European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Cera Dine Page anal Kip torn in new York oly. The unorthodox career of Geraldine Page by Bob Thomas associated press Geraldine Page has 3 losing Streak that most of her colleagues might envy she has lost More oscars than any other actress in Academy award history. Be the Missouri born actress says she always knew Slu was t going to win. It was wonderful just to sit there and enjoy being nominated which is Honor enough. I was saved Ilu embarrassment and danger of gelling up and Kivit b a speech which nobody would Tike anyway said Page who has been nominated seven times. If in  too Brief it would offend the people i did l mention. Ii it was Loo Long the audience would Al i bored. The Only Safe thing is 10 thank everyone1 you be Ever known. No Way. The Best thing would be jus o forget  she believes she was present at All seven Oscar shows she is tied for he dubious record with Peter o Toole and Richard Burton. At least she remembers the ceremonies for each of her nominations beginning in 1953 with Hondo and continuing through the so Catbird of oui i summer and smoke. Pate n Tilly you re j big boy not interiors and last year s the Pope of Greenwich Vil hic now the Hollywood crowd is belting that Page will be nominated for the eighth time next month. She has been the subject of rave reviews for her performance in the trip to Bou Mitula the new film based on Norton Foote s 1953 television play which he later adapted to the stage. 20 stripes Magazine january 30, 1586 wait till you see this Rolel she said. It is a dream she plays a Texas widow with a fierce determination to return to her beginnings in the Small town of Bountiful. To ii the Best role she has Ever had i can t say that she replied. Each r Ole is like a new child. You can t say Intuit one is belter than he  the actress came Here from new Vork on a two Day vacation from the Oil Broadway play a lie of the mind. During a break in television interviews to promote her new movie she ordered a Hearty lunch at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. "1 Learned to  like this at Home she said. My Grandfather aft sys insisted thai i clean my Plute. Think of ail the starving people in Greece he told me. I tried to explain that my eating Cheryl Hing would t help those starving people Geraldine Page has had a curious relationship with the film world. After she stunned new York As the Tennessee Williams heroine in summer and smoke the film offers arrived. However Hollywood could t quite figure out what to do with someone who was obviously a Fine actress but lacked the element of Glamour. Finally she signed a seven year contract with agent producer Charles Feldman and was assigned to Hondo with John Wayne. She found herself working in 120-Degrce Mexico with Wayne and the anti communist activist Ward Bond. Duke was fairly Friendly toward me until Ward Bond remembered that 1 had studied acting with Uta Hagen in new York Page said. Of course Uta had played Desdemona to Paul Robeson s Othello so that automatically made me suspect. From then on i was an outcast in the Hondo company. Even though i was nominated for an Academy award i did t make another movie for seven  Robeson was controversial because of his association Slih communist causes and because he won the International Stalin peace prize in 1953. Pago was born 61 years ago in Kirksville to and grew up in Chicago where her doctor father encouraged her m pursue the arts. She yearned for a musical career but the family could t afford a piano during the depression so she began acting in Church plays. After College she worked in Midwest Heaters. I always played characters she remarked. At 17 in my second role i played a -15-year-old, which seemed awfully old to me. I used a Cane and put Corn starch in my hair. Chancie roles i be always been  by the time she reached new York she had the experience of 500 roles but still had to take Odd jobs to finance her  studies. She was modelling Negligee at a factory when she was discovered by Jose Quint Zero who later directed her in summer and smote. Over the years Page has never waited for Hollywood to Call. Along with husband rip torn she has been a pillar of inc actors studio in new Vork and a he of he mind n her 33rd play. Afler interiors i thought 1 would be getting him offers she said. But nothing happened. Well you know How this business is inscrutable accidental Chancy. Only if you Are stubborn enough and hang on Long enough can you