Georgie Price
Musician, Musical Artist
1901 – 1964
Who was Georgie Price?
Georgie Price 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 in March, 1932.
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