Dear Heart is a 1964 American romantic-comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page as lonely middle-aged people who fall in love at a hotel convention. It was directed by Delbert Mann , from a screenplay by Tad Mosel . Its theme song " Dear Heart " was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song .
76-468: Evie Jackson ( Geraldine Page ) is a middle-aged, single postmaster from small-town Ohio who is attending a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel. Outgoing, honest, and somewhat tactless, she has many friends but pines for a romantic relationship, one that will be more meaningful than the flings she has had with married conventioneers in previous years. She uses various means to make herself feel less lonely and more important, such as sending herself
152-526: A 33% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 6 reviews. Geraldine Page Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an American actress. With a career which spanned four decades across film, stage, and television, Page was the recipient of numerous accolades , including an Academy Award , a British Academy Film Award , two Primetime Emmy Awards , and two Golden Globe Awards , as well as nominations for four Tony Awards . A native of Kirksville, Missouri , Page studied at
228-873: A Big Boy Now (1966), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), Interiors (1978), and The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). She is also known for her film roles What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), The Beguiled (1971) and The Rescuers (1977). On stage, she made her Broadway debut in the 1953 play Mid-summer . She went on to received Tony Award nominations for her performances as Princess Kosmonopolis in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Marion in Absurd Person Singular (1974), Mother Miriam Ruth in Agnes of God (1982), and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit (1987). For her prolific work onstage she
304-588: A Dan Dailey picture called Taxi , which was filmed in New York." Page was blacklisted in Hollywood after her debut in Hondo based on her association with Uta Hagen and did not work in film for nearly ten years. Her work continued on Broadway playing a spinster in the 1954–1955 production of The Rainmaker , written by N. Richard Nash ; and as the frustrated wife whose husband becomes romantically obsessed with
380-399: A beard (which, it is later revealed, got him expelled from boarding school). Harry is mildly annoyed by Patrick's unexpected arrival and embarrassed by his casual attitude toward women, sex, and nudity, particularly after Patrick moves into Harry's hotel room with his purportedly platonic female friend Émile Zola Bernkrand (Joanna Crawford). Evie first meets Harry when they are forced to share
456-671: A celebrated film-within-a-film sequence in which the protagonist is inducted into the Parallax Corporation, whose main, although secret, enterprise is domestic terrorism. Finally, in 1976, Pakula rounded out the "trilogy" with All the President's Men , based on the bestselling account of the Watergate scandal written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein , played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman , respectively. It
532-491: A dinner table in the crowded hotel restaurant, but Harry is more interested in buxom blonde June Loveland ( Barbara Nichols ), a clerk in the hotel gift shop, than he is in the overly friendly Evie, and he quickly makes an excuse to leave for a tryst with June. Returning to the hotel, Harry meets Evie again in the lobby, where she is upset after escaping from the unwanted sexual advances of a strange man outside her room. Harry escorts her back to her room, and they make plans to go to
608-429: A father figure to Patrick so she won't have to deal with him and his teenage problems. Harry realizes that he truly loves Evie and that Patrick and Phyllis need to spend more time with each other rather than with him. He breaks his engagement and happily reunites with Evie at the busy train station just before she would have returned home. Dear Heart was written by Tad Mosel, from his own story. He originally wrote it as
684-523: A hat-check girl, theater usher, lingerie model, and a factory laborer. Page, a trained method actor , spent five years appearing in various repertory theater productions in the Midwest and New York after graduating from college. On October 25, 1945, she made her New York stage debut in Seven Mirrors , a play devised by Immaculate Heart High School students from Los Angeles . The play ran for
760-681: A nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Also in 1983, Sabra Jones Strasberg and her husband John Strasberg founded the Mirror Theater Ltd and invited Page to accept the role of Founding Artist in Residence for its repertory program the Mirror Repertory Company. Page remained continually active in theater, appearing in numerous repertory, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions throughout
836-672: A pianist or visual artist, but at 17 she appeared in her first amateur theatre production, and from that point, she never wavered from her desire to be a professional actress. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945, Page studied acting at the Herbert Berghof School and the American Theatre Wing in New York City, studying with Uta Hagen for seven years, and then at
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#1732798110146912-713: A production in which she starred opposite her husband Rip Torn (in the role of Benjamin Hubbard) directed by Philip Minor. It was staged for the Academy Festival Theater at Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois and received a rave review from William Leonard of the Chicago Tribune : "Geraldine Page is giving one of the greatest performances of her glorious career in Lake Forest and she
988-477: A production which also included Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave , who were making their Broadway debuts. The same year, she appeared opposite Fred MacMurray in the Walt Disney -produced musical The Happiest Millionaire . Bosley Crowther of The New York Times was critical of the film, noting: "Geraldine Page and Gladys Cooper ...square off in one musical scene of socially up-staging each other that
1064-472: A revival of Summer and Smoke in 1952 putting herself, the play, and director Jose Quintero at the beginning of the Off-Broadway scene. Page played the same role of Alma Winemiller in a 1953 radio version (opposite Richard Kiley ) and a film version in 1961 opposite Laurence Harvey . Both she and Una Merkel earned acting nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively in
1140-533: A supporting role in the miniseries The Dollmaker (1984), opposite Jane Fonda and Amanda Plummer . She appeared in the British horror film The Bride opposite Sting and Jennifer Beals ; the drama White Nights , directed by Taylor Hackford ; and opposite Rebecca De Mornay in the drama The Trip to Bountiful (all 1985), in which she played an aging Southern Texas woman seeking to return to her hometown. The role earned Page wide critical acclaim, with
1216-462: A teleplay for a May 1957 Westinghouse Studio One episode, titled "The Out-Of-Towners", co-starring E.G. Marshall and Eileen Heckart . The film had a budget of about $ 1.8 million. Principal shooting occurred from October 3 to November 22, 1963. Filming of the opening and closing scenes in Penn Station took advantage of just-commenced demolition process of the above-ground structures. It
1292-662: A total of 23 performances at Blackfriars Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's Upper East Side . In February 1952, director José Quintero cast Page in a minor role in Yerma , a theatrical interpretation of a poem by Federico García Lorca , staged at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City's Greenwich Village . Page was subsequently cast in the role of Alma in the Quintero-directed production of Summer and Smoke , written by Tennessee Williams (also staged at
1368-588: A total of four Tony Award nominations, and was referred to by the New York Daily News as "one of the finest stage actors of her generation". She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979. Sarah Paulson portrayed Page in the 2017 anthology television series Feud , which chronicles the rivalry between actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). She
1444-781: A week in Los Angeles (which, under Academy rules, would qualify it for the Oscars), if Mancini and Shayne would pay for the local advertising. Because this would cost only $ 10,000, Mancini and Shayne agreed to do so. The film premiered on December 3, 1964 in Los Angeles, to qualify it for the 1964 awards season. It made its general release premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 8, 1965. The film received little attention. Bosley Crowther , writing for The New York Times , called it "a stale, dull and humorless pretension at what its producers dare to describe as 'gay, sophisticated comedy,' and it makes almost scandalous misuse of
1520-414: A welcome message and having herself paged in the hotel lobby. Harry Mork ( Glenn Ford ) is a middle-aged, womanizing, former traveling salesman for a greeting card company, who now wishes to settle down. Harry has accepted a promotion to an office job in New York City, and has gotten engaged to Phyllis ( Angela Lansbury ), a middle-aged, widowed housewife from Altoona, Pennsylvania. Harry is staying alone in
1596-507: A young Arab, played by James Dean , in the 1954 production of The Immoralist , written by Augustus Goetz and Ruth Goetz and based on the novel of the same name (1902) by André Gide . Page remained friends with Dean until his death the following year and kept a number of personal mementos from the play—including several drawings by him. After Page's death, these items were acquired by Heritage Auctions in 2006. In 2015 Angelica Page revealed that her mother had an affair with Dean during
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#17327981101461672-462: Is drenched in perfumed vulgarity. But, then, the whole picture is vulgar. It is an over-decorated, over-fluffed, over-sentimentalized endeavor to pretend the lace-curtain millionaires are—or were—every bit as folksy as the old prize-fighters and the Irish brawlers in the saloon." Page starred opposite Ruth Gordon in the thriller What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), the third and final film in
1748-622: Is my middle name...Rip is wonderful. He does the cooking, and I do the eating. I love everything but eggplant." On June 13, 1987, Page failed to arrive at the Neil Simon Theatre for both the afternoon and evening performances of Noël Coward 's Blithe Spirit , which had begun its run in March. At the end of the show's evening performance, the play's producer announced that Page had been found dead in her lower Manhattan townhouse. It
1824-438: Is surrounded by a cast so superb that the Academy Festival Theater's production of "The Little Foxes" becomes a powerful, searing, unforgettable show... it is a harrowing and ennobling evening in the theater-the kind that comes along all too seldom. We have seen other stars in the role of the malevolently, ruthlessly scheming Regina Giddens— Tallulah Bankhead years ago in her greatest triumph, Eileen Herlie five seasons back at
1900-441: Is to relax and keep the doors open so that there's room if one should pop up." During her life, Page was regarded as a respected character actress . Speaking of her stage career in 1986, she said: "I used to think that by opening [night] all the work was done. Now I'm finding how much you can learn from the audience." She described acting as a "bottomless cup", adding, "If I studied for the next ninety years I'd just be scratching
1976-680: The Los Angeles Times referring to it as "the performance of a lifetime." In 1986, she appeared on Broadway in The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham ; during this production, Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Trip to Bountiful . During her acceptance speech, she thanked The Mirror Theater Ltd . Page wore her costume from The Circle , which had been designed and made by Gail Cooper-Hecht,
2052-575: The 1962 film adaptation of the same name and Page earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film. Geraldine Page actually won consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in 1961 and 1962 for Summer and Smoke and Sweet Bird of Youth , respectively. In 1963, Page starred in Toys in the Attic , based on Lillian Hellman 's play of
2128-569: The 34th Academy Awards in 1961. The awards, however, went to Sophia Loren for Two Women and Rita Moreno for West Side Story . In 1959, Page earned an Emmy nomination, of Best Single Performance by an Actress, for her role in the Playhouse 90 episode "The Old Man", written by William Faulkner . She subsequently earned critical accolades for her performance in the 1959–1960 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Paul Newman , in which she originated
2204-614: The Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg . During this time, Page would return to Chicago in the summers to perform in repertory theatre in Lake Zurich, Illinois , where she and several fellow actors had established their own independent theater company. She also spent two critically successful years performing with a winter stock company called the Woodstock Players another group from Goodman who performed mostly at
2280-681: The Art Institute of Chicago and with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg in New York City. During the McCarthyism era, she was blacklisted in Hollywood based on her association with Hagen and did not work in film for eight years. Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Trip to Bountiful (1985). She was Oscar-nominated for her work in Hondo (1953), Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), You're
2356-604: The Los Angeles Times : "If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it." In a 1964 interview after completing the Broadway run of The Three Sisters , Page discussed her method acting at length. When asked if she used emotional recall as a technique, she responded: "I would never shut it out. But I don't try to get one. My whole effort
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2432-641: The New Hollywood movement, his best-known works include his critically-acclaimed "paranoia trilogy": the neo-noir mystery Klute (1971), the conspiracy thriller The Parallax View (1974), and the Watergate scandal drama All the President's Men (1976). His other notable films included Comes a Horseman (1978), Starting Over (1979), Sophie's Choice (1982), Presumed Innocent (1990), and The Pelican Brief (1993). Pakula received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for All
2508-633: The Robert Aldrich -produced trilogy which followed What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). The film is based on the novel The Forbidden Garden by Ursula Curtiss and features Page as Claire Marrable, a recently widowed socialite, who, discovers that her husband has left her virtually nothing. The widow hires a number of unsuspecting housekeepers whom she murders one by one and robs them of their life savings in order to keep up her extravagant lifestyle. Writing for The New York Times , Vincent Canby deemed
2584-626: The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (her second Tony Award nomination) for the 1975 production of Alan Ayckbourn 's Absurd Person Singular with Sandy Dennis and Richard Kiley . She also had a supporting role as a charismatic Hollywood evangelist (modeled after Aimee Semple McPherson ) in The Day of the Locust (1975), an adaptation of the Nathanael West novel of
2660-491: The Woodstock Opera House where she was singled out by critic Claudia Cassidy of The Chicago Tribune as destined to be a star to bear watching. During that time she was called "the lady with the thousand faces" for her ability to change her looks and actions to an extent that her most devoted fans were unable to recognize her. While attempting to establish her career, she worked various odd jobs, including as
2736-499: The cartoon department at Warner Bros. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures . In 1962, he produced To Kill a Mockingbird , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture . Pakula had a successful professional relationship as the producer of movies directed by Mockingbird director Robert Mulligan from 1957 to 1968. In 1969, he directed his first feature, The Sterile Cuckoo , starring Liza Minnelli . In 1971, Pakula released
2812-475: The 1980s; this included roles in a revivals of Inheritors by Susan Glaspell and Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets in 1983, Rain by John Colton (based on the short story " Miss Thompson " by W. Somerset Maugham ) the following year. Further revivals followed in 1985: Vivat! Vivat Regina! by Robert Bolt (in which she played Elizabeth I ), Clarence by Booth Tarkington , and The Madwoman of Chaillot (by Jean Giraudoux ) in which she played
2888-671: The American School of Osteopathy, eventually to form A.T. Still University ). He was an author whose works included Practical Anatomy (1925), Osteopathic Fundamentals (1926), and The Old Doctor (1932). She had one younger brother, Donald. At age five, Page relocated with her family to Chicago . Raised a Methodist by her mother, Page was an active parishioner of the Englewood Methodist Church in Chicago, where she had her first foray into acting within
2964-718: The Circle Theatre in 1952). Page's role in Summer and Smoke garnered her significant exposure, including a Drama Desk Award , and a profile in Time magazine. Her official film debut and role in Hondo , opposite John Wayne , garnering her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Prior, she appeared in an uncredited role in Taxi . Speaking to a Kirksville newspaper, she said: "Actually Hondo wasn't my first movie. I had one small, but satisfactory scene in
3040-594: The Ivanhoe. Geraldine Page is a whole new story—I have seen Geraldine Page in innumerable roles, ever since she was playing in East Lynne with the Lake Zurich Players back in the '40s. I've never seen her more thrillingly convincing than in this production." The legendary Kim Stanley once said of Page's Regina that it "was possibly the finest performance" she had ever seen. received a nomination for
3116-466: The Madwoman to great acclaim). Page earned her seventh Academy Award nomination for her performance in the dark comedy The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984). This marked a record at the time for most Academy Award nominations without a win, for which Page was tied with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton (who themselves had also garnered seven nominations without winning). On television, Page had
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3192-605: The Mirror Theater's costume designer. She received the award from F. Murray Abraham , who, after winning his Oscar for Amadeus , also joined the Mirror Repertory Company to play the rag-picker in the Madwoman of Chaillot . Prior to winning the Academy Award, Page said to People magazine: "If I lose the Oscar this year, I'll have the record for the most nominations without ever winning... I'd love to be champion, [but
3268-459: The President's Men and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice . He was also nominated for Best Picture for producing To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Additionally, he was a BAFTA Award , Golden Globe Award , and Directors Guild of America Award nominee. Pakula's films often dealt with psychological and political themes. His New York Times obituary stated Pakula made "different kinds of movies, all of them intended to entertain, but
3344-462: The Statue of Liberty the next morning. However, the next morning, Patrick shows up again wanting to spend the day with Harry, so Harry breaks his date with Evie to look at apartments with Patrick and Zola. A disappointed Evie spends the day (after attending a postmaster seminar and party) with a trio of older spinster postmasters, but cheers up when Harry returns, proves that he left a message for her (at
3420-471: The church's theatre group, appearing in a play called Excuse My Dust, then playing Jo March in a 1941 production of Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women . After graduating from Chicago's Englewood Technical Prep Academy , she attended the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University ), with the intention of becoming an actress. Page had aspirations of becoming
3496-412: The early 1980s, Page and Torn lived separately after he started dating actress Amy Wright ; Torn had first met Wright in 1976 and began an affair shortly after. Page was aware of Torn and Wright's relationship, and appeared onstage opposite Wright in the 1977 Off-Broadway production of The Stronger , under Torn's direction. In 1983, Torn fathered a child with Wright. After the birth of the child, Page
3572-464: The fall of 1986, Page asked permission to return to Broadway in a revival of Noël Coward 's Blithe Spirit in the role of Madame Arcati. She was cast in the role, though the production would be Page's last. She was again nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, though she did not win. A week after the Tony Awards ceremony, Page failed to appear for two performances of the play and
3648-550: The film "an amusingly baroque horror story told by a master misogynist," and praised Page's "affecting" performance. Page subsequently appeared in the Don Siegel -directed thriller The Beguiled (1971) opposite Clint Eastwood , playing the headmistress of a Southern girls' boarding school who takes in a wounded Union soldier. Director Siegel called Page "certainly as fine an actor as I've ever worked with. I never have gotten along better with anyone than I did with her." This
3724-533: The first installment of what would informally come to be known as his " paranoia trilogy." Klute , the story of a relationship between a private eye (played by Donald Sutherland ) and a call girl (played by Jane Fonda , who won an Oscar for her performance), was a commercial and critical success. This was followed in 1974 by The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty , a labyrinthine post- Watergate thriller involving political assassinations. The film has been noted for its experimental use of hypnotic imagery in
3800-573: The front desk) about the change of plans, and offers to take her to dinner and show her the apartment he rented in Greenwich Village. Evie optimistically thinks Harry is planning to reveal that the apartment is intended for the two of them to occupy, and she is crushed when she realizes that Harry is planning to live there with his soon-to-be wife Phyllis. Harry takes Evie back to the hotel and impulsively kisses her, but Phyllis unexpectedly arrives from Altoona. So Harry goes to stay with her in
3876-399: The hotel across the street while Evie sadly arranges to return to Ohio the next day. Harry soon discovers that Phyllis does not want to live a happy, domestic life with him in the future in the old-fashioned apartment he rented. Instead, she wants to live in modern hotels with room service, where she won't have to cook or clean, and she wants to sleep in separate beds. She also wants Harry to be
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#17327981101463952-583: The interloper Natasha. Both Shirley Knight and Sandy Dennis played the youngest sister Irina at different stages in this production. Between 1966 and 1969, Page appeared in two holiday-themed television productions based on stories by Truman Capote : "The Christmas Memory" (for ABC Stage 67 ) and the television film The Thanksgiving Visitor , both of which earned her two consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Actress. In 1967, Page appeared again onstage in Peter Shaffer 's Black Comedy/White Lies ,
4028-525: The loser] doesn't have to get up there and make a fool of herself." After winning the Academy Award, Page returned to finish her run performing in The Circle for Mirror Theater and appeared opposite Carroll Baker , Oprah Winfrey , and Elizabeth McGovern in Native Son (1986). Page followed up Native Son with a lead role opposite Mary Stuart Masterson in My Little Girl (1987). In
4104-475: The production of The Immoralist . She stated, "According to my mother, their affair went on for three-and-a-half months. In many ways my mother never really got over Jimmy. It was not unusual for me to go to her dressing room through the years, obviously many years after Dean was gone, and find pictures of him taped up on her mirror. My mother never forgot about Jimmy -- never. I believe they were artistic soul mates." Prior to Hondo , in 1952, she appeared in
4180-405: The recognized talents of Geraldine Page." Eleanor Perry, writing for Life , felt that, although the film was aimed at average people, it was condescending and patronizing to them. Writing in 2008, Leonard Maltin felt it had "excellent characterizations" and a solid supporting cast. Film historians Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg felt Lansbury's performance was thoughtful. Dear Heart holds
4256-525: The role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a young hustler named Chance Wayne (played by Newman). For her performance, Page received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play , as well as the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Chicago . She and Newman subsequently starred in
4332-469: The same hotel as Evie while he starts his new job and finds an apartment, where Phyllis, who is still back in Altoona, will later join him. While Harry is checking in, Phyllis's son Patrick ( Michael Anderson Jr. ) suddenly arrives, seeking to bond with his new father. Harry is surprised to find that Patrick is not the young boy he had expected based on a photograph, but instead is an 18-year-old bohemian with
4408-531: The same name . In 1977, she appeared as a nun in the British comedy Nasty Habits , and provided the voice role of Madame Medusa in the Walt Disney animated film The Rescuers . During this time, she also appeared on television, guest-starring in the popular series Kojak (1976) and Hawaii Five-O (1977). Page appeared as the mother of three siblings and wife of a prominent attorney in Woody Allen 's Interiors (1978). For her performance, Page
4484-522: The same name, and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. She received another nomination the following year starring in Delbert Mann's Dear Heart as a self-sufficient but lonely postmistress visiting New York City for a convention, finding love with a greeting card salesman. In 1964, she starred in a Lee Strasberg-directed Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov 's Three Sisters playing eldest sister Olga to Kim Stanley 's Masha with Barbara Baxley as
4560-475: The surface." Page was married to violinist Alexander Schneider from 1954 to 1957. On September 8, 1963, she married actor Rip Torn , who was six years her junior, in Pinal, Arizona . They had played opposite one another in Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway and in the 1962 film . They had three children: a daughter, actress Angelica Page , and twin sons, Anthony "Tony" and Jonathan "Jon" Torn. Beginning in
4636-602: The thread connecting many of them was a style that emphasized and explored the psychology and motivations of his characters." He was the subject of the 2023 documentary, Alan Pakula: Going for Truth . Pakula was born in The Bronx , New York, to Polish Jewish parents, Jeanette (née Goldstein) and Paul Pakula. He was educated at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania , and Yale University , where he majored in drama. Pakula started his Hollywood career as an assistant in
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#17327981101464712-470: Was "The Out-of-Towners", but Jay Livingston said he changed the title to Dear Heart when Martin Manulis heard the theme song. Warner Brothers was uncertain about when to release the film. Mancini, who had a 50% interest in the film's theme song with Larry Shayne, asked studio head Jack L. Warner to release the film so that it would qualify for the March 1965 Academy Awards. Warner agreed to release it for
4788-472: Was Geraldine Page's first role as a leading lady. As production began, Glenn Ford's long-term relationship with actress Hope Lange was ending, and she married producer Alan Pakula , leaving Ford heartbroken. Although production of Dear Heart was generally a positive one, Ford could not stop brooding over Lange. Angela Lansbury took the role of the materialistic, good-hearted Phyllis because it gave her an opportunity to work with Geraldine Page. Henry Mancini
4864-443: Was a true rebel and trail blazer. A masterful woman who was ahead of her time and should not be forgotten anytime soon." The play premiered in Los Angeles in 2016, followed by performances in New York City in 2017. Academic resources Videography Alan Pakula Alan Jay Pakula ( / p ə ˈ k uː l ə / ; April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Associated with
4940-403: Was also portrayed by her daughter, Angelica Page , in the stage production Turning Page . A monologue play chronicling Page's life, it was also written by her daughter: "I grew up in the center of her sparkling career," Angelica recalled. "As her only daughter I feel compelled to share her lessons and gifts with others who did and did not have the opportunity to know her magic intimately. She
5016-485: Was another commercial hit, considered by many critics and fans to be one of the best thrillers of the 1970s. Pakula scored another hit in 1982 with Sophie's Choice , starring Meryl Streep . His screenplay, based on the novel by William Styron , was nominated for an Academy Award. Later commercial successes included Presumed Innocent , based on the bestselling novel by Scott Turow , and The Pelican Brief , an adaptation of John Grisham 's bestseller. His final film
5092-479: Was determined that she died of a heart attack . On June 18, "an overflow crowd of colleagues, friends and fans", including Sissy Spacek , James Earl Jones , Amanda Plummer , Jerry Stiller , Anne Meara and husband Torn attended a memorial service held at the Neil Simon Theatre. Highlighting Page's achievements, actress Anne Jackson said, "[Page] used a stage like no one else I'd ever seen. It
5168-443: Was followed by a supporting role in the comedy Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in three episodes of Rod Serling 's Night Gallery between 1972 and 1973. In January 1973, she returned to Broadway playing Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Maya Angelou in the two-character play Look Away , written by Jerome Kilty . In 1974, Page played Regina in
5244-508: Was found dead in her Manhattan home. The show lasted several weeks more, with Page's understudy Patricia Conolly taking over her role. If [other actors] have trained the way you've been trained there is at least the hope of communication. But wonderful actors are wonderful to act with–it doesn't matter how they've been trained. Page on acting, 1964 Page was trained as a method actor , and at times worked with psychoanalysts when developing her interpretations of roles. She once told
5320-436: Was hired to compose music for the film. Mancini felt such a gentle romantic film deserved a theme song. He quickly wrote music for the song, but it lacked lyrics. Mancini contacted Johnny Mercer , who was unavailable. So Mancini turned to Jay Livingston and Ray Evans . The lyricists read the script, and came up with the lyrics and title for the song based on their reading of Geraldine Page's character. The film's original title
5396-724: Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. For her roles in television she received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama for her acting in the adaptations of Truman Capote 's A Christmas Memory (1967) and The Thanksgiving Visitor (1969). Page was born November 22, 1924, in Kirksville, Missouri , the first child of Edna Pearl (née Maize) and Leon Elwin Page who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery (combined with
5472-520: Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame . Page starred as Zelda Fitzgerald in the last major Broadway production of a Williams play, Clothes for a Summer Hotel in 1980, followed by a supporting role in Harry's War (1981). Page starred as the secretive nun Mother Miriam Ruth in the Broadway production of Agnes of God , which opened in 1982 and ran for 599 performances with Page performing in nearly all of them; for her role, she received
5548-526: Was like playing tennis with someone who had 26 arms." Rip Torn called her "Mi corazón, mi alma, mi esposa" ("My heart, my soul, my wife") and said that they had "never stopped being lovers, and ... never will". Page was cremated . Page earned a total of eight nominations before winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1986 for The Trip to Bountiful . She was also a winner of two Golden Globe Awards , two Primetime Emmy Awards , and one BAFTA award. For her stage work on Broadway, Page earned
5624-499: Was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role . The New York Times ' s Vincent Canby lauded her performance in the film, writing: "Miss Page, looking a bit like a youthful Louise Nevelson with mink-lashed eyes, is marvelous — erratically kind, impossibly demanding, pathetic in her loneliness and desperate in her anger." The following year, in November 1979, Page
5700-434: Was questioned about her marriage by columnist Cindy Adams , to which she responded: "Of course Rip and I are still married. We've been married for years. We're staying married. What's the big fuss?" In spite of their separation, Page and Torn remained married until her death; her daughter described their relationship as still "close" up until Page died in 1987. Page considered herself a gourmand , once joking: "'Greedy Gut'
5776-587: Was the thriller The Devil's Own , where he reunited with Harrison Ford . From October 19, 1963, until 1971, Pakula was married to actress Hope Lange . He was married to his second wife, author Hannah Pakula (formerly Hannah Cohn Boorstin) from 1973 until his death in 1998. He had two stepchildren from his marriage with Hope Lange, Christopher and Patricia Murray, and three stepchildren from his second marriage. They are Louis, Robert, and Anna Boorstin. He also spoke very openly about his stepson's battle with depression before his death. On November 19, 1998, Pakula
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