Georgia O'Ramey
{{short description|American actress (1883–1928)}}
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| name = Georgia O'Ramey
| image = Georgie O'Ramey, stage actress (SAYRE 7099).jpg
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| caption = O'Ramey {{circa|1909}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|01|01}}Other sources cite 1884 and 1886 but 1883 is the year on her gravestone
| birth_place = Fredericktown, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1928|04|02|1883|01|01}}
| death_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
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| occupation = Actress, comedian
| years_active = 1908{{ndash}}1928
| known_for = Actress, vaudevillian
| spouse = {{Marriage|Robert B. Griffin|1912|end=divorced}}
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Georgia O'Ramey (January 1, 1883 – April 2, 1928) was an American actress in comedies and musical theatre.
Early life
O'Ramey was born in Fredericktown, Ohio to William B. O'Ramey and Emma Anquilla "Tude" Pearce. She attended Oberlin College.Matthew White, Jr., [https://books.google.com/books?id=8pfNAAAAMAAJ&dq=Georgia+O%27Ramey&pg=PA337 "The Stage"] Munsey's Magazine (March 1916): 337.
Career
File:MissSpringtimecast1916.png, George MacFarlane, Charles Meakins, Georgia O'Ramey, and Jed Prouty.]]
O'Ramey played violin in revues as a young woman.[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19040918.2.177.28.1 "'Wizard of Oz' and 'Miss Mazuma' Will Be Played This Week"] San Francisco Call (September 18, 1904): 19. via California Digital Newspaper Collection{{open access}} She acted, sang and danced regularly in Broadway musicals and comedies through the 1910s, with roles in the shows Lonesome Town (1906–1908), The Chaperon (1908–1909), Seven Days (1909–1910),[https://books.google.com/books?id=f_JNAQAAMAAJ&dq=Georgia+O%27Ramey&pg=RA17-PA5 "Astor: Seven Days"] New York Dramatic Mirror (November 20, 1909): 5. The Point of View (1912), The Switchboard (1913), A Pair of White Gloves (1913), Dancing Around (1914–1915), Around the Map (1915–1916), Miss Springtime (1916–1917), Leave It to Jane (1917–1918),David A. Jasen, A Century of American Popular Music (Routledge 2013): 37–38. {{ISBN|9781135352714}} The Velvet Lady (1919),[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZRRAQAAMAAJ&dq=Georgia+O%27Ramey&pg=PA143 "New Amsterdam: The Velvet Lady"] Theatre Magazine (March 1919): 143. Daffy Dill (1922),[https://books.google.com/books?id=N-U6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Georgia+O%27Ramey&pg=RA8-PA40 "Daffy Dill"] Musical Courier (August 31, 1922): 40. Jack and Jill (1923),[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21802733/georgia_oramey_1923/ "Georgia O'Ramey is Home Again in 'Jack and Jill'"] Buffalo Courier (March 11, 1923): 18. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} and No, No, Nanette (1925–1926).Stanley Green, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZXRAQAAQBAJ&dq=Georgia+O%27Ramey&pg=PT80 Broadway Musicals: Show by Show] (Hal Leonard Corporation 2011). {{ISBN|9781557837844}}Gerald Martin Bordman, Richard Norton, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OVdShkzkX74C&dq=Georgia+O%27Ramey&pg=PA374 American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle] (Oxford University Press 2010): 232, 374, 388, 430. {{ISBN|9780199729708}}
O'Ramey appeared in one silent film, The $5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot (1914). She also had stints in vaudeville.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21802830/georgia_oramey_1922/ "Georgia O'Ramey Pleases Belasco Vaudeville Fans"] Washington Times (February 6, 1922): 10. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} "Every day I am adding to my vaudeville vocabulary," she confessed in 1920, "and when I go back to the legitimate I am afraid my friends who have never been in vaudeville will not understand me."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21803094/georgia_oramey_1920/ "Vaudeville Twice as Hard as the 'Legitimate' Stage, Insists Georgia O'Ramey"], New-York Tribune (February 15, 1920): 36. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} During World War I, she and her costar Oscar Shaw posed for photos to promote Liberty Loans.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15360398/leave_it_to_jane_pair_first_new_loan/ "Leave it to Jane Pair First New Loan Buyers"] Philadelphia Inquirer (September 22, 1918): 22. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}
Personal life
O'Ramey married businessman Robert B. Griffin in 1912 in Greenwich, Connecticut."Georgia O'Ramey Will Wed" New York Times (May 22, 1912): 13. {{Full citation needed|date=April 2025}} They later divorced.{{when|date=November 2023}} After weeks of headaches,"Miss O'Ramey Long Ill" New York Times (April 4, 1928): 27. {{Full citation needed|date=April 2025}} she died suddenly on April 2, 1928 at a hotel in New Haven, Connecticut, just hours before the opening night of the show Nize Girl, in which she was to star. She was survived by her parents, her only known immediate survivors.{{Cite magazine |date=1928-04-16 |title=Milestones: Apr. 16, 1928 |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,786857,00.html |access-date=2023-01-29 |issn=0040-781X}} Her obituary in the New York Times noted that she was "Distinguished on the American stage for a dozen years as one of the few woman comedians who could successfully sustain a broad burlesque role."[https://www.nytimes.com/1928/04/03/archives/georgia-oramey-stage-star-is-dead-expires-suddenly-in-new-haven.html "Georgia O'Ramey, Stage Star, is Dead"] New York Times (April 3, 1928): 32."Georgia O'Ramey Funeral" New York Times (April 6, 1928): 23. {{Full citation needed|date=April 2025}} The Baltimore Sun recalled as "one of the best of our woman clowns. In a fuller sense than many of the others, she had the comedy spirit."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21802908/georgia_oramey_1928/ "Georgia O'Ramey's Death"] Baltimore Sun (April 8, 1928): 59. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} She left her estate to her parents and to the Actors Fund of America."Georgia O'Ramey Estate $11,995" New York Times (April 10, 1931): 27. ]{{Full citation needed|date=April 2025}}
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Category:American stage actresses
Category:Oberlin College alumni
Category:People from Fredericktown, Ohio
Category:American vaudeville performers
Category:American women in World War I
Category:American silent film actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses