Page, Geraldine (Sue)

Page, Geraldine [Sue] (1924–87), actress. Born in Kirksville, Missouri, she studied at the Goodman Theatre School and with Uta Hagen before coming to playgoers' attention as the frustrated spinster Alma Winemiller in a celebrated 1952 revival of Summer and Smoke at the Circle in the Square. Subsequent successes included the illiterate wife Lily in Midsummer (1953); Marcelline, the wife of a homosexual, in The Immoralist (1954); the prairie spinster Lizzy Curry in The Rainmaker (1954); the fading film star Princess Kosmonopolis in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959); the possessive Nina Leeds in a 1963 revival of Strange Interlude; various roles in the double bill White Lies and Black Comedy (1967); the aristocratic wife Marion in Absurd Person Singular (1974); the unstable Zelda Fitzgerald in Clothes for a Summer Hotel (1980); Mother Miriam Ruth in Agnes of God (1982); and the slovenly wife Lorraine in A Lie of the Mind (1985). Page was playing Madame Arcati in a 1986 revival of Blithe Spirit at the time of her death. Although she at first seemed to subscribe to the mannerisms of the Method School, she proved a versatile, wide‐ranging actress, particularly noted for her Tennessee Williams characters.