- Born
- Died
- Film, TV and stage actress Georgann Johnson was a product of Decorah High School, Luther College and Northwestern University. Her father, George, was a local plumbing contractor and an amateur actor. Georgann's specialization has been in the portrayal of the all-American girl/housewife and/or the young comic's sweetheart. She met her husband, Stanley Prager, in 1953 when both were appearing briefly as replacements in the Broadway stage revival of "Room Service". In 1954, she appeared with Mike Wallace in the stage comedy, "Reclining Figure", a spoof of the art world. Her recurring role as the menacing "Princess Arura" in the noted DuMont Television Network series, Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949), widened her acceptance as a strong dramatic artist. Georgann has been notably critical of what she terms the false glamor of the stage.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Louis Rugani
- SpousesJack Tenner(September 6, 1981 - October 13, 2008) (his death)Stanley Prager(July 31, 1954 - January 18, 1972) (his death, 4 children)
- Children
- Georgann was an actress whose professional career lasted 65 years and spanned Broadway, live television, Oscar-winning films, soap operas, and more.
- Georgann liked to say that the only non-acting job she ever held was the two weeks she spent selling gloves at Lord & Taylor's.
- She played the first woman that hopeful Texas gigolo Joe Buck, played by Jon Voight, flirts with while crossing the New York City street from the Oscar-winning classic 'Midnight Cowboy' in a very memorable scene that includes Buck's quick fantasy of escorting Johnson's character into an apartment. On the other side of the street, she eventually realizes he's flirting with her after initially asking directions somewhere, and she provides a classic reaction: a cross between shock and flattery.
- Mother, with Stanley Prager, of four daughters: Carol Prager, Anne Prager, actress Sally Prager and Molly Prager.
- I am what the young American mother wishes she could look like.
- Theater people are more sane than ever before, and working in a play is a good way to pay the family diaper bills.
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