28 thoughts on “Geraldine Page Movies”

1. I saw 5. no tens, no favorites. like cogerson I did not like the beguiled , especially its ending.
   trip to bountiful touched my heart but one and done a 9, I saw it on the big screen the year my grandmother’s health failed, she asked to die. I tried to encourage her since her 90th birthday was coming up and she had 2 great grandchildren due to deliver. she lived 2 more years. God used her, at age 84, to make me aware of the eternal life I received when Jesus gave me faith. I was 25 years old. I had been an atheist for 7 years. I had spit in God’s face and told Him He did not exist, and He forgave me. she was a wonderful prayer warrior and God used her to show me His love through her church.
   Hondo is close to a 10, I will give it another try now that I am surrounded by and filled with appreciation for “the Duke”. I never thought of wayne as a good actor until I turned 40. then I started to let myself enjoy him for what he did and now he is one of my favorites, a great actor. who made 4 of my top ten westerns, great comedies, great war movies, great historical movies, and one of my all time top 10 dramas, the quiet man.

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   1. Hey bob cox
      1. Tally count: Lupino 12, me 8, you 5, Steve 4 and Flora 3.
      2. The first time I saw The Beguiled I did not like it….it has been grown on me…..I recently watched the remake….I like Clint’s version a lot more.
      3. Excellent memory of your grandmother, faith and movies…thanks for sharing it.
      4. So no #10s….with Hondo getting close…..I can see that……just re-watched Hondo a few weeks….a good but not great western.
      5. Thanks for the breakdown on John Wayne….he turned 40 roughly in the mid 1940s….I think his greatest performances were indeed after that.
      Good feedback as always.

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2. Hi

   Wonderful stage actress who like Ann Bancroft, was really a character star. I remember seeing Hondo but I don’t really remember her in it, it was more Wayne’s dog. But I think it was overshadowed by Shane.
   There’s a wonderful scene in Sweet Bird of Youth where she’s a movie star on the skids and there’s apreview with a close up on her face and it looks old and haggard and the audience start to laugh and jeer. I wonder how many stars went through this type of experience. She was brilliant in The Beguiled as the mad head teacher for a girl’s private school, yearning for Clint Eastwood.
   Her Oscar winning movie, A Trip to Bountiful is good but it’s more her performance and it was probably one of those career Oscars. Nevertheless she was a wonderful actress.

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   1. Hey Chris. Thanks for checking out our Geraldine Page UMR page. I thought she was pretty good in Hondo….as a kid the dog stood out more…but on a recent viewing…her performance is pretty stellar too. I have only seen Sweet Bird of Youth once….did not really like it….but I do remember the scene you talk about…I just saw Meryl Streep do the same thing in Death Becomes Her. I agree with you about A Trip To Bountiful…..they Oscar people were happy to give career Oscars in that time frame…one for Page in Bountiful….one for Newman in Color of Money…..one for Pacino in A Scent of a Woman….all…..clearly not their best work. Good feedback as always.

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3. Geraldine Page was a wonderful actress. I always thought of her as a stage actress first, and was surprised to learn that she had more misses than hits on Broadway, while scoring tremendous successes on tour or off Broadway. She was the first actor to be awarded a NY Drama Critics Award in an off Broadway Show- Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke.
   Counting The Rescuers, which I have only seen in a dubbed version, I have seen 12 GP movies. The films may not always have been great, but Page was awesome in all of them. To me, she was perhaps the best interpreter of Williams’ array of no longer youthful neurotic women, but she was also very well cast as the “heroine” in Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, her segment in Trilogy. Other favs are Dear Heart, Toys in the Attic, The Beguiled and the one that finally brought her the Oscar, The Trip to Bountiful.
   I think it is really great to have Geraldine’s Page now here @ UMR…and I can’t imagine why it never occured to me to request one 😉

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   1. Hey Lupino…..well…I was working on a return comment last night…it was awesome….worthy of Shakespeare….but I fell asleep before finishing it….and now it is gone….but trust me….it would have had your eyes watering….lol.

      So…second attempt. Your knowledge of theater is truly impressive. I had no idea about any of the information you shared. Thanks for taking the time and sharing it here. It makes me understand her career better. Wow…Dear Heart getting raves from you too……I am going to have to check that one out.

      Tally count: You 12, me 8, Steve 4 and Flora 3.

      I will take your word on her being the best “interpreter” of Tenn. Williams….I do not like his plays/movies at all….even the classics. Glad you like this subject….and thanks again for sharing your Page movie and stage thoughts.

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      1. Hello Bruce,
         thanks for the nice compliment on my knowledge of the american theater…it is more limited than you might think. There is a reason, though, why I was aware of Geraldine’s stage career. While at university (talking the Eighties here) I attended literature class, and during one term the topic was famous american playwrites. At one point, we were all assigned to do a paper on different topics- minimum 60 typed pages between terms. I was assigned “The difficulties of human relationships in the works of Tennessee Williams”. Thus, for four months, I read everything available on Williams- his plays, stories, his biography…and a lot of books on the american theater after WWll. I became truly fascinated with my subject, especially as I already was a fan of Wyman’s Glass Menagerie and american classic movies. Therefore, I enjoyed “stumbling” over information on Brando, Jessica Tandy and, among many others, Geraldine Page. Writing this paper made me look deep into the motivations of Williams’ characters and made me aware of the influence one’s upbringing has on one’s work in later life- like Hitchcocks catholic upbringing certainly influenced his work as a storyteller. In the end, I doubled the requested minimum of 60 pages (I endend up with 125) but had the distinct feeling that I learned a lot along the way.

         By the way, I prefer Cogerson to Shakespeare 🙂

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4. Ah the Rip Torn connection, first his cousin Sissy Spacek and then his ex-wife Geraldine. Years ago I saw Geraldine on Broadway in a revival of Blythe Spirit with Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner and Judith Ivey. A little later in the show’s run she did not show up for a performance and they found her dead in her hotel room. Geraldine was never on any of the Oracle of bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe lists. These are the people on the 2017 list she appeared with;

   1 ERIC ROBERTS The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   9 DONALD SUTHERLAND The Day of the Locust (1975)
   65 ROBERT LOGGIA The Three Sisters (1966)
   77 KAREN BLACK The Day of the Locust (1975)
   77 KAREN BLACK You’re a Big Boy Now (1967)
   87 MICKEY ROURKE The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   91 JAMES EARL JONES My Little Girl (1986)
   115 M. EMMET WALSH The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   145 HELEN MIRREN White Nights (1985)
   157 BURT YOUNG The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   164 VING RHAMES Native Son (1986)
   181 RIP TORN Nasty Habits (1977)
   181 RIP TORN Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
   181 RIP TORN You’re a Big Boy Now (1967)
   187 DARYL HANNAH The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   211 JOHN HEARD The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
   220 ELI WALLACH Nasty Habits (1977)
   227 CARY ELWES The Bride (1985)
   310 EDWARD HERRMANN Harry’s War (1981)
   318 DAN HEDAYA I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   334 PAUL HERMAN The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   342 BEVERLY D’ANGELO Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   349 ISABELLA ROSSELLINI White Nights (1985)
   394 JOHN LITHGOW I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   423 AMANDA PLUMMER Riders to the Sea (1987)
   434 CLINT EASTWOOD The Beguiled (1971)
   472 OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Walls of Glass (1985)
   523 HARRY FIELDER The Bride (1985)
   556 DAVID RASCHE HONKY TONK FREEWAY (1981)
   556 DAVID RASCHE NATIVE SON (1986)
   567 SHANE RIMMER Nasty Habits (1977)
   567 SHANE RIMMER White Nights (1985)
   588 TIMOTHY SPALL THE BRIDE (1985)
   640 CLANCY BROWN THE BRIDE (1985)
   677 BEAU BRIDGES Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   685 PETER GALLAGHER My Little Girl (1986)
   688 KEVIN COONEY THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL (1985)
   701 MATT DILLON Native Son (1986)
   733 PEPE SERNA The Day of the Locust (1975)
   739 DIANE KEATON Interiors (1978)
   770 JOE GRIFASI Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   770 JOE GRIFASI The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   781 SHELLEY WINTERS The Three Sisters (1966)
   807 TERI GARR Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   818 RICHARD MASUR I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   869 JERRY STILLER NASTY HABITS (1977)
   871 HELEN KELLY(I) I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN (1982)
   871 HELEN KELLY(I) WHITE NIGHTS (1985)
   872 JOE PESCI I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   914 CLIFF ROBERTSON J.W. Coop (1971)
   928 BILL WALTERS You’re a Big Boy Now (1967)
   929 JENNIFER BEALS The Bride (1985)

   People who were on the 2000 list but have since fallen off and appeared in a film with Ms. Page are;

   41 BURGESS MEREDITH The Day of the Locust (1975)
   48 MARTIN BALSAM Trilogy (1969)
   108 DUB TAYLOR Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
   108 DUB TAYLOR The Rescuers (1977)
   132 GLENN FORD Dear Heart (1964)
   133 WALTER MATTHAU Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
   137 CARROLL BAKER Native Son (1986)
   139 E.G. MARSHALL Interiors (1978)
   165 R.G. ARMSTRONG J.W. Coop (1971)
   179 JOHN WAYNE Hondo (1953)
   185 KEVIN MCCARTHY The Three Sisters (1966)
   189 VAL AVERY The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   219 ELISHA COOK JR. Harry’s War (1981)
   221 JOHN CRAWFORD J.W. Coop (1971)
   248 ARTHUR KENNEDY La chica del lunes (1967)
   249 PAT HINGLE Happy as the Grass Was Green (1973)
   252 WILLIAM HICKEY Walls of Glass (1985)
   280 BILLY BARTY The Day of the Locust (1975)
   290 GEORGE WALLACE Native Son (1986)
   307 MATT CLARK The Beguiled (1971)
   313 JAMES TOLKAN The Three Sisters (1966)
   313 JAMES TOLKAN Walls of Glass (1985)
   326 ANGELA LANSBURY Dear Heart (1964)
   391 JERRY HARDIN Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   412 SAM WATERSTON Interiors (1978)
   466 KENNETH MCMILLAN The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   473 RENE AUBERJONOIS Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
   474 WILLIAM HOOTKINS White Nights (1985)
   486 JOHN GLOVER White Nights (1985)
   499 JESSICA TANDY Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   513 RICHARD JORDAN Interiors (1978)
   542 PAUL FIX Hondo (1953)
   544 LEO GORDON Hondo (1953)
   555 HUME CRONYN Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   583 PAUL STEWART The Day of the Locust (1975)
   592 WHIT BISSELL Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
   618 JACK KEHOE The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   639 FRANCES BAY Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   645 LAURENCE HARVEY Summer and Smoke (1961)
   655 HOWARD HESSEMAN Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   661 RICHARD BRADFORD The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
   754 NOBLE WILLINGHAM Harry’s War (1981)
   782 LEONARD TERMO The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   799 MAUREEN STAPLETON Interiors (1978)
   799 MAUREEN STAPLETON Trilogy (1969)
   811 ROBERT NICHOLS Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
   839 ANNA LEVINE The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   881 ROBERT DOQUI I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   882 DEAN MARTIN Toys in the Attic (1963)
   907 JULIE HARRIS You’re a Big Boy Now (1967)
   921 DANIEL STERN Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   921 DANIEL STERN I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   922 JOHN CASSAVETES Taxi (1953)
   927 PHILIP BOSCO The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
   927 PHILIP BOSCO Walls of Glass (1985)
   938 ALBERT SALMI I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
   965 MARY WICKES Dear Heart (1964)
   982 BILLY BENEDICT Dear Heart (1964)

   Geraldine appeared with 17 Oscar winners;

   CLIFF ROBERTSON J.W. Coop (1971)
   DIANE KEATON Interiors (1978)
   DIANNE WIEST I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN (1982)
   GLENDA JACKSON Nasty Habits (1977)
   GREER GARSON The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
   HELEN MIRREN White Nights (1985)
   JESSICA TANDY Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
   JOHN WAYNE Hondo (1953)
   MARTIN BALSAM Trilogy (1969)
   MAUREEN STAPLETON Interiors (1978)
   MAUREEN STAPLETON Trilogy (1969)
   OLYMPIA DUKAKIS Walls of Glass (1985)
   PAUL NEWMAN Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
   RITA MORENO Summer and Smoke (1961)
   SANDY DENNIS Nasty Habits (1977)
   SANDY DENNIS The Three Sisters (1966)
   SHELLEY WINTERS The Three Sisters (1966)
   WALTER MATTHAU Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
   WENDY HILLER Toys in the Attic (1963)

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   1. Hey Dan. I did not know that about her passing. I have read that some baseball announcers fear dying when their team is on a road trip…..and that they die alone. Don Drysdale had that concern and that is exactly how he went. Anyway….I wonder if thespians have that same fear?

      Not surprised she is not on the Oracle list. All the lists seems a little on the “light side”….but her time spent on stage really kept her movies to a pretty small number. Not surprised that Rip Torn was her most frequent co-star. I actually had not connected that Page was Spacek’s aunt…at least for awhile.

      As for Oscar winners…17 is a nice percentage…but looking at other totals it seems pretty low. Good information as always….thanks for sharing it.

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