Geraldine Fitzgerald

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She was born south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith Catherine and Edward Martin FitzGerald. She studied painting at the Dublin School of Art. Inspired by her aunt, and began her acting career in at Dublin's Gate Theatre. After two seasons in Dublin, she moved to London, where she found success in films The Mill on the Floss, The Turn of the Tide, and Cafe Mascot. Fitzgerald's success led her to the Broadway stage in 1938. She made her American debut in the Mercury Theatre production of Heartbreak House. Producer Hal B. Wallis saw her in this production and subsequently signed her to a contract with Warner Bros, where she starred in Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights. Afterwards, appeared in Shining Victory, The Gay Sisters, and Watch on the Rhine, but her career was hampered by her frequent clashes with studio management. Although she continued to work throughout the 1940s, the quality of her roles began to diminish and her career lost momentum. In 1946, shortly after completing work on Three Strangers, she left Hollywood to return to New York City, where she married her second husband, Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of Isidor Straus. She returned to Britain to film So Evil My Love, receiving strong reviews, and The Late Edwina Black, before returning to the United States. She became a naturalized United States citizen on April 18, 1955. The 1950s provided her with few opportunities in film, but during the 1960s she asserted herself as a character actor and her career enjoyed a revival. Among her successful films of this period were Ten North Frederick, The Pawnbroker, and Rachel, Rachel. Her later films included The Mango Tree, for which she received an Australian Film Institute Best Actress nomination, and Harry and Tonto, in a scene opposite Art Carney. She also starred in Arthur 1 and 2, miniseries Kennedy, Do You Remember Love, Easy Money, Poltergeist 2, as in Circle of Violence, a television film about elder abuse. Fitzgerald returned to stage acting, and won acclaim for her performance in the 1971 revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 1976, she performed as a cabaret singer with the show Streetsongs, recorded an album of the show for Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles label. She also achieved success as a theatre director; becoming one of the first women to receive a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play. While in New York, Fitzgerald collaborated with playwright and Franciscan brother Jonathan Ringkamp to found the Everyman Theater of Brooklyn, a street theater company, that performed throughout the city. She appeared on television, in such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Robert Montgomery Presents, Naked City, St. Elsewhere, The Golden Girls, and Cagney and Lacey. As well, she starred in Our Private World, and Mabel and Max. She won a Daytime Emmy Award as best actress for her appearance in the NBC Special Treat episode "Rodeo Red and the Runaways". Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Fitzgerald, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1913-11-24
Place of Birth: Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
Also Known As: First Lady of the American Theater, Gerry

Movies List of Geraldine Fitzgerald

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Wuthering Heights

1939 Movie
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The Pawnbroker

1965 Movie
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Ah, Wilderness!

1976 Movie
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Blood Link

1982 Movie
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Nobody Lives Forever

1946 Movie
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Dark Victory

1939 Movie
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Arthur

1981 Movie
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Three Strangers

1946 Movie
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Bye Bye Monkey

1978 Movie
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Harry and Tonto

1974 Movie
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Rachel, Rachel

1968 Movie
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Watch on the Rhine

1943 Movie
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So Evil My Love

1948 Movie
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Easy Money

1983 Movie
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Wilson

1944 Movie
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The Gay Sisters

1942 Movie
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O.S.S.

1946 Movie
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Beyond the Horizon

1975 Movie
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Echoes of a Summer

1976 Movie
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Ten North Frederick

1958 Movie
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Diary of the Dead

1976 Movie
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Lovespell

1981 Movie
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The Late Edwina Black

1951 Movie
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'Til We Meet Again

1940 Movie
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Flight from Destiny

1941 Movie
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Turn of the Tide

1935 Movie
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The Ace of Spades

1935 Movie
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Shining Victory

1941 Movie
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Do You Remember Love

1985 Movie
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A Child Is Born

1939 Movie
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The Lad

1935 Movie
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The Mill on the Floss

1937 Movie
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The Quinns

1977 Movie
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Me

1973 Movie
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Yesterday's Child

1977 Movie
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Bump in the Night

1991 Movie
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Ladies Courageous

1944 Movie
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The Mango Tree

1977 Movie
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The Fiercest Heart

1961 Movie
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Forget-Me-Not Lane

1975 Movie
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Department Store

1935 Movie
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Open All Night

1934 Movie
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Tartuffe

1978 Movie
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Debt of Honour

1936 Movie
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Cafe Mascot

1936 Movie
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Three Witnesses

1935 Movie
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Pontius Pilate

1952 Movie
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Dark Possession

1954 Movie
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Night of Courage

1987 Movie
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Blind Justice

1935 Movie
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The Moon and Sixpence

1959 Movie