Happy Geraldine Page's birthday! ImageImageImageImage
A favorite memory: Agnes of God, and Elizabeth Ashley acting her brains out as Geraldine decided, for some reason, to quietly converse with the back of her own wrist, and no one in the theater was looking at anything else.
Bonus Geraldine Page–Julie Harris shot. Image
Leave us not forget that Geraldine Page took her turn in a Sam Shepard play.

My god, that hand. Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I just, at random, opened the George Jean Nathan volume I'd set on my bed table last night to an entry on Geraldine Page, flipped a few pages ahead, and landed on an entry on Julie Harris.
He thought them both v. promising.

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