Geraldine Page

Novemeber 22, 1924

June 13, 1987 (aged 62) in New York City, U.S.A of a heart attack

Geraldine Sue Page

Alexander Schneider (1954–57)

Rip Torn (1963–87; 3 children; her death)

Actress

1987 Riders to the Sea

1986 Native Son

1986 Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (TV movie)

1986 My Little Girl

1985 The Trip to Bountiful

1985 The Hitchhiker (TV series)

1985 White Nights

1985 Walls of Glass

1985 The Bride

1985 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TV movie)

1984 The Pope of Greenwich Village

1984 The Dollmaker (TV movie)

1984 The Parade (TV movie)

1983 Loving (TV series)

1982 The Blue and the Gray (TV mini-series)

1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

1981 Harry's War

1978 Interiors

1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV series)

1977 The Rescuers (voice)

1977 Something for Joey (TV movie)

1977 Nasty Habits

1976 Kojak (TV series)

1975 The Day of the Locust

1974 Live Again, Die Again (TV movie)

1973 Happy as the Grass Was Green

1973 The Snoop Sisters (TV series)

1972-1973 Night Gallery (TV series)

1972 Pete 'n' Tillie

1972 Ghost Story (TV series)

1972 Medical Center (TV series)

1972 Look Homeward, Angel (TV movie)

1971 J.W. Coop

1971 The Beguiled

1971 Montserrat (TV movie)

1971 The Name of the Game (TV series)

1969 Trilogy (segment "A Christmas Memory")

1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

1969 NBC Children's Theatre (TV series) Narrator

1967 The Happiest Millionaire

1967 La chica del lunes

1967 The Thanksgiving Visitor (TV movie)

1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV series)

1966 You're a Big Boy Now

1966 Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV series)

1966 The Long, Hot Summer (TV series)

1966 The Three Sisters

1964 Dear Heart

1963 Toys in the Attic

1962 Sweet Bird of Youth

1961 Summer and Smoke

1959 Sunday Showcase (TV series)

1958 Playhouse 90 (TV series)

1958 General Electric Theater (TV series)

1957 Kraft Television Theatre (TV series)

1955-1957 The United States Steel Hour (TV series)

1955 Matinee Theatre (TV series)

1955 Windows (TV series)

1955 Omnibus (TV series)

1954 The Philco Television Playhouse (TV series)

1953 Hondo

1953 Taxi (uncredited)

1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV series)

1952 Studio One (TV series)

1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV series)

Appearances

1987 The 41st Annual Tony Awards (TV special)

1987 Cinema 3 (TV series)

1986 The 58th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1986 Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (TV movie)

1985 The 57th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary)

1981 Disneyland (TV series) (voice)

1979 The 51st Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary)

1966 Today (TV series)

1963 What's My Line? (TV series)

1963 The 35th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1962 The 34th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

1951 Your Show of Shows (TV series)

Academy Awards

1986 Won Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role for: The Trip to Bountiful (1985).

1985 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984).

1979 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Interiors (1978).

1973 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Pete 'n' Tillie (1972).

1967 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: You're a Big Boy Now (1966).

1963 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).

1962 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Leading Role
for: Summer and Smoke (1961).

1954 Nominated Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Hondo (1953).

BAFTA Awards

1979 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actress
for: Interiors (1978).

1963 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Foreign Actress for: Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

1986 Won BSFC Award Best Actress for: The Trip to Bountiful (1985).

David di Donatello Awards

1963 Won David Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera) for: Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).

Emmy Awards

1969 Won Emmy Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for: The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967) (TV).

1967 Won Emmy Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama for: "ABC Stage 67" (1966). For episode "Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory".

1959 Nominated Emmy Best Single Performance by an Actress for: "Playhouse 90" (1956). For playing "The Young Woman". For episode "The Old Man".

Golden Globes

1987 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (1986) (TV).

1986 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for: The Trip to Bountiful (1985).

1979 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: Interiors (1978).

1973 Nominated Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for: Pete 'n' Tillie (1972).

1967 Nominated Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress
for: You're a Big Boy Now (1966).

1965 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: Dear Heart (1964).

1964 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: Toys in the Attic (1963).

1963 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).

1962 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama for: Summer and Smoke (1961).

Independent Spirit Awards

1986 Won Independent Spirit Award Best Female Lead
for: The Trip to Bountiful (1985).

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

1979 Won KCFCC Award Best Actress for: Interiors (1978).

Laurel Awards

1967 Nominated Golden Laurel Female Supporting Performance for: You're a Big Boy Now (1966). 5th place.

National Board of Review, USA

1970 Won NBR Award Best Actress for: Trilogy (1969).

1961 Won NBR Award Best Actress for: Summer and Smoke (1961).

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A sensation as a young actress on Broadway, Geraldine Page appeared in a number of notable productions, including a pairing with James Dean in Andre Gide's L'Immoraliste (1954) (The Immoralist). although only in her early thirties, she was a sensation, thanks to her Method training under Lee Strasberg, in the role of the Princess, an aging movie queen, in Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) - a part she reprised with equal success for Richard Brooks's screen version, gaining a Best Actress Academy Award nomination.

This began a quite remarkable trend as Page, despite appearing in only a limited number of movies because of her continuing career on Broadway - where she received a Tony nomination for her unforgettable neurotic nun in Agnes of God (1982 - went on to garner seven Oscar nominations in leading and supporting categories, and finally one Best Actress win, as an old woman making a final journey home in one of her last movies, The Trip to Bountiful (1985). Some of these performances are among the most riveting and affecting of the era: as the repressed virgin seduced by Laurence Harvey in another Williams adaptation, Summer and Smoke (1961); as a touched-by-God evangelist in The Day of the Locust (1975); and as the manipulative wife abandoned by her husband in Woody Allen's Interiors (1978). Most interestingly, perhaps, Page showed her range in her bone-chilling incarnation of a psychopathic murderer of old women in What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), a filmic riposte to Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) in which she outdoes Bette Davis in self-theatricalizing Grand Guignol. Offscreen, she was married twice, the second time to leading Hollywood actor Rip Torn, with whom she had three children.

"I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie."