Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. She earned acclaim for her work on Broadway as well as in major Hollywood films and television productions. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979 for her stage work in Agnes of God and The Pope of Greenwich Village.
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Geraldine Sue Page was an American actress. She earned acclaim for her work on Broadway as well as in major Hollywood films and television productions. She died in New York City in 1987 in the midst of a Broadway run of Blithe Spirit, for which she earned her fourth Tony Award nomination. Page was born November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri, the second child of Edna Pearl and Leon Elwin Page who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945, Page studied acting at the Herbert Berghof School and the American Theatre Wing. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979 for her stage work in Agnes of God and The Pope of Greenwich Village. She also won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award, and four nominations for the Tony Award. Her official film debut and role in Hondo, opposite John Wayne, garnering her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, was uncredited. Prior to her death, she appeared in an uncredited role in Taxi Speaking to a Taxi Driver, in which she said: “Actually, I had one small but satisfactory scene in that movie.” She also appeared in Summer and Smoke, written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Alma Quintero, in the role of Alma in the summer of 1952. She had a role in The Beguiled, opposite Clint Eastwood, which earned her her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
She did not work in film for eight years because of McCarthyism and was blacklisted in Hollywood based on her association with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg. Her last film role was in The Rescuers, in 1977, where she provided the voice of Madam Medusa in Walt Disney’s Therescuers. She appeared in several television series, including The Facts of Life, The Facts Of Life, and The West Wing, which she co-starred in with Robert De Niro. She won a Tony Award for her performance in the stage production of Absurd Person Singular and reprised her role in Sweet Bird of Youth in the 1962 film adaptation of the same play. Her final film role came in the thriller What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? opposite Ruth Gordon, and the film was released in 1979. She later appeared in the television series The Godfather: Part II, which was based on the novel by Robert Sean O’Brien, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actress. In the 1990s, Page appeared in a series of television shows, including the critically acclaimed The Godparents and The Godmother: Part III, which won her a second Tony Award and a Primetime Emmys Award. She retired from acting in the late 1980s after appearing in the TV series The Lord of the Rings: Through the Back Door of Heaven and the Godfather, and appeared in numerous other television shows.
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