Georgie Price (George Edwards Price January 5, 1901 - May 10, 1964) was an American vaudeville singer and comic who performed in Vitaphone shorts in the 1920s and 1930s. Price began as a child performer in public places such as barrooms and streetcars, before winning amateur competitions. At six years old, he so impressed opera singer Enrico Caruso that he performed with Caruso in a benefit concert for a deceased police officers family. It was Price, as a vaudeville child star, who in 1909 introduced the famous Edwards-Madden song By the Light of the Silvery Moon in Gus Edwards' revue School Boys and Girls. As an adult professional he drew comparisons to Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor. A bitter dispute with Shubert theatre magnate, Jacob J. Shubert, caused Price by the late 1920s to give up show business to work as a Wall Street broker. Shubert had originally hired Price with the promise to turn him into a major headliner, but then reneged and in turn refused to fulfill the financial obligations on Price's contract.Georgie Price appeared in the stage show at the Mastbaum Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylavania with Barto and Mann and Maria Gambarelli (Gamby) in March, 1932.
The story of his difficulties with the Shuberts is chronicled in the book, "The Schuberts". His son played Caruso as a Boy in "The Great Caruso", and later became a director for WGN-TV (in Chicago). The entire family have been in show business.
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Two children, with Manners, including son Peter Price
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Postal Union
1937
Short
Postal Union Employee
Captain Blue Blood
1937
Short
Georgie
Soft Drinks and Sweet Music
1934
Short
George Harris
Station B-U-N-K
1929
Short
Georgie Price
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Postal Union
1937
Short performer: "I'm Picketing, Baby", "I'm a Musical Magical Man" - uncredited
Vitaphone Headliners
1935
Short writer: "Angel Child" - uncredited
Soft Drinks and Sweet Music
1934
Short performer: "I'd Like to Dance the Whole Night Through", "Bring Back Those Melodramatic Days" - uncredited
Don't Get Nervous
1929
Short performer: "Hello, Sunshine, Hello" 1929, "Sweetheart's Holiday" - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1951-1954
TV Series
Himself / Himself - Comedian
This Is Your Life
1953
TV Series
Himself
Songs for Sale
1952
TV Series
Himself
Texaco Star Theatre
1948-1952
TV Series
Himself - Guest Host / Himself - Comedian / Himself - Host / ...