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

Early life

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

Career

She was active in film as well as Broadway. In 1960 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. 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.

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).

Private life

Page was married to violinist Alexander Schneider from 1954 to 1957. Later, she married the 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. Page and Torn had three children, a daughter (actress Angelica Torn) and twin sons.

Page, who had also been suffering from kidney disease, 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.

Academy Awards and Nominations

1986 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role
for The Trip to Bountiful
1985 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for The Pope of Greenwich Village
1979 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role
for Interiors
1973 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for Pete 'n' Tillie
1967 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for You're a Big Boy Now
1963 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role
for Sweet Bird of Youth
1962 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role
for Summer and Smoke
1954 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for Hondo

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