Geraldine Page and Sweet Bird of Youth
Geraldine Page as the famed actress Alexandra Del Lago in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth Recently I was reading excerpts from the book Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr, and I stumbled across some passages detailing actress Geraldine Page's involvement with one of Tennessee's most famous plays: Sweet Bird of Youth . As an avid fan of Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth AND Geraldine Page, I thought I'd dedicate a post to it. Geraldine Page, lovingly nicknamed Gerry by those who knew her, was no stranger to Tennessee Williams before her involvement in Sweet Bird . In 1952 she had starred in a revival of Williams' play Summer and Smoke , playing the lead role of Alma Winemiller so wonderfully, her performance was labelled legendary, and she reprised it again for a radio adaptation and the film version, which earned her an Academy Award nomination. It was with her brilliant performance as Alma in mind that Elia Kazan, d...