Always captivated by her mannerisms, cadence of speech and a strange childlike innocence. She is undeniable honest and true talent. I so appreciate that she aged naturally.
I couldn't have put it any better! Funnily enough, your description of Geraldine's qualities, especially the child-like innocence also applies to Meg Tilly, who was in the film adaptation of 'Agnes of God'.
When Ms Page won the Academy Award in 1986(for the 1985 film Best Actress for The Trip To Bountiful)the presenter F. Murray Abraham said, The winner is a woman whom I consider the greatest actress in the English language: GERALDINE PAGE!!
She is a natural actor/artist. None of the artificiality, trappings, and pretense that some many "stars" fall prey to in Hollywood. She is an artist, not merely a"star."
Interestingly, Page died of a heart attack in the early hours of June 13, 1987, having very likely read about her friend Elizabeth Hartman's tragic suicide in the New York Time only some hours before, where Hartman's obituary had been published on June 12th. They had appeared in two film productions together (Don Siegel's The Beguiled, and the 1973 film Walking Tall), and were were supposed to appear in a third.
The circumstances of her personal life at the time were especially heartbreaking. She was just a year removed from winning an Oscar, performing in a posthumously Tony award nominated role on Broadway, and less than three months away from her 25th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately her husband had different plans for his life at that time, as in taking up with a much younger woman and fathering a child with her, and she died alone in her townhouse.
I've always been fascinated with her acting. The way she touches her face and looks at you out of the corners of her eyes. All her charactors in movies do the same things. It brings such a realness to the charactor.
Priceless interview. Even the great Geraldine Page says, "...I've never talked about this..." All credit due to the interviewer. Tom Cottle is better than Charlie Rose-he is probing, yet empathetic; and doesn't interrupt his guest. He knows we want to hear from the star, and he doesn't think HE is the star. He's as interested in the star as his audience. Thank you to whoever posted this. Great actress. Great interview.
Thank you so much for sharing this interview with us. Geraldine Page was, is and will always be my favourite actress ❤. I am still waiting on someone to write a biography of her. I remember her daughter saying she was in the process of writing it but nothing came of it.
She did create a stage production in which she played her mother in something of a one-woman show. She also maintains a Facebook page in which she shares details of her mother's life.
One of the greatest actresses America has ever produced. She didn't make a great many films because she preferred the stage. So many wonderful performances.
She made many odd choices that frustrated her agent. Who's Afraid if Virginia Woolf, The Night of the Iguana imagine those with her? She was wonderful, but a bit nutty. Right?????
"She didn't make a great many movies"??? Are you kidding? She received 8 Oscar nominations over 4 decades. A stage actress who did few movies was Kim Stanley.
I fell in love with her at a young age watching her as the evil Mrs. Marrable in Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice and then followed her career ever since! This interview is incredible! She's so open and honest in this interview!!! I bet she was great to know in person!!!
Ms. Page! So many great times in the theatre- Agnes Of God, Absurd Person Singular, A Lie of the Mind and film moments in The Trip to Bountiful and maybe my favorite, Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Never knew she was a hip person style-wise! Her characters were always conservative middle-aged ladies, or eccentric socialites, and whatnot. Here her hair relaxed, in a peasant blouse, and those oh so huge sunnies! Stellar woman!
I completed a bucket list project this year, watching all 8 of her Oscar nominated performances . Even in small roles like “The Pope of Greenwich Village”, she killed. My least favorite was “You’re A Big Boy Now”; and the best IMO was Woody Allen’s “Interiors”.
"Big Boy" was a disappointment!! "Pete & Tillie" was really "sillie!" But, the stage was her space! Sad she never won a Tony! Would love to have seen her in "Strange Interlude!" I was so lucky to see her in what would be her last performance ever in "Blithe Spirit" on June 12th, 1987. Sadly, she died that night after the performance. Such a loss ❤
her body of work speaks for itself. a true chameleon…. evie in dear heart, alexandra in sweet bird, the eccentric cousin in a christmas memory, carrie watts in the trip to bountiful, to name just a handful. it is hard to believe it is the same actress in each of those rolls. she immersed herself into each character. she wasn’t a star but she was the consummate actor. i wish she was better remembered today.
I’ve never even heard about Geraldine Page before, all I knew is that she won the Best actress Oscar over Whoopi Goldberg. Now I’m a fan and aspire even a bit of talented than she was.
I have never ever seen the actress who voiced one of the best Disney villains, Madame Medusa from The Rescuers until I saw this interview. You'd never guess by seeing this. What a fantastic choice.
Love this lady of the Theater, Film and Television. Yes, "Agnes of God" did appear in Louisville long before it got to Broadway. People should realize what a great Theater city Louisville is, especially Tony winning Actors Theater of Louisville. A great city for all the Arts.
Eccentric seems a little derogatory, Geraldine Page is definitely quirky and girlish..: she would have been amazing to have dinner with! What an amazing actress too!
@@VW613she very much knew and was even asked about it in an interview once after the child was born, saying that they weren't going to get divorced. It's sad that she was less than three months away from her 25th wedding anniversary and died alone in her townhouse. One imagines that if he had decided not to step out, he could have been there, and even if there was nothing to do, at least she would have had someone with her at the end.
So magnificent! Tammy Grimes, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris...a few of them. Great, great, great. Actually Stockard Channing is in this tradition. Anyway, the year Page was nominated for an Oscar I saw her in E. J. Corvette. I do not recall what I was dong there but SHE was shopping for a fur stole (nice but cheap) as she intended upon attending the Oscar ceremonies. I can recall seeing her sweep through the store..sweep through it....asking the sales team to lay out the stoles so she could see the pelts and make a calculated decision. It was so great being a fly on the wall and observing this great actress without being noticed. One of the finest..America`s very best!!!
America has sold out to junk. Mainly because I think many like Biden (and the cartel parasites living off the USA) have Big Big interests in CHINA. WE pay the price!
Yes...she does...have a shyness and bashfullness about her..being an actress brings out her hidden confidence and talent....feminine and lady..like..rare today..
One unique, stand out actress.Interesting to see her out of character and speaking so relaxed vs. her many over- the-top, dramatic rolls. Her passing at age 62 was tragic. Far too young.
Man when it comes to actresses i dont have enough words to describe how fabulous Geraldine Page was. The scene in "" The Pope of Greenwich Village "" those cops from internal affair come in to talk and she is smoking that cigarette and has her Rosaries and tell them off, for me one of the Greatest little scenes in movies.
She sometimes would be interviewed by TV stations in the New York area during the seventies and eighties, with and without Rip Torn. I wish some of those would re-emerge, hopefully they were recorded. I always thought she was very likeable. She had a girlish quality, and seems hippie-like. No wonder she liked the sixties! But it does seem unbelievable she would be gone in only four years. What a loss 😔
As a child, she was the first person I noticed as an actor. I noticed her performance, in a very positive and awe inspired way. As an adult, I found Phillip Seymour Hoffman comparable.
How ironic that she won her Oscar over the actress ( Anne Bancroft) who played the same role in the movie ‘Agnes of God ‘ that Geraldine played in the Broadway play. Also interesting that she mentioned the word Bountiful in conversation (5:38). Wonder if that was purely coincidental or maybe the movie ‘ The Trip to Bountiful’ was already in production.
She is so charming woman, that smile....her mannerism, everything about her. You could easily fall in love with her. Gone too soon. RIP Geraldine, you were one of the kind in every sense.
It`s funny cause I too was a bit of a mouse in high school. All I can say is this: the kind of guys who fell for me then are fairly different from the guys who fall for me now.Just shows to go you..there is always someone for everyone.
I actually went backstage the last night she performed "Blithe Spirit" .. I'd made up a story on a cocktail napkin about being on a set with her! And it worked! She was a paragon of grace and style. The horrifying thing was she died later that night!! I saw it on CNN when I got back to the hotel room. In utter disbelief I called the New York Times and they, sadly confirmed it. I still have the signed program!! There will never be another Miss Page!
It's hard to watch this and know she died only 4 years later. I just love her and would have loved to have known her. While watching this I could not help but think of Little Edie Beale.
For a woman of her age she had such a vibrant youthful humor that was not frayed or eroded with age or time....she appears to be what I imagine classical American women of the founding fathers behaved as and looked like with their gentle smiling faces and unpretentious-beauty.
This is just few years prior to her death. Granted she looked younger here than in many of her roles as she often played characters older than she actually was.
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Look how civilized these old interviews were. And how a REAL actress looks. The best!
She's such an incredible person, and an unmatched actress. So glad we can watch these recorded gems.
I have a notion to second THAT emotion !
Always captivated by her mannerisms, cadence of speech and a strange childlike innocence. She is undeniable honest and true talent. I so appreciate that she aged naturally.
I couldn't have put it any better! Funnily enough, your description of Geraldine's qualities, especially the child-like innocence also applies to Meg Tilly, who was in the film adaptation of 'Agnes of God'.
This has to be the best she ever gave - the questions were so personal without being offensive, and she really poured her heart out.
I could’ve watched a few more hours of this! Geraldine Page was such a fascinating conversationalist.
She was an astoundingly talented actor. So glad to have found this interview.
I heartily concur !
Such a sweet voice too. I could listen to her talk forever.
She had, even at this age, a girlish, wispy tone. I always loved the mercurial mood changes in her performances. You never knew what was coming next.
When Ms Page won the Academy Award in 1986(for the 1985 film Best Actress for The Trip To Bountiful)the presenter F. Murray Abraham said, The winner is a woman whom I consider the greatest actress in the English language: GERALDINE PAGE!!
She is a natural actor/artist. None of the artificiality, trappings, and pretense that some many "stars" fall prey to in Hollywood. She is an artist, not merely a"star."
Such an interesting actress. I always loved watching her. Hard to fathom that she died 4 years later at 62.
Interestingly, Page died of a heart attack in the early hours of June 13, 1987, having very likely read about her friend Elizabeth Hartman's tragic suicide in the New York Time only some hours before, where Hartman's obituary had been published on June 12th. They had appeared in two film productions together (Don Siegel's The Beguiled, and the 1973 film Walking Tall), and were were supposed to appear in a third.
The circumstances of her personal life at the time were especially heartbreaking. She was just a year removed from winning an Oscar, performing in a posthumously Tony award nominated role on Broadway, and less than three months away from her 25th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately her husband had different plans for his life at that time, as in taking up with a much younger woman and fathering a child with her, and she died alone in her townhouse.
I've seen her on stage several times and it's an honor and I still miss her 😢
I've always been fascinated with her acting. The way she touches her face and looks at you out of the corners of her eyes. All her charactors in movies do the same things. It brings such a realness to the charactor.
Priceless interview. Even the great Geraldine Page says, "...I've never talked about this..." All credit due to the interviewer. Tom Cottle is better than Charlie Rose-he is probing, yet empathetic; and doesn't interrupt his guest. He knows we want to hear from the star, and he doesn't think HE is the star. He's as interested in the star as his audience. Thank you to whoever posted this. Great actress. Great interview.
Tom Cottle was more natural and open than Charlie Rose. The latter always looked to me like he was battling demons.
Bless her sweet soul! Thank you for sharing this gem
I could not agree more !
This interviewer is absolutely besotted with Geraldine, and who wouldn’t be. She’s enchanting.
Love her! Thanks for posting!!
Wonderful interview giving us an insight into one of America's best actresses. Recently saw woody Allen s interiors were she gave a great performance
Thank you for posting. A spectacularly great actress!
I agree 100 per cent !
Thank you so much for sharing this interview with us. Geraldine Page was, is and will always be my favourite actress ❤.
I am still waiting on someone to write a biography of her. I remember her daughter saying she was in the process of writing it but nothing came of it.
She did create a stage production in which she played her mother in something of a one-woman show. She also maintains a Facebook page in which she shares details of her mother's life.
One of the greatest actresses America has ever produced. She didn't make a great many films because she preferred the stage. So many wonderful performances.
She made many odd choices that frustrated her agent. Who's Afraid if Virginia Woolf, The Night of the Iguana imagine those with her? She was wonderful, but a bit nutty. Right?????
"She didn't make a great many movies"??? Are you kidding? She received 8 Oscar nominations over 4 decades. A stage actress who did few movies was Kim Stanley.
@@jochenstossberg5427no, it’s not right. It’s nasty. That you can’t understand her is more likely evidence of her sanity.
This was a great interview. Geraldine Page was such a good actor. Loved this!
I fell in love with her at a young age watching her as the evil Mrs. Marrable in Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice and then followed her career ever since! This interview is incredible! She's so open and honest in this interview!!! I bet she was great to know in person!!!
Love Love Love Geraldine Page!
Loved her, brilliant actress!
My sentiments exactly !
she was indeed a beautiful soul & a real cute woman, may she rest in peace
Ms. Page! So many great times in the theatre- Agnes Of God, Absurd Person Singular, A Lie of the Mind and film moments in The Trip to Bountiful and maybe my favorite, Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?
I'm so jealous.
Never knew she was a hip person style-wise! Her characters were always conservative middle-aged ladies, or eccentric socialites, and whatnot. Here her hair relaxed, in a peasant blouse, and those oh so huge sunnies! Stellar woman!
she was great i summer and smoke 1961. great woman and actress !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luv Geraldine page such a sweet soul !!! Great actress!!
imho THE GREATEST actress! F. Murray Abraham agrees!
I'm so glad I found this, and thank you for posting it! An informative interview with a multifaceted person. Thank you!
Like most things you post, this is quite wonderful!
I completed a bucket list project this year, watching all 8 of her Oscar nominated performances . Even in small roles like “The Pope of Greenwich Village”, she killed. My least favorite was “You’re A Big Boy Now”; and the best IMO was Woody Allen’s “Interiors”.
Interiors was so intense. Page was genius in it.
"Big Boy" was a disappointment!! "Pete & Tillie" was really "sillie!"
But, the stage was her space! Sad she never won a Tony!
Would love to have seen her in "Strange Interlude!"
I was so lucky to see her in what would be her last performance ever in "Blithe Spirit" on June 12th, 1987. Sadly, she died that night after the performance.
Such a loss ❤
her body of work speaks for itself. a true chameleon…. evie in dear heart, alexandra in sweet bird, the eccentric cousin in a christmas memory, carrie watts in the trip to bountiful, to name just a handful. it is hard to believe it is the same actress in each of those rolls. she immersed herself into each character. she wasn’t a star but she was the consummate actor. i wish she was better remembered today.
So sweet!
Love her one of the best thanks for posting
I adore her.
Simply the greatest!
I’ve never even heard about Geraldine Page before, all I knew is that she won the Best actress Oscar over Whoopi Goldberg. Now I’m a fan and aspire even a bit of talented than she was.
I have never ever seen the actress who voiced one of the best Disney villains, Madame Medusa from The Rescuers until I saw this interview. You'd never guess by seeing this. What a fantastic choice.
The only interview of her I found on UA-cam.
Love, love,love Geraldine Page. So unique and a great actress.
Love this lady of the Theater, Film and Television. Yes, "Agnes of God" did appear in Louisville long before it got to Broadway. People should realize what a great Theater city Louisville is, especially Tony winning Actors Theater of Louisville. A great city for all the Arts.
Eccentric seems a little derogatory, Geraldine Page is definitely quirky and girlish..: she would have been amazing to have dinner with! What an amazing actress too!
She was married to Rip Torn. Their mailbox said, “Torn-Page.”
I had no idea!
Rip had a long time mistress & baby mama. She knew, and I think it contributed to her early death.
@@VW613she very much knew and was even asked about it in an interview once after the child was born, saying that they weren't going to get divorced. It's sad that she was less than three months away from her 25th wedding anniversary and died alone in her townhouse. One imagines that if he had decided not to step out, he could have been there, and even if there was nothing to do, at least she would have had someone with her at the end.
Whoa, love this woman, always thought Rip Torn stand up guy, this guts me. Sad but so believable 💔
So magnificent! Tammy Grimes, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris...a few of them. Great, great, great. Actually Stockard Channing is in this tradition. Anyway, the year Page was nominated for an Oscar I saw her in E. J. Corvette. I do not recall what I was dong there but SHE was shopping for a fur stole (nice but cheap) as she intended upon attending the Oscar ceremonies. I can recall seeing her sweep through the store..sweep through it....asking the sales team to lay out the stoles so she could see the pelts and make a calculated decision. It was so great being a fly on the wall and observing this great actress without being noticed. One of the finest..America`s very best!!!
America has sold out to junk. Mainly because I think many like Biden (and the cartel parasites living off the USA) have Big Big interests in CHINA. WE pay the price!
Agree that Stockard Channing is very much "in this tradition" of this brilliant actress.
Yes...she does...have a shyness and bashfullness about her..being an actress brings out her hidden confidence and talent....feminine and lady..like..rare today..
One unique, stand out actress.Interesting to see her out of character and speaking so relaxed vs. her many over- the-top, dramatic rolls. Her passing at age 62 was tragic. Far too young.
Man when it comes to actresses i dont have enough words to describe how fabulous Geraldine Page was. The scene in "" The Pope of Greenwich Village "" those cops from internal affair come in to talk and she is smoking that cigarette and has her Rosaries and tell them off, for me one of the Greatest little scenes in movies.
She looked beautiful playing Alexandra Delago in 'Sweet Bird of Youth'...her hair by Sydney Guillerof is smashing.
One of the greatest actresses of the 20th Century along with Laurette Taylor and Anna Magnani.
So true !
She had a brilliant technique for seeming to be real.
🤔 Wonder if she was considered for the movie "Agnes of God". She had to be. 👏 She was an excellent actress.
She sometimes would be interviewed by TV stations in the New York area during the seventies and eighties, with and without Rip Torn. I wish some of those would re-emerge, hopefully they were recorded. I always thought she was very likeable.
She had a girlish quality, and seems hippie-like. No wonder she liked the sixties! But it does seem unbelievable she would be gone in only four years. What a loss 😔
One of the best and my favorite Actress!
The voice of Madame Medusa In 'The Rescuers'!
Love her.
An excellent character actress.
Indubitably !
As a child, she was the first person I noticed as an actor. I noticed her performance, in a very positive and awe inspired way. As an adult, I found Phillip Seymour Hoffman comparable.
LOL at about 3:40 the camearman changes angle and it looks like her hair is electrified.
I don't know who Geraldine Page is but that was a lovely interview.
How ironic that she won her Oscar over the actress ( Anne Bancroft) who played the same role in the movie ‘Agnes of God ‘ that Geraldine played in the Broadway play. Also interesting that she mentioned the word Bountiful in conversation (5:38). Wonder if that was purely coincidental or maybe the movie ‘ The Trip to Bountiful’ was already in production.
I caught “bountiful” as well. I thought the same.
Also: Geraldine lost both Tony and Oscar for Anne in the 1960s.
@@jamesrsfo same. Glad I'm not the only one who caught that!
He looks like Rodger Staubach.
She should have won the Oscar for Woody Allen's Interiors.
Yes I would agree she was eccentric but in a nice way. 🙂
She is so charming woman, that smile....her mannerism, everything about her. You could easily fall in love with her. Gone too soon. RIP Geraldine, you were one of the kind in every sense.
I adore her she is a legend
It`s funny cause I too was a bit of a mouse in high school. All I can say is this: the kind of guys who fell for me then are fairly different from the guys who fall for me now.Just shows to go you..there is always someone for everyone.
LEGEND.
God, I wish there was an audio recording of Page playing Mother Miriam in Agnes of God.
Why? What was it like? Share with those of us who weren't there please.
She seemed like a really interesting person. I’ve only seen some of her work and never any interviews.
Genius.
she was just wonderful
I actually went backstage the last night she performed "Blithe Spirit" .. I'd made up a story on a cocktail napkin about being on a set with her! And it worked! She was a paragon of grace and style. The horrifying thing was she died later that night!! I saw it on CNN when I got back to the hotel room. In utter disbelief I called the New York Times and they, sadly confirmed it.
I still have the signed program!! There will never be another Miss Page!
She's so delicious. But this interview is another role. She was the best!!
It's hard to watch this and know she died only 4 years later. I just love her and would have loved to have known her. While watching this I could not help but think of Little Edie Beale.
She was adorable 😊
For a woman of her age she had such a vibrant youthful humor that was not frayed or eroded with age or time....she appears to be what I imagine classical American women of the founding fathers behaved as and looked like with their gentle smiling faces and unpretentious-beauty.
She wasn’t even 60 here!
She’s such a freak. I love her.
She was ROBBED when she lost the Oscar for "Interiors".
Yes, it was a tour de force.
She was beautiful when she was younger
This is just few years prior to her death. Granted she looked younger here than in many of her roles as she often played characters older than she actually was.
Are we sure Tom Cottle isn't Paulie Walnuts?
Is she high?
I don't think so.
interviewer freaky
He adores her and she him.
May i say that ,beside a first class actress, she's is also the hottest woman?