Trivia

Was friends with Lita Grey. She was handed the lead role of The Gold Rush (1925) when Lita, originally cast in the role, became pregnant and had to drop out. The role won her instant star status.

Although her film career was over, Charles Chaplin hired Georgia briefly late into the lengthy shooting of City Lights (1931) to replace Virginia Cherrill (who had asked to leave early before shooting the crucial final scene for a hair appointment). A few scenes were shot before Chaplin came to his senses, realizing that using her would require scrapping most of the footage shot over the past 500+ days. Cherrill was rehired at $150 a week, which was twice her previous salary.{{Jack Backstreet}}.

"Miss Chicago" in the 1922 Miss America Pageant

In the 1950s, she wrote an unpublished novelette titled "The Edge of Life", which was deemed unsuitable by the publishers. The plot is about a heroine who waits patiently for her childhood sweetheart, who is a soldier in the Union army in the Civil War. A day or two before the wedding, she receives news that he had been killed. Years pass, she meets another young man, whom she mistakes for her long-lost lover. Though this new lover is terminally ill, he too falls in love with her. They end up happily together, in the belief that Love, the great healer, will cure all.

First actress to portray the character of Myrtle Wilson on-screen in The Great Gatsby (1926).