Geraldine Page

Geraldine Page (November 22, 1924 - June 13, 1987) was an American actress.

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November 22 - 1924 - June 13 - 1987 - American

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She was born Geraldine Sue Page in Kirksville, Missouri. She attended the Goodman Theatre Dramatic School and studied acting with Uta Hagen. She began appearing in stock at the age of seventeen. She earned critical accolades for her performances in several Tennessee Williams plays like Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth.

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Kirksville, Missouri - Uta Hagen - Tennessee Williams - Summer and Smoke - Sweet Bird of Youth

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She was active in film as well as Broadway. Her film debut was in Out of the Night (1947). Her role in Hondo, garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In all, despite her relatively small filmography, Page received eight Academy Award nominations. She won for her final nomination for The Trip to Bountiful (1985). She also voiced the hilariously evil "Madame Medusa" in the Disney animated film The Rescuers.

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Broadway - Hondo - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Academy Award - The Trip to Bountiful - The Rescuers

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Page has also appeared in television productions and won Emmy Awards for two Truman Capote stories, A Christmas Memory (1967) and The Thanksgiving Visitor (1969).

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Television - Emmy Awards - Truman Capote

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She was married to violinist Alexander Schneider from 1954 to 1957. Later she married 7 years younger Texan actor, Rip Torn, in 1963 and they remained married until her death, despite the fact that shortly before her death he had been publicly exposed for conducting an extramarital affair with a much younger actress (Amy Wright, born in 1950), whom he had impregnated.

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Rip Torn - 1963

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Page and Torn had three children, a daughter (actress Angelica Torn) and twin sons.

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Page died of a heart attack in 1987 while appearing in Sir Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on Broadway (along with Judith Ivey and Blythe Danner) at the relatively young age of 62.

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Heart attack - Noel Coward - Blithe Spirit - Judith Ivey - Blythe Danner

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