- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGeorge Weitz
- Nickname
- Eassy White
- George White started in a burlesque dance team and later became a solo act. In the 1910s he came to Broadway, where he produced, directed, wrote and sometimes even appeared in shows. He is best remembered for his annual revue "Scandals" from the late 1910s to 1939. Frances Williams, Alice Faye, Rudy Vallee, Eleanor Powell and Ann Miller appeared in his stage productions. He made two movie versions of his "Scandals" that starred Alice Faye: George White's Scandals (1934) and George White's 1935 Scandals (1935). In 1945, another film was made, George White's Scandals (1945), but that used only his material.
- IMDb mini biography by: Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
- Would sometimes sell tickets at his own box office. Reportedly, he was delighted when a patron bluffed: "You'd better give me good seats because I'm a personal friend of George White!".
- His 1929 "Scandals" is referenced by Joe E. Brown in Some Like It Hot (1959).
- He claimed that Broadway's nickname, "The Great White Way", had been coined for him.
- Beyond the theatre, playing the horses was White's sole passion. In the 1920s he once lost $70,000 ($1 million in today's dollars) on a single race.
- In July 1946 White was charged with vehicular manslaughter for a hit-and-run auto accident that killed a newlywed couple. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and served nine months at a prison farm near San Diego, CA.
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