Stunning chorus girl who tried Hollywood and decided it was not for her, Georgia Lerch was somehow different. She was much lauded by her contemporaries and by the papers, and it seems that even outside movies, her career was going to go upwards. However all the promising future fell away in a daze of alcohol.
Georgia Lerch was born on August 14, 1906 in Fulton, New York, the second child of John D. Lerch and Eloise Brockway. Her older brother John was born in 1904, but sadly died before Georgia was born. Her father was a wholesale cigar merchant.
Georgia grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where the family moved in the 1910s.
She took dancing lessons and as a child, and developed a passion for appearing on the stage.
After graduating from high school, she decided to become a professional dancer, and looked for work in the theater circuit.
In 1926, Georgia scored work in one of the best places to be as a chorine - George White's Scandals! She was a chorine from 1926 until 1932. In 1930, she went with the other chorines to appear in Whooppe as a chorus girl, and there she went!
Georgia appeared in only one movie - Whoopee!, an Eddie Cantor vehicle considerably cut down from the original Broadway show. But what can I say, it's a typical Cantor movie, anyone who loves Cantor and that 1920s humor style will love it. Cantor plays Henry Williams, a nervous hypochondriac who goes west looking for a cure for his myriad of ailments and get involved in trouble along the way. There are a few good supporting players (Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Jack Rutherford). While not the bottom of the barrel, the movie didn't age well at all, since, sadly, it's a typical product of its time in relation to blackface and racial stereotypes. That was it from Georgia!
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