Page, Geraldine

Page, Geraldine
born Nov. 22, 1924, Kirksville, Mo., U.S.
died June 13, 1987, New York, N.Y.

U.S. actress.

She studied drama in Chicago and New York and won fame on Broadway as Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke (1952; film, 1961). Noted for her intuitiveness and creativity in capturing her often vulnerable, eccentric characters, she starred in The Rainmaker (1954–55), Separate Tables (1957–58), Strange Interlude (1963), and Agnes of God (1982). Her films include Hondo (1953), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), and The Trip to Bountiful (1985, Academy Award). She won Emmy Awards for A Christmas Memory (1966) and The Thanksgiving Visitor (1968).

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▪ American actress
in full  Geraldine Sue Page 
born Nov. 22, 1924, Kirksville, Mo., U.S.
died June 13, 1987, New York, N.Y.
 versatile American actress noted primarily for her interpretations of the heroines of Tennessee Williams (Williams, Tennessee)'s plays.

      Page had aspirations of becoming a pianist or visual artist, but at 17 she appeared in her first amateur theatre production, and from that point, she never wavered from her desire to be a professional actress. She attended (1942–45) the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago and later studied at the Herbert Berghof School and the American Theatre Wing drama school in New York City. She and others organized their own acting company at Lake Zurich, 35 miles (55 km) outside of Chicago, and for several years she spent her summers as a stock actress at Lake Zurich and her winters in New York City, looking for a role in a major production.

      In the early 1950s, José Quintero (Quintero, José) gave Page a small but challenging role in a production of Federico García Lorca's Yerma. In 1952, also for Quintero, she played the lead role in Tennessee Williams's play Summer and Smoke. While the production was a modest one and the theatre small, the play was both a critical and popular success. In 1953 Page realized her dream of becoming a Broadway leading lady when she was called upon to play Lily, the idealistic, naive heroine in Vina Delmar's Mid-Summer. Although she appeared briefly in the films Out of the Night (1947) and Taxi (1953), she found her first starring film role in Hondo (1953), opposite John Wayne (Wayne, John).

      She returned to the stage, appearing in such productions as André Gide's The Immoralist (1954), N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker (1954–55), Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1957–58), Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth (1959–60), Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude (1963), Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980), and John Pielmeier's Agnes of God (1982). Her film work included Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), The Day of the Locust (1975), Interiors (1978), and Harry's War (1981).

      Page was married to actor Rip Torn, and together they founded the repertory company Stock Theater. She also worked in television, winning two Emmy Awards for her performances in A Christmas Memory (1966) and The Thanksgiving Visitor (1968). In 1985 she starred in the film The Trip to Bountiful, for which she won an Academy Award. As an actress, Page was respected for her intuitiveness and creativity in capturing her often vulnerable, eccentric characters. When she died in 1987, she was still acting on Broadway in Blithe Spirit. Her last film, My Little Girl, had not yet been released.

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