Geraldine Page : Oscar Winning Actress

 Overview

Born : November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri, USA

Died : June 13, 1987 in New York City, New York, USA  (heart attack)

Birth Name :  Geraldine Sue Page

Nicknames : Gerry ,  First Lady of the American Theater

Height : 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Considered by quite a few people to be one of the best American entertainers ever, Geraldine Page was an expert craftswoman who appeared to draw out the most internal detail of the person she was playing. Her devotion to her specialty has gotten her the appreciation of a large number of the present extraordinary entertainers including Meryl Streep and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Geraldine Sue Page was brought into the world on November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri to Dr. Leon Elwin Page, an osteopathic doctor and Pearl Maize Page, a homemaker. She had a more established sibling named Donald. The family moved to Chicago when Page was five years of age. Growing up, her inclinations and leisure activities forever were coordinated toward artistic expression. She had a go at composing and painting while more youthful, however that ended up being excessively baffling. She needed to be a professional piano player, however her family couldn't manage the cost of all that preparation. While she was as yet a youngster, she joined the show club at her congregation and before long tracked down her energy. She started perusing a wide range of plays as well as finding out about entertainers. She was captivated with the professions of entertainers like Lucille La Verne, Maude Adams, and Eva Le Gallienne.

Upon graduation from secondary school in 1942, she entered the Goodman Theater School, where she acted in pretty much everything in which understudies could perform, as well as bringing in cash working for a youngsters' auditorium bunch. Whenever she finished the three-year program in 1945, she and a few different understudies coordinated a late spring stock venue in Lake Zurich, Illinois. After the mid year season, she set out toward New York City. Sadly, by Christmas she was working three low maintenance occupations just to scrape by and not tracking down any work as an entertainer. She got back to Chicago that colder time of year and acknowledged a situation as low maintenance teacher in the theater office at DePaul University for the spring semester. After one more summer at Lake Zurich, Miss Page set out toward New York once more, this time joining a stock organization in Woodstock, New York. She spent the following two summers in Lake Zurich, and the remainder of the time acting in Woodstock playing everything from little youngsters to grandmas.

In 1948, she made her New York City debut with an Off-Broadway creation of "Seven Mirrors." She went through the following four years performing with Off-Broadway gatherings and summer stock in New Jersey. She additionally performed character parts on public broadcasts. In 1952, she had the lead in an Off-Broadway restoration of Tennessee Williams' "Mid year and Smoke." That creation created an uproar, with pundits as well as with a developing crowd denoting the primary success Off-Broadway. Page won the Drama Critics Award, turning into the principal individual from a non-Broadway creation to get such an honor.

Page put off various film offers and on second thought assumed driving parts on radio and TV, and made her Broadway debut in January 1953 in Vina Delmar's play "Mid-Summer." Although the play was excused by most pundits, she was hailed by pundits for her depiction of a uninformed lady wedded to a teacher.

In the fall of 1953, she made her film debut inverse John Wayne in the western Hondo (1953). Despite the fact that she got an Academy Award selection as Best Supporting Actress, she wasn't offered any great parts in Hollywood and got back to New York.

During the 1950s, Page's auditorium vocation thrived. She played an assortment of jobs on Broadway remembering a malicious spouse of a gay for "The Immoralist," to a desolate old maid in "The Rainmaker." She additionally showed up and sharpened her art at the Actors Studio. It was in the fall of 1959 that Page featured inverse Paul Newman in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth." Her job as a regrettable blurring celebrity acquired widespread applause, her first Tony Award designation, and interest again from Hollywood. It was additionally when she met and wedded one of her co-stars, entertainer Rip Torn.

In 1961 she featured in the film form of Summer and Smoke (1961) and in 1962 in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). She acquired sequential Golden Globe grants as well as Academy Award selections for these two exhibitions.

From now into the foreseeable future, Page split her time between the stage and the screen. Her selectivity was high, whatever the medium. She turned down numerous well known jobs, remembering the job of Martha for the first Broadway creation of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and the job of Chris MacNeil in the film "The Exorcist." She was above all else a person entertainer who had faith in repertory. She would in general acknowledge parts that were totally different from the one she had recently played and regularly preferred to pivot between driving jobs and supporting jobs.

Regardless of the way that she was a profoundly regarded stage entertainer, not very many of her Broadway creations later "Sweet Bird of Youth" were hits, and frequently shut after only a couple of exhibitions. The couple of creations that were hits included restorations of "Weird Interlude" and "The Three Sisters." Most of her better stage work through the remainder of her life came in creations Off-Broadway, or in provincial performance centers the nation over. She loved visiting the United States and performing theater in states and urban areas frequently disregarded by Broadway travel agencies. During the 1960s, a portion of her outstanding film work included "The Happiest Millionaire," "What Ever Befallen Aunt Alice" and "You're a Big Boy Now." She acquired a Best Supporting Actress designation for the last option. She additionally won two Emmy Awards for TV work.During the 1970s one of her couple of hits on Broadway was as a broker's alcoholic spouse in "Ludicrous Person Singular." This job got her a second Tony Award assignment. One of her greater victories on the stage was the Sanctuary Theater Company which she and her better half Rip Torn established off-Broadway. In spite of the fact that it just kept going several years, it allowed youthful entertainers an opportunity to work, and a large number of the creations were given rave audits by pundits. A portion of her more important film jobs during the 1970s remembered an intrusive intermediary for Pete 'n' Tillie (1972) (Oscar selection as Best Supporting Actress), a disputable strict forerunner in The Day of the Locust (1975), the voice of the miscreant Madame Medusa in The Rescuers (1977) and the self-destructive mother in Interiors (1978) (Oscar assignment as Best Actress).

During the 1980s, she started showing acting at the Pelican Theater School. In 1982 she had one more victory on Broadway as Mother Superior in "Agnes of God," a job which acquired her a third Tony Award selection. In 1983 she helped to establish the Mirror Repertory Company, an Off-Broadway theater bunch devoted to saving the specialty of repertory theater. She performed and coordinated in an assortment of creations with the gathering. She kept on working in films regardless of her furious auditorium plan. One of her film jobs in 1984 was a scene taking piece part as a chain-smoking mother of a killed cop in The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). She got an Oscar designation as Best Supporting Actress. With that she turned into the principal lady to get seven Oscar selections for acting without a solitary success. In 1985, she featured in the free film The Trip to Bountiful (1985). In view of Horton Foote's play, it recounts the narrative of a 60-year-elderly person who longs to flee from her confined city loft that she imparts to her child and little girl in-regulation, to see the old country town where she grew up. Page's presentation was hailed by pundits and she started to pile up various honor selections. She was named for a Best Actress Oscar, making it her eighth pursue the brilliant kid. Despite the fact that Meryl Streep resembled a definite bet for Out of Africa (1985), numerous pundits anticipated Page would arise as the surprisingly strong contender champ. Whenever F. Murray Abraham opened the envelope on Oscar night he reported "Ah! I think about this lady the best entertainer in the English language. The victor is Geraldine Page in 'The Trip to Bountiful!'" As Page mixed to observe her shoes which she had kicked under her seat, Meryl Streep drove the long overwhelming applause for her.

During the 1980s she got various different distinctions. She got a few lifetime accomplishment grants from different performance center gatherings. In 1983, she was drafted into the Theater Hall of Fame. The main thing that appeared to be missing was a Tony Award. In the spring of 1987, Page enjoyed some time off from the Mirror Theater, to get back to Broadway in a recovery of "Carefree Spirit." For her driving exhibition as the odd medium, she was designated for her fourth Tony Award. Numerous pundits anticipated her to be the wistful top pick for the honor. She didn't win. Six days after the Tony Awards service, she passed on from a cardiovascular failure, departing behind her significant other and their three youngsters. She was 62 years of age. A commemoration administration was held at a Broadway theater and various entertainers and superstars offered their appreciation including Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, and Paul Newman among others. Ronald and Nancy Reagan had roses sent from the White House to the dedication administration.

Page devoted her life to her art and is viewed as one of the main entertainers of the twentieth century. She showed up in 28 movies, 16 Broadway plays, critical TV plays and radio plays, and endless repertory, stock, territorial and Off-Broadway exhibitions. As People magazine noted: "Geraldine Page wasn't settling for the status quo at the hour of her passing; she was on a job. After an exhibition, she asked, 'I wasn't exaggerated, was I?' Then she added happily, 'Wasn't I stunning?' As ever, she was."

Brought forth her first kid at age 39, a girl Angelica Page on February 17, 1964. Kid's dad was her second spouse, Rip Torn.

Was featuring in "Joyful Spirit" on Broadway at the hour of her passing.

Shown acting at the Actors Studio and Pelican Theater in New York, as well as the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles

Brought forth her second and third youngsters at age 40, twin children John Torn and Tony Torn on June 1, 1965. Kid's dad was her second spouse, Rip Torn.

Was named multiple times for Broadway's Tony Award: as Best Actress (Dramatic) in 1960, for "Sweet Bird of Youth," a job she reproduced in an Oscar-designated execution in the film rendition, Sweet Bird of Youth (1962); as Best Actress (Play), in 1982, for "Agnes of God;" and in 1987, for "Carefree Spirit," and as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic), in 1975, for "Ridiculous Person Singular" - - yet always lost.

In 1983, she helped to establish the Mirror Repertory Company, an Off-Broadway theater organization committed to protecting the craft of repertory. She stayed an Artist in Residence with the gathering until her passing.

In 1985, she turned into the principal lady to get seven Oscar selections for acting without winning. The next year, she accepted her eighth assignment lastly won. Starting at 2018, her eight assignments expected for her first success is as yet the record among entertainers.

She got an overwhelming applause when she won her Oscar.

In 1960, she was assigned for a Tony Award as Best Actress for her job in "Sweet Bird of Youth." She lost to Anne Bancroft for "The Miracle Worker." In 1962, she got an Oscar designation for Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) however lost to Bancroft for the film form of The Miracle Worker (1962). In 1982 she started the job of Mother Superior in "Agnes of God" however was disregarded Agnes of God (1985) that went to Bancroft. Bancroft was selected for an Oscar however lost to Page.

Her significant other Rip Torn is the cousin of Sissy Spacek.

Life story in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 677-679. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

At the hour of her demise she had been sick with kidney infection and hypertension.

Was offered the job of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), however she turned it down. Louise Fletcher, who proceeded to win the Best Actress Oscar for her exhibition, was projected all things being equal.

While introducing Page's Best Actress Oscar for The Trip to Bountiful (1985), F. Murray Abraham pronounced her "the best entertainer in the English language" and bowed when she arrived at the platform.

She concentrated on show at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

Was multi month pregnant with her little girl Angelica Page when she finished her run of the Broadway play "Peculiar Interlude".

Gotten back to work 4 months subsequent to bringing forth her girl Angelica Page to start acting in the Broadway restoration of "The Three Sisters".

Was the 92nd entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Trip to Bountiful (1985) at The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986) on March 24, 1986.

Is depicted by Sarah Paulson in Feud: Bette and Joan (2017).

Was brought into the world on her dad's 30th birthday celebration.

Girl of Leon Elwin (1894-1968) and Pearl (née Maize) Page (1894-1953).

Of the relative multitude of entertainers and entertainers named for somewhere around six acting Oscars, she is the one in particular who has never showed up in a Best Picture designated film.

Of the multitude of entertainers and entertainer with something like eight acting Oscar designations, she is the one in particular who doesn't have more lead acting than supporting acting assignments, with four of each.

Father: Leon Elwin Page; Mother: Edna Pearl Maize.

She was a deep rooted Democrat.

Maternal granddaughter of Pinkney (1850-1922) and Susan (nee Grindel) Maize (1847-1925). Both were brought up in the province of Missouri.

She was sensitive to the sun which implied that she could stand openness to it for a couple of moments all at once which made shooting Hondo in temperatures of 126 degrees in the Mexico desert troublesome.

List of Geraldine Page Movies

• Riders to the Sea
•  Native Son
•  Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story (TV Movie)
•  My Little Girl
•  American Playhouse (TV Series)
•  The Trip to Bountiful
•  White Nights
•  Walls of Glass
•  The Bride
•  The Pope of Greenwich Village
•  The Dollmaker (TV Movie)
•  The Parade (TV Movie)
•  Loving (TV Series)
•  I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
•  Honky Tonk Freeway
•  Harry's War
•  Interiors
•  Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)
•  The Rescuers
•  Something for Joey (TV Movie)
•  Nasty Habits
•  Kojak (TV Series)
•  The Day of the Locust
•  Live Again, Die Again (TV Movie)
•  Happy as the Grass Was Green
•  The Snoop Sisters (TV Series)
•  Pete 'n' Tillie
•  Circle of Fear (TV Series)
•  Look Homeward, Angel (TV Movie)
•  Hollywood Television Theater: Two by Chekhov (TV Movie)
•  J W Coop
•  Montserrat (TV Movie)
•  The Beguiled
•  The Name of the Game (TV Series)
•  Trilogy
•  What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
•  The Thanksgiving Visitor (TV Movie)
•  The Happiest Millionaire
•  Monday's Child
•  The Three Sisters
•  You're a Big Boy Now
•  Barefoot in Athens (TV Movie)
•  The Long, Hot Summer (TV Series)
•  Dear Heart
•  Toys in the Attic
•  Sweet Bird of Youth
•  Summer and Smoke
•  Kraft Theatre (TV Series)
•  Matinee Theatre (TV Series)
•  Windows (TV Series)
•  Omnibus (TV Series)
•  The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series)
•  Hondo
•  Taxi
•  Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
•  Little Women (TV Series)
•  Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)  & Many more....