Georgia Hale

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Georgia Hale , (born June 24, 1905 in St. Joseph , Missouri , † June 7, 1985 in Hollywood California ) was an American actress . She became known in 1925 for the female lead in Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece Gold Rush .

Life

In 1922 Georgia Hale won a beauty pageant and went to New York to start a career in theater. When that failed, she tried it as a film actress in Hollywood. Her first success was the film The Salvation Hunters , which came out in theaters in 1925. Charlie Chaplin saw the stripes and dedicated Georgia Hale in the same year for the role of Barmädchens Georgia in his movie Gold Rush (The Gold Rush) , the 1942 re-emerged in a sound version. Due to the success, she became an overnight star and was signed by Paramount Pictures. The 1926 film The Great Gatsby , in which Georgia played Myrtle Wilson, was another hit.

In 1928 she made her last films, including the silent film The Last Moment . Her career came to an abrupt end with the advent of talkies . Because she was deemed unsuitable for speaking roles, her contract was terminated. In 1931 she did one more test recordings for Chaplin. Chaplin was so dissatisfied with his leading lady in City Lights, Virginia Cherrill , that he fired her. Since the film was about to be completed, he stopped using it for the missing shots. Hale later made her living as a dance instructor and later made sizable fortunes as a real estate investor in Southern California.

Autobiography

In the 1960s, Georgia Hale wrote down her memories of her time with Chaplin. This autobiographical work was published under the title Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups only ten years after her death . She was also interviewed for the British documentary series Unknown Chaplin (1983). In her memories, Hale was generally positive about Chaplin and is said to have even had an affair with him during the gold rush filming.

Filmography

  • 1925: His Marriage Wow
  • 1925: The Salvation Hunters (The Salvation Hunters)
  • 1925: Gold Rush (The Gold Rush)
  • 1926: The Rainmaker
  • 1926: The Great Gatsby
  • 1926: Man of the Forest
  • 1927: Hills of Peril
  • 1927: The Wheel of Destiny
  • 1928: A Woman Against the World
  • 1928: The Rawhide Kid
  • 1928: The Last Moment
  • 1928: Gypsy of the North
  • 1928: A Trick of Hearts
  • 1928: The Floating College
  • 1931: The Lightning Warrior

literature

  • Georgia Hale: Charlie Chaplin. Intimate Close-Ups (= Filmmakers. Vol. 44). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Heather Kiernan. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ et al. 1995, ISBN 0-8108-3003-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hale, Georgia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Joseph , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1985
Place of death Hollywood California , United States