GERALDINE PAGE: Eccentricities of a ‘Method’ Actress

Films of the Golden Age
Issue Number 110
Fall 2022

“I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I want to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.”

One of the most influential artists of her time and dubbed “The First Lady of the American Theatre,” GERALDINE PAGE (1924-1987) came to the forefront via the Actors Studio’s’ “Method” school of thought. Celebrated early for her intensely neurotic stage work in the plays of Tennessee Williams, she was Oscar nominated for her very first credited film opposite John Wayne in HONDO (1953). Blacklisted for several years, she returned triumphantly after transferring her exalted Williams heroines to film (SUMMER AND SMOKE (1961) and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1962)). Gracing 30 films and earning seven Oscar nominations, she copped the award late in life with a touching perf in A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (1985).

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