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{{short description|American actress (1924–1987)}}
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|name          = Geraldine Page
|image         = Geraldine Page 1956 press photo.jpg
|caption       = Page in 1956
|birth_name    = Geraldine Sue Page
|birth_date    = {{birth date|1924|11|22}}
|birth_place   = [[Kirksville, Missouri]], U.S.
|death_date    = {{death date and age|1987|06|13|1924|11|22}}
|death_place   = New York City, U.S. 
|education     = [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] ([[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]])
| occupation = Actress
|years_active  = 1945–1987
|spouse        = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Alexander Schneider]]|1954|1957|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Rip Torn]]|1963}}
}}
|children      = 3, including [[Angelica Page]]
}}

'''Geraldine Sue Page''' (November 22, 1924{{spaced en dash}}June 13, 1987) was an American actress. With a career which spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of [[List of awards and nominations received by Geraldine Page|numerous accolades]], including an [[Academy Award]], a [[British Academy Film Award]], two [[Primetime Emmy Award]]s, and two [[Golden Globe Awards]], as well as nominations for four [[Tony Awards]].

A native of [[Kirksville, Missouri]], Page studied at the [[The Theatre School at DePaul University|Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago]] and with [[Uta Hagen]] and [[Lee Strasberg]] in New York City. During the [[McCarthyism]] era, she was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]] in Hollywood based on her association with Hagen and did not work in film for eight years. Page won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her role in ''[[The Trip to Bountiful]]'' (1985). She was Oscar-nominated for her work in ''[[Hondo (film)|Hondo]]'' (1953), ''[[Summer and Smoke (film)|Summer and Smoke]]'' (1961), ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth (1962 film)|Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' (1962), ''[[You're a Big Boy Now]]'' (1966), ''[[Pete 'n' Tillie]]'' (1972), ''[[Interiors]]'' (1978), and ''[[The Pope of Greenwich Village]]'' (1984). She is also known for her film roles ''[[What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?]]'' (1969), ''[[The Beguiled (1971 film)|The Beguiled]]'' (1971) and ''[[The Rescuers]]'' (1977). 

On stage, she made her [[Broadway (theatre)|Broadway]] debut in the 1953 play ''Mid-summer''. She went on to received [[Tony Award]] nominations for her performances as Princess Kosmonopolis in ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' (1959), Marion in ''[[Absurd Person Singular]]'' (1974), Mother Miriam Ruth in ''[[Agnes of God]]'' (1982), and Madame Arcati in ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' (1987). For her prolific work onstage she was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]] in 1979. For her roles in television she received two [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama for her acting in the adaptations of [[Truman Capote]]'s ''[[A Christmas Memory]]'' (1967) and ''[[The Thanksgiving Visitor]]'' (1969).

== Early life and education ==
Page was born November 22, 1924, in [[Kirksville, Missouri]], the first child of Edna Pearl (née Maize) and Leon Elwin Page{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}} who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery (combined with the American School of Osteopathy, eventually to form [[A.T. Still University]]). He was an author whose works included ''Practical Anatomy'' (1925), ''Osteopathic Fundamentals'' (1926), and ''The Old Doctor'' (1932).{{sfn|Walter|1992|p=117}} She had one younger brother, Donald.<ref name=nyt/>

At age five, Page relocated with her family to [[Chicago]].{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}} Raised a [[Methodism|Methodist]] by her mother, Page was an active parishioner of the Englewood Methodist Church in Chicago, where she had her first foray into acting within the church's theatre group, appearing in a play called Excuse My Dust, then playing Jo March in a 1941 production of [[Louisa May Alcott]]'s ''[[Little Women]]''.{{sfn|Carroll|2013|p=59}} After graduating from Chicago's [[Englewood Technical Prep Academy]], she attended the [[The Theatre School at DePaul University|Goodman School of Drama]] at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] (now at [[DePaul University]]), with the intention of becoming an actress. 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. <ref name=britannica>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|title=Geraldine Page|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Geraldine-Page|access-date=March 6, 2018}}</ref>

After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945,<ref name=tulsa>{{cite news| newspaper=[[Tulsa World]]| url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/whatever-happened-to-geraldine-page/article_a641e22e-fe40-55eb-8751-a5e269bf2c94.html| title=Whatever happened to Geraldine Page?| date=March 1, 1992| author=Peterson, Bettelou| access-date=March 7, 2018}}</ref> Page studied acting at the Herbert Berghof School and the [[American Theatre Wing]] in New York City,<ref name=britannica/> studying with [[Uta Hagen]] for seven years,{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}}{{sfn|Schechner|1964|p=14}} and then at the [[Actors Studio]] with [[Lee Strasberg]].{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}}<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/lee-strasberg-the-legacy-continues.html| date=November 21, 2009| access-date=July 9, 2017| title=Lee Strasberg: The acting legacy lives on| author=McNulty, Charles}}</ref> During this time, Page would return to Chicago in the summers to perform in [[repertory theatre]] in [[Lake Zurich, Illinois]], where she and several fellow actors had established their own independent theater company.<ref name=britannica/> She also spent two critically successful years performing with a winter stock company called the Woodstock Players, another group from Goodman, who performed mostly at the [[Woodstock Opera House]] where she was singled out by critic [[Claudia Cassidy]] of [[The Chicago Tribune]] as destined to be a star to bear watching. During that time she was called "the lady with the thousand faces" for her ability to change her looks and actions to an extent that her most devoted fans were unable to recognize her.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dixon Theatre Goers to See Geraldine Page |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixon-telegraph-geraldine-page/128593683/ |access-date=July 21, 2023 |work=The Dixon Telegraph |date=November 6, 1948 |page=3|via = [[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref> While attempting to establish her career, she worked various odd jobs, including as a hat-check girl, theater usher, lingerie model, and a factory laborer.{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}}

==Career==
=== 1945–1969: Early stage and film===
Page, a trained [[method acting|method actor]], spent five years appearing in various repertory theater productions in the Midwest and New York after graduating from college.{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}} On October 25, 1945, she made her New York stage debut in ''Seven Mirrors'', a play devised by [[Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles)|Immaculate Heart High School]] students from [[Los Angeles]].{{sfn|Banham|1995|p=833}}{{sfn|Nathan|1974|p=142}} The play ran for a total of 23 performances at Blackfriars Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's [[Upper East Side]].{{sfn|Nathan|1974|p=142}} In February 1952, director [[José Quintero]] cast Page in a minor role in ''Yerma'', a theatrical interpretation of a poem by [[Federico García Lorca]], staged at [[Circle in the Square Theatre]] in New York City's [[Greenwich Village]].<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/09/12/specials/lorca-circle.html| date=February 8, 1952| access-date=March 6, 2018| title='Yerma,' Lorca Poetic Tragedy, Offered by Loft Players in the Circle Theatre}}</ref> Page was subsequently cast in the role of Alma in the Quintero-directed production of ''[[Summer and Smoke]]'', written by [[Tennessee Williams]] (also staged at the Circle Theatre in 1952). Page's role in ''Summer and Smoke'' garnered her significant exposure, including a [[Drama Desk Award]],<ref name=tulsa/> and a profile in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]| title=Edge of Greatness| page=107| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flYEAAAAMBAJ&q=geraldine+page&pg=PA107| via=Google Books| date=September 8, 1952}}</ref>

[[File:Geraldine Page in Hondo.png|thumb|right|upright=1|Page in ''[[Hondo (film)|Hondo]]'' (1953)]]
Her official film debut and role in ''[[Hondo (film)|Hondo]]'', opposite [[John Wayne]], garnered her a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]. Prior to this, she appeared in an uncredited role in ''[[Taxi (1953 film)|Taxi]]''. Speaking to a Kirksville newspaper, she said: "Actually ''Hondo'' wasn't my first movie. I had one small, but satisfactory scene in a Dan Dailey picture called ''Taxi'', which was filmed in New York."<ref>{{cite news| title=Versatile Actress Geraldine Page Proud to Be Native of Kirksville| newspaper=[[Kirksville Daily Express]]| date=April 3, 1960| page=3B}}</ref> Page was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted in Hollywood]] after her debut in ''Hondo'' based on her association with Uta Hagen and did not work in film for nearly ten years.{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}} Her work continued on Broadway playing a spinster in the 1954{{en dash}}1955 production of ''[[The Rainmaker (play)|The Rainmaker]]'', written by [[N. Richard Nash]]; and as the frustrated wife whose husband becomes romantically obsessed with a young Arab, played by [[James Dean]], in the 1954 production of ''[[The Immoralist (play)|The Immoralist]]'', written by Augustus Goetz and [[Ruth Goetz]] and based on the [[The Immoralist|novel of the same name]] (1902) by [[André Gide]].{{sfn|Krauss|2014|p=179}} Page remained friends with Dean until his death the following year and kept a number of personal mementos from the play—including several drawings by him. After Page's death, these items were acquired by [[Heritage Auctions]] in 2006.<ref name=heritage>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OULdq5clMEC&q=geraldine+page+the+immoralist&pg=PA380 |title=Heritage Music and Entertainment Dallas Signature Auction Catalog #634 |author=Ivy Press |publisher=Heritage Capital |year=2006 |page=380 |isbn=978-1-599-67081-2}}</ref> In 2015 [[Angelica Page]] revealed that her mother had an affair with Dean during the production of ''[[The Immoralist (play)|The Immoralist]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title= The Woman Who Made James Dean a Star |url=https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8233948/amp |website=[[HuffPost]] |date=October 2, 2015 |language=en}}</ref> She stated, "According to my mother, their affair went on for three-and-a-half months. In many ways my mother never really got over Jimmy. It was not unusual for me to go to her dressing room through the years, obviously many years after Dean was gone, and find pictures of him taped up on her mirror. My mother never forgot about Jimmy -- never. I believe they were artistic soul mates."<ref>{{cite web |title=The Woman Who Made James Dean a Star |url=https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8233948/amp |website=HuffPost |date=October 2, 2015 |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:George C. Scott - Geraldine Page - 1959.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1|Page opposite [[George C. Scott]] in a 1959 ''[[NBC Sunday Showcase]]'' episode]]

Prior to [[Hondo (film)|''Hondo'']], in 1952, she appeared in a revival of ''[[Summer and Smoke]]'' in 1952 putting herself, the play, and director [[José Quintero|Jose Quintero]] at the beginning of the Off-Broadway scene. Page played the same role of Alma Winemiller in a 1953 radio version (opposite [[Richard Kiley]]) and a [[Summer and Smoke (film)|film version in 1961]] opposite [[Laurence Harvey]]. Both she and [[Una Merkel]] earned acting nominations for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] respectively in the [[34th Academy Awards]] in 1961. The awards, however, went to [[Sophia Loren]] for ''[[Two Women]]'' and [[Rita Moreno]] for [[West Side Story (1961 film)|''West Side Story'']].

In 1959, Page earned an [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] nomination, of Best Single Performance by an Actress, for her role in the ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' episode "The Old Man", written by [[William Faulkner]].<ref>{{cite web| website=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences| url=http://www.emmys.com/news/interviews-project-news/50-years-ago-today-playhouse-90-presented-old-man| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307151054/http://www.emmys.com/news/interviews-project-news/50-years-ago-today-playhouse-90-presented-old-man| title=50 Years Ago Today "Playhouse 90" Presented "Old Man"| archive-date=March 7, 2018| date=November 20, 2008| access-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref> She subsequently earned critical accolades for her performance in the 1959–1960 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' opposite [[Paul Newman]], in which she originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a young hustler named Chance Wayne (played by Newman). For her performance, Page received her first nomination for the [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play]], as well as the [[Sarah Siddons Award]] for her performance in [[Chicago theatre|Chicago]].<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| title=Actress of the Year| date=November 6, 1960| page=105| url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/201634151/| via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She and Newman subsequently starred in the [[Sweet Bird of Youth (1962 film)|1962 film adaptation of the same name]] and Page earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film.{{sfn|Heintzelman|Howard|2014|p=365}}

Geraldine Page actually won consecutive Golden Globe Awards for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama]] in [[19th Golden Globe Awards|1961]] and [[20th Golden Globe Awards|1962]] for [[Summer and Smoke (film)|''Summer and Smoke'']] and [[Sweet Bird of Youth (1962 film)|''Sweet Bird of Youth'']], respectively.

In 1963, Page starred in ''[[Toys in the Attic (1963 film)|Toys in the Attic]]'', based on [[Lillian Hellman]]'s play of the same name, and garnered a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe]] nomination. She received another nomination the following year starring in Delbert Mann's ''[[Dear Heart]]'' as a self-sufficient but lonely postmistress visiting New York City for a convention, finding love with a greeting card salesman. In 1964, she starred in a Lee Strasberg-directed Broadway revival of [[Anton Chekhov]]'s ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' playing eldest sister Olga to [[Kim Stanley]]'s Masha with [[Barbara Baxley]] as the interloper Natasha.<ref name=tcred>{{cite web|work=Internet Broadway Database|title=Geraldine Page Theatre Credits|access-date=March 6, 2018|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/geraldine-page-68487}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Theater: A Tender 'Three Sisters'| author=Taubman, Howard| date=June 23, 1964| access-date=March 8, 2018| url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/01/specials/jarrell-sisters.html| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Both [[Shirley Knight]] and [[Sandy Dennis]] played the youngest sister Irina at different stages in this production.{{sfn|Porter|2006|p=141}}

[[File:Geraldine Page and Truman Capote 1966.png|thumb|right|upright|Page with [[Truman Capote]], 1966]]
Between 1966 and 1969, Page appeared in two holiday-themed television productions based on stories by [[Truman Capote]]: "The Christmas Memory" (for ''[[ABC Stage 67]]'') and the television film ''[[The Thanksgiving Visitor#Adaptation|The Thanksgiving Visitor]]'', both of which earned her two consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Actress.{{sfn|Pugh|2014|p=14}}<ref name=baker>{{cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-geraldine-page-19870614-20160612-snap-story.html| title=From the Archives: Geraldine Page, Winner of Oscar, 2 Emmys, Dies| first=Bob| last=Baker| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=June 14, 1987| access-date=August 31, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/geraldine-page/bio/151893 |title=Geraldine Page Biography |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |access-date=August 31, 2015}}</ref> In 1967, Page appeared again onstage in [[Peter Shaffer]]'s ''[[The White Liars (Play)|Black Comedy/White Lies]],'' a production which also included [[Michael Crawford]] and [[Lynn Redgrave]], who were making their Broadway debuts.{{sfn|Botto|Mitchell|2002|pages=285–6}} The same year, she appeared opposite [[Fred MacMurray]] in the [[Walt Disney]]-produced musical ''[[The Happiest Millionaire]]''.{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}} Bosley Crowther of ''The New York Times'' was critical of the film, noting: "Geraldine Page and [[Gladys Cooper]]...square off in one musical scene of socially up-staging each other that is drenched in perfumed vulgarity. But, then, the whole picture is vulgar. It is an over-decorated, over-fluffed, over-sentimentalized endeavor to pretend the lace-curtain millionaires are—or were—every bit as folksy as the old prize-fighters and the Irish brawlers in the saloon."<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| author=Crowther, Bosley| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9401E4DC1038E43BBC4953DFB467838C679EDE| title=Screen: Thin Blue Blood: Music Hall Is Offering 'Happiest Millionaire' 'An Uncommon Thief'| date=December 1, 1967| access-date=March 7, 2018| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Page starred opposite [[Ruth Gordon]] in the thriller ''[[What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?]]'' (1969), the third and final film in the [[Robert Aldrich]]-produced trilogy which followed ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' (1962) and ''[[Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte]]'' (1964). The film is based on the novel ''The Forbidden Garden'' by [[Ursula Curtiss]] and features Page as Claire Marrable, a recently widowed socialite, who, discovers that her husband has left her virtually nothing. The widow hires a number of unsuspecting housekeepers whom she murders one by one and robs them of their life savings in order to keep up her extravagant lifestyle.{{sfn|Silver|1995|p=318}} Writing for ''The New York Times'', [[Vincent Canby]] deemed the film "an amusingly baroque horror story told by a master misogynist," and praised Page's "affecting" performance.<ref name=canby>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| author=Canby, Vincent| date=July 24, 1969| access-date=March 4, 2018| url-access=subscription| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E04E0DD1739EF3BBC4C51DFB1668382679EDE| title=What Ever Happened...}}</ref>

===1970–1979: Mid-career work===
Page subsequently appeared in the [[Don Siegel]]-directed thriller ''[[The Beguiled (1971 film)|The Beguiled]]'' (1971) opposite [[Clint Eastwood]], playing the headmistress of a Southern girls' boarding school who takes in a wounded Union soldier.{{sfn|Sterritt|2014|pages=79–81}} Director Siegel called Page "certainly as fine an actor as I've ever worked with. I never have gotten along better with anyone than I did with her."{{sfn|Sterritt|2014|p=79}} This was followed by a supporting role in the comedy ''[[Pete 'n' Tillie]]'' (1972), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>{{cite book | title=Academy Awards Oscar Annual| page=1952| author=Osborne, Robert A.| year=1973| publisher=ESE California| location=Los Angeles| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6fwpAAAAYAAJ&q=geraldine+page+pete+tillie+academy+award}}</ref> She also appeared in three episodes of [[Rod Serling]]'s ''[[Night Gallery]]'' between 1972 and 1973.{{sfn|Muir|2001|p=627}} In January 1973, she returned to Broadway playing [[Mary Todd Lincoln]] opposite [[Maya Angelou]] in the two-character play ''Look Away'', written by [[Jerome Kilty]].<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/08/archives/theater-more-about-mrs-lincoln-look-away-by-kilty-opens-at.html| date=January 8, 1973| title=Theater: More About Mrs. Lincoln| access-date=March 8, 2018| author=Barnes, Clive| url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1974, Page played Regina in a production of ''"The Little Foxes"'' in which she starred opposite her husband [[Rip Torn]] (in the role of Benjamin Hubbard) directed by Philip Minor. It was staged for the Academy Festival Theater at [[Barat College]] in [[Lake Forest, Illinois]] and received a rave review from William Leonard of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'': "Geraldine Page is giving one of the greatest performances of her glorious career in Lake Forest and she is surrounded by a cast so superb that the Academy Festival Theater's production of ''"The Little Foxes"'' becomes a powerful, searing, unforgettable show... it is a harrowing and ennobling evening in the theater-the kind that comes along all 
too seldom. We have seen other stars in the role of the malevolently, ruthlessly scheming Regina Giddens—[[Tallulah Bankhead]] years ago in her greatest triumph, [[Eileen Herlie]] five seasons back at the Ivanhoe. Geraldine Page is a whole new story—I have seen Geraldine Page in innumerable roles, ever since she was playing in ''[[East Lynne]]'' with the Lake Zurich Players back in the '40s. I've never seen her more thrillingly convincing than in this production."<ref>{{Cite web | title=Chicago Tribune 06 Jul 1974, page Page 123 - Newspapers.com | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/197047887/?terms=geraldine%20page%20the%20little%20foxes%20philip%20minor&match=1 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807180939/https://www.newspapers.com/image/197047887/?terms=geraldine%20page%20the%20little%20foxes%20philip%20minor&match=1 | access-date=2025-03-18 | archive-date=2023-08-07}}</ref>
The legendary [[Kim Stanley]] once said of Page's Regina that it "was possibly the finest performance" she had ever seen.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Honolulu Star-Bulletin 05 Nov 1979, page 22 - Newspapers.com | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/271888487/?terms=geraldine%20page%20the%20little%20foxes%20&match=1 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807180940/https://www.newspapers.com/image/271888487/?terms=geraldine%20page%20the%20little%20foxes%20&match=1 | access-date=2025-03-18 | archive-date=2023-08-07}}</ref>
received a nomination for the [[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play]] (her second Tony Award nomination) for the 1975 production of [[Alan Ayckbourn]]'s ''[[Absurd Person Singular]]'' with Sandy Dennis and [[Richard Kiley]].<ref name=tcred/><ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/09/archives/absurd-person-singular-comedy-the-cast.html| date=October 9, 1974| page=48| title='Absurd Person Singular,' Comedy| author=Barnes, Clive| access-date=March 5, 2018| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

She also had a supporting role as a charismatic Hollywood evangelist (modeled after [[Aimee Semple McPherson]]){{sfn|Hischak|2012|p=53}} in ''[[The Day of the Locust (film)|The Day of the Locust]]'' (1975), an adaptation of the [[Nathanael West]] [[The Day of the Locust|novel of the same name]].{{sfn|Christensen|Foley|Kremer|1999|p=590}} In 1977, she appeared as a nun in the British comedy ''[[Nasty Habits (film)|Nasty Habits]]'',<ref name=afi>{{cite web| work=[[American Film Institute]] Catalog| location=Los Angeles| title=Geraldine Page Filmography| url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/persondetails/60656?sid=63c29a15-c327-439e-87f4-9e750fd2c3f4&sr=2.208523&cp=1&pos=0&cxt=Cast2| access-date=March 6, 2018}}</ref> and provided the voice role of Madame Medusa in the [[Walt Disney Productions|Walt Disney]] animated film ''[[The Rescuers]]''.{{sfn|Quinlan|1987|p=143}} During this time, she also appeared on television, guest-starring in the popular series ''[[Kojak]]'' (1976)<ref>{{cite episode| series=Kojak| title=A Shield for Murder| season=4| number=9| airdate=November 21, 1976| network=CBS}}</ref> and ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'' (1977).<ref>{{cite episode| series=Hawaii Five-O| title=The Descent of the Torches| airdate=October 20, 1977| network=CBS| season=10| number=5}}</ref>

Page appeared as the mother of three siblings and wife of a prominent attorney in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Interiors]]'' (1978). For her performance, Page was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress,{{sfn|Thise|2008|p=216}} and won a [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role]].{{sfn|Crystal|2007|p=628}} ''The New York Times''{{'}}s Vincent Canby lauded her performance in the film, writing: "Miss Page, looking a bit like a youthful [[Louise Nevelson]] with mink-lashed eyes, is marvelous — erratically kind, impossibly demanding, pathetic in her loneliness and desperate in her anger."<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Screen: 'Interiors,' a Departure for Woody Allen: Culture Shock| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0CEFDE1F3EE432A25751C0A96E9C946990D6CF| author=Canby, Vincent| date=August 2, 1978| access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref> The following year, in November 1979, Page was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref name=hof>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/19/archives/theater-hall-of-fame-enshrines-51-artists-great-things-and-blank.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Theater Hall of Fame Enshrines 51 Artists| author=Johnston, Laurie| page=15| date=November 19, 1979| access-date=March 6, 2018| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

=== 1980–1986: Later work and final roles===
[[File:GERALDINE PAGE AND BRIAN CLARK IN THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1|Page with Brian Clark in a 1984 production of ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'']]
Page starred as [[Zelda Fitzgerald]] in the last major Broadway production of a Williams play, ''[[Clothes for a Summer Hotel]]'' in 1980,<ref name=tcred/> followed by a supporting role in ''[[Harry's War (1981 film)|Harry's War]]'' (1981). Page starred as the secretive nun Mother Miriam Ruth in the Broadway production of ''[[Agnes of God]],'' which opened in 1982 and ran for 599 performances with Page performing in nearly all of them; for her role, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.<ref name=tcred/>

Also in 1983, [[Sabra Jones|Sabra Jones Strasberg]] and her husband [[John Strasberg]] founded [[the Mirror Theater Ltd]] and invited Page to accept the role of Founding Artist in Residence for its repertory program the Mirror Repertory Company.<ref>{{cite news| title=Mirror Rep Plans 3 Plays This Season| newspaper=The New York Times| first=Herbert| last=Mitgang| date=November 18, 1984| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/18/arts/mirror-rep-plans-3-plays-this-season.html| access-date=January 25, 2017| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Page remained continually active in theater, appearing in numerous repertory, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions throughout the 1980s; this included roles in a revivals of ''[[Inheritors (play)|Inheritors]]'' by [[Susan Glaspell]]<ref>{{cite web| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/14/theater/theater-inheritors-with-geraldine-page.html| date=December 14, 1983| access-date=March 8, 2018| title=Theater - 'Inheritors' with Geraldine Page| author=Mitgang, Herbert}}</ref> and ''[[Paradise Lost (play)|Paradise Lost]]'' by [[Clifford Odets]] in 1983,<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/20/arts/stage-paradise-lost-by-clifford-odets-revived.html| title=Stage - 'Paradise Lost' by Clifford Odets Revived| date=December 20, 1983| access-date=March 7, 2018| author=Mitgang, Herbert| url-access=subscription}}</ref> ''Rain'' by [[John Colton (screenwriter)|John Colton]] (based on the short story "[[Rain (short story)|Miss Thompson]]" by [[W. Somerset Maugham]]) the following year.<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/11/arts/theater-mirror-rep-in-a-revival-of-rain.html| title=Theater - Mirror Rep, in a Revival of 'Rain'| date=March 11, 1984| access-date=March 8, 2018| author=Gussow, Mel}}</ref> Further revivals followed in 1985: ''[[Vivat! Vivat Regina!]]'' by [[Robert Bolt]] (in which she played [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]),<ref>{{cite news| first=Mel| last=Gussow| title=Theater: Geraldine Page in Bolt's 'Vivat Regina!' |quote=There is one performance that deserves a vivat, although "performance" may not be the appropriate word. Elijah William Burkhardt is carried on stage as the infant James, the future king. Impeccably behaved, even as he is passed from lord to lord, he is, as his role demands, wide-eyed at the wonders around him. Perhaps one can attribute the baby's aplomb to his genes. He is Miss Page's grandson| url-access=subscription| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/17/theater/theater-geraldine-page-in-bolt-s-vivat-regina.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 17, 1985| access-date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> ''Clarence'' by [[Booth Tarkington]],<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/14/theater/the-stage-booth-tarkington-s-clarence.html| title=The Stage: Booth Tarkington's 'Clarence'| date=February 14, 1985| author=Gussow, Mel| access-date=March 8, 2018| url-access=subscription}}</ref> and ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'' (by [[Jean Giraudoux]]) in which she played the Madwoman to great acclaim).<ref>{{cite news| first=Mel| last=Gussow| title=STAGE: Geraldine Page as 'The Madwoman'| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/31/theater/stae-geraldine-page-as-the-madwoman.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=January 31, 1985| access-date=January 25, 2017| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Page earned her seventh Academy Award nomination for her performance in the dark comedy ''[[The Pope of Greenwich Village]]'' (1984).{{sfn|Thise|2008|p=218}} This marked a record at the time for most Academy Award nominations without a win,<ref name=science>{{cite news| newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]| title=Geraldine Page. A knack for blending pathos and humor, sentiment and strength. She prefers to call herself a 'memorable' rather than a 'great' actress, but a number of recent roles on stage and on screen -- including 'The Trip to Bountiful,' which garnered Page her eighth Oscar nomination -- tend to belie that estimate| date=March 25, 1986| author=DeVries, Hilary| access-date=March 7, 2018| url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1986/0325/zpage.html}}</ref> for which Page was tied with [[Peter O'Toole]] and [[Richard Burton]] (who themselves had also garnered seven nominations without winning).<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| title=Stage, Film Actress Geraldine Page Dies at 62| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1987/06/15/stage-film-actress-geraldine-page-dies-at-age-62/5191d83e-9e59-4f58-9ac7-703e717234ad/| author=Pearson, Richard| date=June 15, 1987| access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref> On television, Page had a supporting role in the miniseries ''[[The Dollmaker]]'' (1984), opposite [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Amanda Plummer]].<ref>{{cite journal| journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]| title=The Guise of Dolls| pages=68–9| date=May 14, 1984| author=Leonard, John| via=Google Books| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeUCAAAAMBAJ&q=the+dollmaker+geraldine+page&pg=PA68}}</ref> She appeared in the British [[horror film]] ''[[The Bride (1985 film)|The Bride]]'' opposite [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] and [[Jennifer Beals]]; the drama ''[[White Nights (1985 film)|White Nights]]'', directed by [[Taylor Hackford]]; and opposite [[Rebecca De Mornay]] in the drama ''[[The Trip to Bountiful]]'' (all 1985), in which she played an aging Southern Texas woman seeking to return to her hometown. The role earned Page wide critical acclaim, with the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' referring to it as "the performance of a lifetime."<ref name=baker/>

In 1986, she appeared on Broadway in ''The Circle'' by [[W. Somerset Maugham]]; during this production, Page won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance in ''The Trip to Bountiful''.<ref name=nyt/> During her acceptance speech, she thanked [[The Mirror Theater Ltd]]. Page wore her costume from ''The Circle'', which had been designed and made by Gail Cooper-Hecht, the Mirror Theater's costume designer.{{sfn|Cosgrave|2008|p=172}} She received the award from [[F. Murray Abraham]], who, after winning his [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'', also joined the Mirror Repertory Company to play the rag-picker in the ''Madwoman of Chaillot''.<ref>{{cite news| first=Enid| last=Nemy| title=Broadway | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/26/arts/broadway.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=April 26, 1985| access-date=April 22, 2017}}</ref> Prior to winning the Academy Award, Page said to ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine: "If I lose the Oscar this year, I'll have the record for the most nominations without ever winning... I'd love to be champion, [but the loser] doesn't have to get up there and make a fool of herself."<ref name=hutchings>{{cite magazine| magazine=People| url=http://people.com/archive/after-seven-oscar-snubs-geraldine-page-may-trip-off-to-bountiful-at-last-vol-25-no-12/| date=March 24, 1986| volume=25| issue=12| title=After Seven Oscar Snubs, Geraldine Page May Trip Off to Bountiful at Last| author=Hutchings, David}}</ref>

After winning the Academy Award, Page returned to finish her run performing in ''The Circle'' for [[The Mirror Theater Ltd|Mirror Theater]] and appeared opposite [[Carroll Baker]], [[Oprah Winfrey]], and [[Elizabeth McGovern]] in ''[[Native Son (1986 film)|Native Son]]'' (1986).<ref name=afi/> Page followed up ''Native Son'' with a lead role opposite [[Mary Stuart Masterson]] in ''[[My Little Girl]]'' (1987).<ref name=afi/> In the fall of 1986, Page asked permission to return to Broadway in a revival of [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' in the role of Madame Arcati. She was cast in the role, though the production would be Page's last. She was again nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, though she did not win. A week after the Tony Awards ceremony, Page failed to appear for two performances of the play and was found dead in her Manhattan home.<ref name=fulton/> The show lasted several weeks more, with Page's understudy [[Patricia Conolly]] taking over her role.<ref name=nyt/>

==Reception and acting style==
{{quote box|bgcolor=lavender|align=right|width=25%|quote=If [other actors] have trained the way you've been trained there is at least the hope of communication. But wonderful actors are wonderful to act with–it doesn't matter how they've been trained.|source=Page on acting, 1964{{sfn|Schechner|1964|p=125}} }}
Page was trained as a [[method acting|method actor]],<ref name=tulsa/> and at times worked with [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalysts]] when developing her interpretations of roles.{{sfn|Schechner|1964|pages=125–6}} She once told the ''Los Angeles Times'': "If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it."<ref name=fulton/> In a 1964 interview after completing the Broadway run of ''The Three Sisters'', Page discussed her method acting at length.{{sfn|Schechner|1964|pages=116–21}} When asked if she used [[Affective memory|emotional recall]] as a technique, she responded: "I would never shut it out. But I don't try to get one. My whole effort is to relax and keep the doors open so that there's room if one should pop up."{{sfn|Schechner|1964|p=126}}

During her life, Page was regarded as a respected [[character actor|character actress]].<ref name=science/> Speaking of her stage career in 1986, she said: "I used to think that by opening [night] all the work was done. Now I'm finding how much you can learn from the audience."<ref name=science/> She described acting as a "bottomless cup", adding, "If I studied for the next ninety years I'd just be scratching the surface."{{sfn|Schechner|1964|p=130}}

==Personal life==
Page was married to violinist [[Alexander Schneider]] from 1954 to 1957.<ref name=tcm/> On September 8, 1963, she married actor [[Rip Torn]], who was six years her junior, in [[Pinal, Arizona]].<ref>{{cite web| work=Arizona Vital Statistics| title=Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972| via=[[Ancestry.com]]| url=https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60873/40657_541932-00306/900057546?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dArizonaMarriages%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dGeraldine%26gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dPage%26gsln_x%3d0%26mssng%3dRip%26mssns%3dTorn%26MSAV%3d1%26uidh%3dyxl&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults| url-access=subscription}}</ref> They had played opposite one another in ''[[Sweet Bird of Youth]]'' on Broadway and in the [[Sweet Bird of Youth (1962 film)|1962 film]]. They had three children: a daughter, actress [[Angelica Page]], and twin sons, Anthony "Tony" and Jonathan "Jon" Torn.

Beginning in the early 1980s, Page and Torn lived separately<ref name=torn/> after he began an affair with actress [[Amy Wright]];<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|SPIN]]| title=Rip| author=Conrad, Harold| page=56| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CBAN_GTP9B4C&q=geraldine+page+blacklist&pg=PA56| via=Google Books| volume=1| issue=8| date=December 1985| issn=0886-3032}}</ref> Torn had first met Wright in 1976 and began the affair shortly after.<ref name=spectacular/> Page was aware of Torn and Wright's relationship, and had appeared onstage opposite Wright in the 1977 Off-Broadway production of ''The Stronger'', under Torn's direction.<ref name=spectacular>{{cite magazine| magazine=People| url=http://people.com/archive/her-spectacular-splashes-onstage-and-in-life-suggest-amy-wrights-success-is-far-from-accidental-vol-31-no-4/| title=Her Spectacular Splashes Onstage and in Life Suggest Amy Wright's Success Is Far from Accidental| date=January 30, 1989| volume=31| issue=4| author=McMurran, Kristin| access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref> In 1983, Torn fathered a child with Wright.<ref name=spectacular/> After the birth of the child, Page was questioned about her marriage by columnist [[Cindy Adams]], to which she responded: "Of course Rip and I are still married. We've been married for years. We're staying married. What's the big fuss?"<ref name=tcm>{{cite web| website=[[Turner Classic Movies]]| title=Biography for Geraldine Page| url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/146420%7C60656/Geraldine-Page/| access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref> In spite of their separation, Page and Torn remained married until her death; her daughter described their relationship as still "close" up until Page died in 1987.<ref name=torn/>

Page considered herself a [[foodie|gourmand]], once joking: "'Greedy Gut' is my middle name...Rip is wonderful. He does the cooking, and I do the eating. I love everything but eggplant."<ref name=hutchings/>

==Death and legacy ==
[[File:425 West 22nd Street.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.7|Page's townhouse in [[Chelsea, Manhattan]], where she died in 1987]]
On June 13, 1987, Page failed to arrive at the [[Neil Simon Theatre]] for both the afternoon and evening performances of [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'', which had begun its run in March.<ref name=tcred/> At the end of the show's evening performance, the play's producer announced that Page had been found dead in her lower Manhattan townhouse.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/15/obituaries/geraldine-page-62-dies-a-star-of-stage-and-film.html |title=Geraldine Page, 62, Dies - A Star of Stage and Film |first=Elizabeth |last=Kolbert |author-link=Elizabeth Kolbert |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 15, 1987 |access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name=fulton>{{cite news |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |title=Oscar Winner Geraldine Page Dead at 62: Stardom Reached in Her Own Way |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-15-mn-4225-story.html |date=June 15, 1987 |access-date=March 6, 2018 |last=Fulton |first=Mary Lou}}</ref> It was determined that she died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]].<ref name=nyt/>

On June 18, "an overflow crowd of colleagues, friends and fans", including [[Sissy Spacek]], [[James Earl Jones]], [[Amanda Plummer]], [[Jerry Stiller]], [[Anne Meara]] and husband Torn attended a memorial service held at the Neil Simon Theatre.<ref name="tribute">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/18/arts/tribute-to-geraldine-page-fills-neil-simon-theater.html |title=Tribute to Geraldine Page Fills Neil Simon Theater |first=Jeremy |last=Gerard |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 18, 1987 |access-date=August 31, 2015}}</ref>

Highlighting Page's achievements, actress [[Anne Jackson]] said, "[Page] used a stage like no one else I'd ever seen. It was like playing tennis with someone who had 26 arms."<ref name="tribute" /> Rip Torn called her "Mi corazón, mi alma, mi esposa" ("My heart, my soul, my wife") and said that they had "never stopped being lovers, and ... never will".<ref name="tribute" />

==Acting credits and accolades==
{{Main|Geraldine Page on screen and stage|List of awards and nominations received by Geraldine Page}}

Page earned a total of eight nominations before winning her first [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in 1986 for ''The Trip to Bountiful''.<ref name=fulton/> She was also a winner of two [[Golden Globe Awards]],<ref name=gg>{{cite web| url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/geraldine-page| website=GoldenGlobes| title=Geraldine Page| access-date=March 6, 2018}}</ref> two [[Primetime Emmy Awards]], and one [[British Academy Film Award|BAFTA]] award.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1979/film/supporting-actress| website=British Academy Film Awards| title=Film: Supporting Actress in 1979| access-date=March 6, 2018}}</ref>

For her stage work on Broadway, Page earned a total of four [[Tony Award]] nominations,<ref name=tony>{{cite web| website=Tony Awards Database| url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/tonyawardspersoninfo.php?nomname=Geraldine%20Page| title=Geraldine Page Tony Awards Info| access-date=March 6, 2018}}</ref> and was referred to by the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' as "one of the finest stage actors of her generation".<ref name=torn>{{cite news| newspaper=New York Daily News| title=Torn from My Heart| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/torn-heart-article-1.723487| date=January 14, 1996| author=Riedel, Michael| access-date=March 7, 2018}}</ref> She was inducted into the [[American Theatre Hall of Fame]] in 1979.<ref name=hof/>

==In popular culture==
[[Sarah Paulson]] portrayed Page in the 2017 anthology television series ''[[Feud (TV series)|Feud]]'', which chronicles the rivalry between actresses [[Bette Davis]] and [[Joan Crawford]] on the set of ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' (1962).<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]| url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/sarah-paulson-playing-geraldine-page-ryan-murphy-feud| title=Finally, We Know Who Sarah Paulson Is Playing in Ryan Murphy's Feud| author=Bradley, Laura| date=August 23, 2016| access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>

She was also portrayed by her daughter, [[Angelica Page]], in the stage production ''[[Turning Page]]''. A [[monologue]] play chronicling Page's life, it was also written by her daughter:<ref name=turning>{{cite magazine| magazine=[[Playbill]]| url=http://www.playbill.com/article/geraldine-pages-daughter-pays-tribute-in-new-solo-show| title=Geraldine Page's Daughter Pays Tribute in New Solo Show| author=Clement, Olivia| date=January 13, 2017| access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref> "I grew up in the center of her sparkling career," Angelica recalled. "As her only daughter I feel compelled to share her lessons and gifts with others who did and did not have the opportunity to know her magic intimately. She was a true rebel and trail blazer. A masterful woman who was ahead of her time and should not be forgotten anytime soon."<ref name=turning/> The play premiered in Los Angeles in 2016, followed by performances in New York City in 2017.<ref name=turning/>

==References==
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==Works cited==
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'''Academic resources'''
*[http://drs.library.yale.edu/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=beinecke:page&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes Geraldine Page Papers] at [[Yale University]] Digital Collections (family photographs and other papers)
*[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;type=simple;rgn=Entire%20Finding%20Aid;q1=Geraldine%20Page;view=reslist;subview=detail;sort=freq;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a Geraldine Page] at the [[University of Wisconsin]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223020/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a;focusrgn=summaryinfo;cc=wiarchives;byte=50771135 Actors Studio audio collection]

'''Videography'''
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKw6su_e6Z0 Page's award acceptance speech] at the [[58th Academy Awards]]

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