The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Mondays at Beinecke series presents Celebrating the Centennial of Geraldine Page with writer and theater critic Hilton Als, actress Estelle Parsons, and actress Angelica Page, the daughter of Geraldine Page.
Page’s New York career began when she was cast in the 1952 off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke directed by Jose Quintero. She drew wide praise for her performance, and the following year she made her Broadway debut in Mid-Summer by Vina Delmar. She went on to star in productions on and off-Broadway including The Immoralist (1954) , The Rainmaker (1954), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Absurd Person Singular (1974), Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980), Agnes of God(1982), Vivat! Vivat! Regina! (1985), A Lie of the Mind (1985,) and Blithe Spirit (1987).
Page’s film work included Hondo (1954), film versions of Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), The Day of the Locust (1975), The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) and The Trip to Bountiful (1985), for which she won the Academy Award for best actress. On television she appeared in numerous series and television movies and won Emmy awards for A Christmas Memory (1966) and The Thanksgiving Visitor (1967), both based on stories by Truman Capote.
The Beinecke Library holds the Geraldine Page Papers, a collection that includes personal and professional correspondence, writings, scripts, photographs, legal and financial documents, production programs, personal memorabilia, artwork, audiovisual materials, press clippings, and other printed material documenting Geraldine Page’s personal life and career as a stage, film, and television actress.
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