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Profile of Geraldine Page
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Geraldine Page |
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22nd November 1924 |
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Kirksville, Missouri, USA |
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Geraldine Page (November 22, 1924 - June 13, 1987) was an American actress.
She was born Geraldine Sue Page in Kirksville, Missouri. She attended the Goodman Theatre Dramatic School and studied acting with Uta Hagen. She began appearing in stock at the age of seventeen. She earned critical accolades for her performances in several Tennessee Williams plays like Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth.
She was active in film as well as Broadway. In 1960 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Her film debut was in Out of the Night (1947). Her role in Hondo, garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In all, despite her relatively small filmography, Page received eight Academy Award nominations. She won for her final nomination for The Trip to Bountiful (1985). She also voiced the hilariously evil "Madame Medusa" in the Disney animated film The Rescuers.
Page has also appeared in television productions and won Emmy Awards for two Truman Capote stories, A Christmas Memory (1967) and The Thanksgiving Visitor (1969).
She was married to violinist Alexander Schneider from 1954 to 1957. Later she married 7 years younger Texan actor, Rip Torn, in 1963 and they remained married until her death, despite the fact that shortly before her death he had been publicly exposed for conducting an extramarital affair with a much younger actress (Amy Wright, born in 1950), whom he had impregnated.
Page and Torn had three children, a daughter (actress Angelica Torn) and twin sons.
Page died of a heart attack in 1987 while appearing in Sir Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on Broadway (along with Judith Ivey and Blythe Danner) at the relatively young age of 62.
Academy Awards and Nominations
- 1986 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Trip to Bountiful
- 1985 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Pope of Greenwich Village
- 1979 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Interiors
- 1973 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Pete 'n' Tillie
- 1967 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for You're a Big Boy Now
- 1963 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sweet Bird of Youth
- 1962 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role for Summer and Smoke
- 1954 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Hondo
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