Biography
Georgia Hale was an American actress of the silent film era, also credited as Georgia Theodora Hale. She first gained attention for her performance in Josef von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters (1925) and was then cast by Charlie Chaplin as the dance-hall girl Georgia in The Gold Rush (1925).
The success of The Gold Rush led to a contract with Paramount Pictures. Among her subsequent roles was Myrtle Wilson in the first screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby (1926). Her other films include The Rainmaker (1926), Man of the Forest (1926) and The Last Moment (1928).
Hale’s film career ended with the transition to sound pictures. She later taught dance and wrote a memoir, Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups, published posthumously in 1995.
