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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.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1913-11-24
- event Death Date 2005-07-17
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 18.7
- info Birth Place Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Geraldine Fitzgerald
7.3
Wuthering Heights
1939-04-07
6
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986-05-23
7.2
The Pawnbroker
1965-04-20
0
Ah, Wilderness!
1976-10-13
5.1
Blood Link
1982-10-15
5.6
The Last American Hero
1973-07-27
6.2
Nobody Lives Forever
1946-11-01
5.5
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988-07-08
7
Dark Victory
1939-04-20
6.5
Arthur
1981-07-17
6.3
Three Strangers
1946-01-28
6.3
Bye Bye Monkey
1978-02-24
7
Harry and Tonto
1974-08-12
6.6
Rachel, Rachel
1968-08-26
6.3
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945-08-17
6.8
Watch on the Rhine
1943-08-27
6.3
So Evil My Love
1948-08-02
6.1
Easy Money
1983-08-19
5.5
Wilson
1944-08-01
6.5
The Gay Sisters
1942-08-01
6.4
O.S.S.
1946-05-26
0
Beyond the Horizon
1975-07-17
5.6
Echoes of a Summer
1976-02-06
7.2
Ten North Frederick
1958-05-22
7
Diary of the Dead
1976-01-01
3.7
Lovespell
1981-12-31
6.4
The Late Edwina Black
1951-03-31
6.2
'Til We Meet Again
1940-04-20
5.2
Flight from Destiny
1941-02-08
7
Turn of the Tide
1935-06-08
5.7
The Ace of Spades
1935-02-09
5.9
Shining Victory
1941-05-30
0
Do You Remember Love
1985-05-21
6.5
A Child Is Born
1939-12-07
6
The Lad
1935-02-27
4
The Mill on the Floss
1937-01-09
0
The Quinns
1977-07-01
0
Me
1973-11-28
6
Yesterday's Child
1977-02-03
5.9
Bump in the Night
1991-01-06
3.5
Ladies Courageous
1944-02-02
0
The Mango Tree
1977-12-13
5
The Fiercest Heart
1961-04-30
0
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1974-05-08
0
Forget-Me-Not Lane
1975-03-12
6.7
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
1986-10-12
6
Department Store
1935-10-06
5.7
Open All Night
1934-01-01
0
Tartuffe
1978-05-31
0
Debt of Honour
1936-11-02
0
Cafe Mascot
1936-07-01
0
Three Witnesses
1935-03-01
0
Pontius Pilate
1952-04-07
0
Dark Possession
1954-02-15
3.5
Dixie: Changing Habits
1983-02-16
4.5
Night of Courage
1987-01-12
7.3
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983-11-02
0
Blind Justice
1935-03-04
0
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
1980-03-03
5
Dick Francis: Twice Shy
1989-12-14
0
The Moon and Sixpence
1959-10-30
5.4
St. Elsewhere
1982-10-26
7.6
The Golden Girls
1985-09-14
6.8
Chalk
1997-02-20
5.3
Naked City
1958-09-30
6.9
Cagney & Lacey
1982-03-25
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
2.7
Climax!
1954-10-07
4.3
Suspense
1949-01-06
4.4
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
6.2
The Defenders
1961-09-16
0
The Best Of Everything
1970-03-30
5
Nurse
1981-04-02
5.3
Naked City
1958-09-30
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
5.9
Kennedy
1983-11-20
4.5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973-04-02
4.4
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
6.8
A Year in the Life
1987-09-16
4.3
Suspense
1949-01-06
6.3
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-09-23
7.6
The Golden Girls
1985-09-14
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28
4.9
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01