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Personal life

Woodthorpe married actor Fred Cooper and they had four children, cinematographer Harry Cooper, screenwriter Olive Cooper Curtis, Georgia Cooper Stevens, and Edith Cooper Carrer. She married William T. Wallace in 1920.

Filmography

* ''Kultur'', 1918 * ''Better Times'', 1919 * ''The Midnight Man'' (serial), 1919 * '' The Old Maid's Baby'', 1919 * '' Madame Peacock'', 1920 * ''Merely Mary Ann'', 1920 * '' Rose of Nome'', 1920 * ''The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'', 1921 * ''

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'', 1921 * ''The Song of Life'', 1922 * ''Gimme'', 1923 * '' Thundering Dawn'', 1923 * ''Roughed Lips'', 1923 * ''Daddies'', 1924

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodthorpe, Georgia Created via preloaddraft 1859 births 1927 deaths American stage actresses American film actresses