount Pictures. Her big film with Paramount was The Great Gatsby (1926) where she played the role of Myrtle Wilson. But her career never went anywhere and her last silent picture would be the film The Last Moment (1928). Deemed unsuitable for talkies, she was one of the first to be released in 1931. She found solace in Christian Science. She never married and remained loyal to Chaplin, who had her on his payroll on-and-off until 1953. She ran a dance school for a while. She also wrote her two versions of her autobiography in the 1960s but couldn't find a publisher at the time. She eventually went into real estate that made her wealthy and also found a companion, who had no idea of her film career, until she gave an interview about Charlie Chaplin in the PBS documentary Unknown Chaplin (1983). He received most of her estate when she died at the age of 85 on June 17, 1985. Her second version of her autobiography, which was more detailed than her first, that she had written in the 1960s, would finally be published ten years after her death in 1995, and it's title is "Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Closeups".- Born in Batley, Yorkshire, Gordon Rollings began his career in radio in Israel, then progressed into the circus in Paris and trained as a clown. His first television appearance was in Play School (1964) (this was the very first broadcast on BBC2). He then went onto appear as Charlie Moffit in Coronation Street (1960). From there a progression of various television and film appearances occurred. He found late fame as Arkwright in the John Smith's Yorkshire Bitter ads with his beloved "Tonto". He died, after reaching a height of notoriety, of cancer in Bristol Royal Infirmary.
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Paul Godkin's training as a dancer began at the age of seven in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. He toured Europe and the United States with the "Ballet Russe", as a soloist in Ballet Theater and as a concert performer. During World War Two, he served with the U.S. Navy for three and one-half years. His first professional choreographic effort, in 1948, served also to introduce him to Michael Todd, in "Willie the Weeper" ballet, arranged for ANTA's "Ballet Ballads.", which had been commissioned by Mr. Todd. In 1951, he arranged the dances for in international revue in Paris which starred Colette Marchand and Maurice Chevalier.- Music Department
Ivan Eppinoff was born on 24 April 1906 in Illinois, USA. Ivan died on 7 June 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Patricia Horder was born on 17 March 1909 in Canterbury, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). She was married to Arthur Hosking. She died on 7 June 1985 in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England, UK.