Georgiana Young was born Georgiana Paula Belzer in Los Angeles on September 30, 1924, the daughter of George Uncus Belzer and Gladys Royal. Along with her half-sisters, she was raised Roman Catholic.
Young's acting career was short-lived, though she appeared in three films. Her debut role was as Berta Hubbard, sister of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, in Irving Cummings's 1939 biographical film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, opposite her sisters Loretta (as Mabel), Sally, and Polly Ann. She would later have bit parts in two other films: No, No, Nanette (1940), and Border Incident (1949), the latter of which starred her husband, actor Ricardo Montalbán, whom she married in 1944.
Young met Ricardo Montalbán in 1942. After seeing her performance in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), Montalbán fell in love with her.
The couple wed in Los Angeles in 1944 and remained married married until her death in 2007 at age 83 from undisclosed causes. The couple had four children: Laura (1945–2017), Mark (b. 1947), Anita (b. 1949), and Victor (b. 1952).
