Geraldine Page has appeared on television and on stage and earned her first Tony Award nomination for her performance in Sweet Bird of Youth, a role she reprised in the 1962 film adaptation, the latter of which earned her a Golden Globe Award.
40 Facts About Geraldine Page
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Geraldine Page earned additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in Summer and Smoke, You're a Big Boy Now and Pete 'n' Tillie, followed by a Tony nomination for her performance in the stage production of Absurd Person Singular.
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Geraldine Page was nominated for Academy Awards for her performances in The Pope of Greenwich Village and The Trip to Bountiful, the latter of which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Geraldine Page died in New York City in 1987 in the midst of a Broadway run of Blithe Spirit, for which she earned her fourth Tony Award nomination.
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Geraldine Page was an author whose works included Practical Anatomy, Osteopathic Fundamentals, and The Old Doctor.
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At age five, Geraldine Page relocated with her family to Chicago.
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Geraldine Page, a trained method actor, spent five years appearing in various repertory theater productions in the Midwest and New York after graduating from college.
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Geraldine Page was cast in the role of Alma in the Quintero-directed production of Summer and Smoke, written by Tennessee Williams.
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In 2015 Angelica Geraldine Page revealed that her mother had an affair with Dean during the production of The Immoralist.
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Geraldine Page played the same role of Alma Winemiller in a 1953 radio version and a film version in 1961 opposite Laurence Harvey.
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In 1959, Geraldine Page earned an Emmy nomination, of Best Single Performance by an Actress, for her role in the Playhouse 90 episode "The Old Man," written by William Faulkner.
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Geraldine Page actually won consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1961 and 1962 for Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth, respectively.
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In 1963, Geraldine Page starred in Toys in the Attic, based on Lillian Hellman's play of the same name, and garnered a Golden Globe nomination.
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Geraldine Page received another nomination the following year starring in Delbert Mann's Dear Heart as a self-sufficient but lonely postmistress visiting New York City for a convention, finding love with a greeting card salesman.
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Between 1966 and 1969, Geraldine Page appeared in two holiday-themed television productions based on stories by Truman Capote: "The Christmas Memory" and the television film The Thanksgiving Visitor, both of which earned her two consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Actress.
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Geraldine Page subsequently appeared in the Don Siegel-directed thriller The Beguiled opposite Clint Eastwood, playing the headmistress of a Southern girls' boarding school who takes in a wounded Union soldier.
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Geraldine Page appeared in three episodes of Rod Serling's Night Gallery between 1972 and 1973.
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Geraldine Page received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1975 production of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular with Sandy Dennis and Richard Kiley.
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Geraldine Page had a supporting role as a charismatic Hollywood evangelist in The Day of the Locust, an adaptation of the Nathanael West novel of the same name.
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Geraldine Page appeared as the mother of three siblings and wife of a prominent attorney in Woody Allen's Interiors.
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Geraldine Page starred as Zelda Fitzgerald in the last major Broadway production of a Williams play, Clothes for a Summer Hotel in 1980, followed by a supporting role in Harry's War.
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Geraldine Page starred as the secretive nun Mother Miriam Ruth in the Broadway production of Agnes of God, which opened in 1982 and ran for 599 performances with Geraldine Page performing in nearly all of them; for her role, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Also in 1983, Geraldine Page invited the young actress Sabra Jones Strasberg to her dressing room to talk to Strasberg about how much she had liked her performance in St Joan by Maxwell Anderson, in which Geraldine Page had just seen her play the part originated by Ingrid Bergman.
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Strasberg later founded the Mirror Theater Ltd with its repertory program the Mirror Repertory, and Geraldine Page accepted the role of Founding Artist in Residence.
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Geraldine Page earned her seventh Academy Award nomination for her performance in the dark comedy The Pope of Greenwich Village.
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On television, Geraldine Page had a supporting role in the miniseries The Dollmaker, opposite Jane Fonda and Amanda Plummer.
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Geraldine Page appeared in the British horror film The Bride opposite Sting and Jennifer Beals; the drama White Nights, directed by Taylor Hackford; and opposite Rebecca de Mornay in the drama The Trip to Bountiful, in which she played an aging Southern Texas woman seeking to return to her hometown.
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In 1986, she appeared on Broadway in The Circle by W Somerset Maugham; during this production, Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Trip to Bountiful.
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Geraldine Page wore her costume from The Circle, which had been designed and made by Gail Cooper-Hecht, the Mirror Theater's costume designer.
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Geraldine Page received the award from F Murray Abraham, who, after winning his Oscar for Amadeus, joined the Mirror Repertory Company to play the rag-picker in the Madwoman of Chaillot.
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Geraldine Page followed up Native Son with a lead role opposite Mary Stuart Masterson in My Little Girl.
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Geraldine Page was cast in the role, though the production would be Page's last.
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Geraldine Page was again nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, though she did not win.
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Geraldine Page was trained as a method actor, and at times worked with psychoanalysts when developing her interpretations of roles.
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Geraldine Page was married to violinist Alexander Schneider from 1954 to 1957.
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Geraldine Page was aware of Torn and Wright's relationship, and appeared onstage opposite Wright in the 1977 Off-Broadway production of The Stronger, under Torn's direction.
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On June 13,1987, Geraldine Page failed to arrive at the Neil Simon Theatre for both the afternoon and evening performances of Sir Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, which had begun its run in March.
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Geraldine Page earned a total of seven Oscar nominations before winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1986 for The Trip to Bountiful.
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Geraldine Page was a winner of two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and one BAFTA award.
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Geraldine Page was portrayed by her daughter, Angelica Page, in the stage production Turning Page.