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Geraldine Page c. 1950s

Geraldine Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American actress who earned critical recognition as a stage actress on Broadway as well as in feature films and television. Over the course of her career, which spanned over three decades, Page earned a total of eight Academy Award nominations, three Emmy nominations, and four Tony nominations. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Trip to Bountiful (1985).

Screen

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Film

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Year Title Role Director(s) Notes Ref.
1953 Taxi Florence Albert Gregory Ratoff Uncredited [1]
1953 Hondo Angie Lowe John Farrow [2]
1961 Summer and Smoke Alma Winemiller Peter Glenville [2]
1962 Sweet Bird of Youth Alexandra Del Lago Richard Brooks [2]
1963 Toys in the Attic Carrie Berniers George Roy Hill [2]
1964 Dear Heart Evie Jackson Delbert Mann [2]
1966 You're a Big Boy Now Margaret Chanticleer Francis Ford Coppola [2]
1966 The Three Sisters Olga Paul Bogart [3]
1967 Monday's Child Carol Richardson Leopoldo Torre Nilsson [4]
1967 The Happiest Millionaire Mrs. Duke Norman Tokar [3]
1969 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? Claire Marrable Lee H. Katzin [2]
1969 Trilogy Sook Frank Perry Segment: "A Christmas Memory" [2]
1971 The Beguiled Martha Farnsworth Don Siegel [5]
1971 J. W. Coop Mama Cliff Robertson [5]
1972 Pete 'n' Tillie Gertrude Wilson Martin Ritt [5]
1973 Happy as the Grass Was Green Anna Witmer Charles Davis [2]
1975 The Day of the Locust Big Sister John Schlesinger [2]
1977 Nasty Habits Sister Walburga Michael Lindsay-Hogg [2]
1977 The Rescuers Madame Medusa Wolfgang Reitherman
John Lounsbery
Art Stevens 		Voice [2]
1978 Interiors Eve Woody Allen [2]
1981 Harry's War 'Aunt' Beverly Payne Kieth Merrill [2]
1981 Honky Tonk Freeway Sister Mary Clarise John Schlesinger [2]
1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can Jean Scott Martin Jack Hofsiss [2]
1984 The Pope of Greenwich Village Mrs. Ritter Stuart Rosenberg [6]
1985 The Bride Mrs. Baumann Franc Roddam [2]
1985 Walls of Glass Mama Scott D. Goldstein [2]
1985 White Nights Anne Wyatt Taylor Hackford [2]
1985 The Trip to Bountiful Mrs. Watts Peter Masterson [2]
1986 My Little Girl Molly Connie Kaiserman [2]
1986 Native Son Peggy Jerrold Freeman [2]
1987 Riders to the Sea Maurya Ronan O'Leary (final film role) [7]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1952 Lux Video Theatre Neighbor Episode: "The Lesson"
1952 Studio One Episode: "The Shadowy Third"
1952 Robert Montgomery Presents Episode: "The Fall Guy"
1954 The Philco Television Playhouse Episode: "Miss Look-Alike"
1955 Omnibus Governess Episode: "The Turn of the Screw"
1955 Windows The Woman Alcoholic Episode: "A Domestic Dilemma"
1955 Matinee Theatre Miss Myrtle Episode: "An Apple for Miss Myrtle"
1955 The United States Steel Hour Marian Episode: "Shoot It Again"
1957 The United States Steel Hour Estelle Episode: "The Hill Wife"
1957 Kraft Television Theatre Episode: "Fire and Ice"
1958 General Electric Theater Heddie Episode: "No Hiding Place"
1958 Playhouse 90 Florry / Addie
Episode: "Portrait of a Murderer"
Episode: "The Old Man"
1959 NBC Sunday Showcase Virginia Reed Episode: "People Kill People Sometimes"
1966 Barefoot in Athens Xantippe Television film
1966 The Long, Hot Summer Maribelle Kirkpatrick Episode: "Evil Angel"
1966 ABC Stage 67 Woman Episode: "A Christmas Memory"
1967 The Thanksgiving Visitor Miss Sook Television film
1969 NBC Children's Theatre Narrator Episode: "Little Women"
1971 The Name of the Game Sister Lucia Episode: "A Sister from Napoli"
1971 Montserrat Felisa Television film
1972 Look Homeward, Angel Eliza Grant Television film
1972 Medical Center Ellen Davis Episode: "Betrayed"
1972 Ghost Story Hattie Episode: "Touch of Madness"
1972 Night Gallery Frances Turchin
Mrs. Evans 		Segment: "Stop Killing Me"
Segment: "The Sins of the Fathers"
1972 Two by Chekhov Part of Hollywood Television Theatre
1973 Night Gallery Molly Wheatland Episode: "Something in the Woodwork"
1973 The Snoop Sisters Olivia Cunningham Episode: "Corpse and Robbers"
1974 Live Again, Die Again Mrs. O'Neill Television film
1976 Kojak Edna Morrison Episode: "A Shield for Murder - Part 1"
Episode: "A Shield for Murder - Part 2"
1977 Hawaii Five-O Philomena Underwood Episode: "The Descent of the Torches"
1977 Something for Joey Ann Cappelletti Television film
1982 The Blue and the Gray Mrs. Lovelace Television miniseries (3 episodes)
1983 Loving Amelia Whitley Episode: "Pilot"
1984 The Parade Sarah Television film
1984 The Dollmaker Mrs. Kendrick Television film
1985 The Hitchhiker Lynette 'Mama' Powers Episode: "W.G.O.D"
1986 American Playhouse Sally Phelps Episode: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part I"
1986 Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story Itta Halaunbrenner Television film

Stage roles

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Year(s) Title Role Venue(s) No. of
performances 		Notes Ref.
1945 Seven Mirrors Blackfriars Repertory Theatre (New York City) 23 [8]
1952 Yerma Circle in the Square Theatre — [9]
1952 Summer and Smoke Alma Winemiller Circle in the Square Theatre — [10]
1953 Mid-Summer Lily Vanderbilt Theatre 109 Broadway [11]
1954 The Immoralist Marcelline Royale Theatre 96 Broadway [11]
1954 The Rainmaker Liz Curry Cort Theatre 125 Broadway [11]
1956 The Innkeepers Amy McGregor John Golden Theatre 4 Broadway [11]
1957 Separate Tables Mrs. Shankland Music Box Theatre 332 Broadway (replacement) [11]
1959–60 Sweet Bird of Youth Princess Kosmonopolis Martin Beck Theatre 375 Broadway [11]
1963 Strange Interlude Nina Leeds Hudson Theatre; Martin Beck Theatre 97 Broadway [11]
1964 The Three Sisters Olga / Masha[i] Morosco Theatre 119 Broadway [11]
1964 P.S. I Love You Julie Cunningham Henry Miller's Theatre 12 Broadway [11]
1966 The Great Indoors Oriane Brice Eugene O'Neill Theatre 7 Broadway [11]
1967 Black Comedy / White Lies Clea / Baroness Lemberg Ethel Barrymore Theatre 337 Broadway [11]
1968 The Little Foxes Regina Giddens Hanna Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio) et al. — Touring production [12]
1969 Angela Angela Palmer Music Box Theatre 4 Broadway [11]
1973 Look Away Mary Todd Lincoln Playhouse Theatre 1 Broadway [11]
1974 Absurd Person Singular Marion Music Box Theatre 591 Broadway [11]
1976 A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois Academy Festival Theatre (Lake Forest, Illinois) — [13]
1977 Creditors / The Stronger Tekla / Mlle. Y Joseph Papp Public Theatre — Off-Broadway [14]
1978 The Little Foxes Regina Giddens Academy Festival Theatre (Lake Forest, Illinois) — [15]
1979 Slightly Delayed The Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts)
Westport Playhouse (Westport, Connecticut)		 — [16]
1980 Clothes for a Summer Hotel Zelda Fitzgerald Cort Theatre 15 Broadway [11]
1980 Mixed Couples Elberta Brooks Atkinson Theatre 9 Broadway [11]
1982 Agnes of God Mother Miriam Ruth Music Box Theatre 599 Broadway [11]
1983 Inheritors Isabel Fejevary The Real Stage (New York City) — [17]
1983 Paradise Lost Clara Gordon The Mirror Theatre — [18]
1984 Rain Mrs. Horn Theatre at St. Peter's Church — [19]
1984 Agnes of God Mother Miriam Rush The Cape Playhouse (Dennis, Massachusetts) — [20]
1985 The Madwoman of Chaillot Countess Aurelia Theatre at St. Peter's Church — Off-Broadway [14]
1985 Clarence Mrs. Wheeler Theatre at St. Peter's Church — Off-Broadway [21]
1985 Vivat! Vivat Regina! Elizabeth I Theatre at St. Peter's Church — Off-Broadway [14]
1985 A Lie of the Mind Lorraine Promenade Theatre — Off-Broadway [14]
1986 The Circle Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney Theatre at St. Peter's Church; Citicorp Center — Off-Broadway [14]
1987 Blithe Spirit Madame Arcati Neil Simon Theatre — Broadway; final role [11]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Page was originally cast as Olga, and would later serve as a replacement for the role of Masha.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Versatile Actress Geraldine Page Proud to Be Native of Kirksville". The Kirksville Daily Express. April 3, 1960. p. 3B.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Geraldine Page Filmography". American Film Institute Catalog. Los Angeles. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Liebman 2017, p. 186.
  4. ^ Christensen, Foley & Kremer 1999, p. 590.
  5. ^ a b c Liebman 2017, p. 187.
  6. ^ Thise 2008, p. 118.
  7. ^ "Geraldine Page". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on July 7, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  8. ^ Nathan 1974, p. 142.
  9. ^ "'Yerma,' Lorca Poetic Tragedy, Offered by Loft Players in the Circle Theatre". The New York Times. February 8, 1952. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  10. ^ Banham 1995, p. 1144.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Geraldine Page Theatre Credits". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  12. ^ "Straw Hat Circuit Foxes Thrill for Geraldine Page". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. July 24, 1968. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Winship, Frederick M. (February 14, 1986). "Geraldine Page's eighth Oscar try". UPI. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  14. ^ a b c d e "Geraldine Page Theatre Credits". Broadway World. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  15. ^ Carroll 2013, p. 60.
  16. ^ Leclaire, Anne D. (June 24, 1979). "It's Frantic Time on the Straw Hat Circuit". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  17. ^ Mitgang, Herbert (December 14, 1983). "Theater - 'Inheritors' with Geraldine Page". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  18. ^ Mitgang, Herbert (December 20, 1983). "Stage - 'Paradise Lost' by Clifford Odets Revived". The New York Times. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  19. ^ Gussow, Mel (March 11, 1984). "Theater - Mirror Rep, in a Revival of 'Rain'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  20. ^ Klein, Alvin (June 24, 1984). "Entertainment, Summer Style: Playhouse's Success is Annual". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
  21. ^ Gussow, Mel (February 14, 1985). "The Stage: Booth Tarkington's 'Clarence'". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2018.

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