Geraldine Page Pics

Geraldine

Page

22 November 1924

Sue

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Slim

Grey

Kirksville, Missouri

Scorpio

13 June 1987

New York, New York, USA

heart attack

White

American

Female

You`re a Big Boy Now

Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American actress. Although she starred in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful in March 1986, just over a year before she died.

Considered by many to be one of the greatest American actresses of all time, Geraldine Page was a master craftswoman who seemed to bring out the most inner detail of the character she was playing. Her dedication to her craft has earned her the respect of many of today`s great actors including Meryl Streep and Michelle Pfeiffer. Geraldine Sue Page was born on November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri to Dr. Leon Elwin Page, an osteopathic physician and Pearl Maize Page, a homemaker. She had an older brother named Donald. The family moved to Chicago when Page was five years old. Growing up, her interests and hobbies always were directed toward the arts. She tried writing and painting while younger, but that proved to be too frustrating. She wanted to be a concert pianist, but her family couldn`t afford all that training. While she was still a preteen, she joined the drama club at her church and soon found her passion. She began reading all kinds of plays as well as reading about actors. She was fascinated with the careers of actresses like Lucille La Verne, Maude Adams, and Eva Le Gallienne. During the 1950s, Page`s theater career flourished. She played a variety of roles on Broadway including a vindictive wife of a homosexual in "The Immoralist," to a lonely spinster in "The Rainmaker." She also made frequent radio and television appearances and honed her craft at the Actors Studio. It was in the fall of 1959 that Page starred opposite Paul Newman in Tennessee Williams` "Sweet Bird of Youth." Her role as a pathetic fading movie star earned universal praise, her first Tony Award nomination, and interest again from Hollywood. It was also when she met and married one of her co-stars, actor Rip Torn. In 1961 she starred in the film version of "Summer and Smoke" and in 1962 in "Sweet Bird of Youth." She earned consecutive Golden Globe awards as well as Academy Award nominations for these two performances. In the 1970s one of her few hits on Broadway was as a drunken banker`s wife in "Absured Person Singular." This role netted her a second Tony Award nomination. One of her bigger triumphs on the stage was the Sancturay Theater Compnay which she and her husband Rip Torn founded off-Broadway. Although it only lasted a couple of years, it gave young actors a chance to work, and many of the productions were given rave reviews by critics. Some of her more memorable film roles in the 1970s included her role as a nosy matchmaker in "Pete `n` Tillie" (Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress) as a controversial religious leader in "The Day of the Locust" as the voice of the villain Madame Medusa in The Rescuers (1977) and as the suicidal mother in "Interiors" (Oscar nomination as Best Actress). In the 1980s she began teaching acting at the Pelian Theater School. In 1982 she had another triumph on Broadway as Mother Superior in "Agnes of God" a role which earned her a third Tony Award nomination. She died of a heart attack leaving behind her husband and their three children. She was 62 years old. A memorial service was held at a Broadway theater and numerous actors and celebrities payed their respects including Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, and Paul Newman among others. Ronald and Nancy Reagan had flowers sent from the White House to the memorial service.

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