Georgie Cooper

Biography

Georgie Cooper (her birth name was Georgia Cooper) was a theater actress with her husband Landers Stevens at Ye Liberty Playhouse in Oakland, California, and touring on the Orpheum Circuit. Her mother, Georgia Woodthorpe (1860-1927), was an actress whose stage name was Georgie Woodthorpe. As a child, Georgie appeared as Little Lord Fauntleroy with her mother at the Burbank Theater in Los Angeles. Around 1918 she and Landers moved to Glendale, California, where they lived the rest of their lives. Both took up careers in motion pictures. Their first son, John Landers Stevens (aka Jack Stevens,became a movie cameraman and their second son, George Stevens, went on to become a noted director/producer.