Celebrity Biographies
Genevieve Page
A great lady of interpretation, she has worked with legendary directors such as Luis Buñuel and Billy Wilder. Geneviève Page, distinguished by her very personal voice, conquered Hollywood, but she has always preferred to work for a few spectators, in the theater. She has plenty of her talent, if she is not considered an icon on the screen it is due to her extreme discretion, and because she has not given herself to appear in frivolous interviews, where she was asked if she was in favor of the bikini ; in fact it is difficult to find his statements to the media of any kind.
Born on December 13, 1927 in the capital of the Seine, Geneviève Bonjean, later known as Geneviève Page, is the daughter of art collector Jacques Paul Bonjean; Her christening godfather was the designer Christian Dior. Determined to be an actress even if she had to work very hard to achieve it, she studied at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in her hometown. She demonstrated intelligence by fighting to make her debut on the stage with the Comédie-Française, since there is no better way to establish herself in France than by joining the company founded by Molière .
Without ever leaving the theater, where he feels happiest, he made his debut on the big screen in 1950 with the French thriller Pas de pitié pour les femmes . But she had a greater impact in the adventure classic Fanfán el invincible , by Christian-Jaque , where she played a marquise. She also starred in Andalusian Nights , as a Frenchwoman who travels to Spain to recover her family inheritance, and Miguel Strogoff , where she played Nadia Fédor, the girl the tsar’s courier helps reunite with her mother.
Her career really began to take off in the 1960s, when after the international impact of these titles from the previous decade, she was recruited for Hollywood productions, which had set its sights on refined European beauties. In the first place, she stars with Robert Mitchum in the thriller Foreign Intrigue , followed by Dream of Love , a biopic of the pianist Franz Liszt, where she was a noblewoman. In Anthony Mann ‘s El Cid , where she shared the screen with Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren , she played Doña Urraca, sister of King Sancho, whom the Campeador so devotedly served. Delmer Daves bet heavily on her with the dramaA woman waits , which against the odds was a loud bump. Even so, she would shoot some more films in the United States, such as Mayerling , where she played the baroness in love with Archduke Rudolf ( Omar Sharif ). In The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes , by her self-professed admirer Billy Wilder , she played Gabrielle Valladon, the enigmatic villain, and was part of the distinguished international cast of Grand Prix , with James Garner , Eva Marie Saint , Yves Montand and Toshiro Mifune .
Married in 1959 to Jean-Claude Bujard, she had three children with him and has never caused scandals. She never stopped filming in her country, the most outstanding French film of hers would be Belle de jour , by the Spanish Luis Buñuel , where she played Madame Anais, in charge of the brothel where the protagonist, Catherine Deneuve, decides to practice prostitution .
Well-off in the theater, since the 70s she has hardly lavished herself on the cinema, except in a few titles in which she has been interested in participating occasionally, although almost none have had an impact. The exceptions may have been Three on a Couch , a failed comedy directed by Robert Altman , and Lovers , directed in 1999 by Jean-Marc Barr . She withdrew completely after Rien que du bonheur , a drama that did not have much luck, directed in 2003 by Denis Parent. Lost success among moviegoers, she has not abandoned him on stage, sweeping above all with the stage version of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant , by RW Fassbinder ., where she was the leading actress. She received the Legion of Honor, awarded by the French government, on December 31, 2013.