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Geneviève Page

AKA: Женевьева Паж
Birthday: 1927-12-13
Died: 2025-02-14
Birthplace: Paris, France


Geneviève Bonjean (13 December 1927 – 14 February 2025), known professionally as Geneviève Page, was a French actress with a film career spanning fifty years and also numerous English-speaking film productions. She was the daughter of French art collector Jacques Paul Bonjean (1899–1990). Page was born in Paris on 13 December 1927, to a family of aesthetes, like her father Jacques Bonjean, who collected art from 17th century France, and her mother Germaine (born Lipman) Bonjean. Her mother's family was Jewish, and had founded LIP. At the age of six, her godfather Christian Dior played the piano with Page's mother, and talked to Page about talking to adults. She recalls, "He had no money at the time, and drew hats for big houses. He had lunch every other day at home and played the piano, with my mother in my room, with four hands. I took refuge in the bathroom to learn my lessons." At the age of twelve, Page read some works by Voltaire, and to her mother's surprise, her father replied "If she can't read Voltaire, she can't read anyone." Despite this, she was a very talented young girl, playing Musset at Théâtre National Populaire and entering the Conservatory. Her film début was in Pas de pitié pour les femmes (1951), followed by Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), in which she played Madame de Pompadour alongside Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida. Later, she appeared in Italian, French, British, and American films. She co-starred with Robert Mitchum and Ingrid Thulin in Foreign Intrigue (1956), Dirk Bogarde and Capucine in Song Without End (1960), Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in El Cid (1961), and was seen in Grand Prix (1966) with James Garner, and Belle de Jour (1967), with Catherine Deneuve and directed by Luis Buñuel. She appeared with Deneuve again when she played Countess Larisch in Mayerling (1968), also co-starring with Ava Gardner and James Mason. Billy Wilder cast her as the mysterious widow in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) because the character she played used her sex appeal to manipulate Holmes. She appeared in Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy (1987) and continued to act until 2003. She acted in 1943 in Le Soulier de Satin and in Oh! Les Beaux Jours, both of which were directed by Jean-Louis Barrault Madeleine Renaud Co. Her theatre career continued in the 1980s and 1990s, with Les larmes amères de Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) (1980), La nuit des rois (Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare), La femme sur le lit (The Woman on the Bed, Franco Brusati) 1994, and Delicate Balance (1998). Page was educated at École du Louvre and Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Page was married to Jean-Claude Bujard from 1959 until his death on 29 August 2011; the couple had two children. In an interview from 2013, she said she was having stewardship problems in her house and that she was "not used to talking anymore". Page died in Paris on 14 February 2025, at the age of 97. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geneviève Page, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

Belle de Jour
Character: Madame Anais
Lovers
Character: Alice
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Gabrielle Valadon

Deadly Circuit
Character: Mrs. Schmitt-Boulanger
Fan-Fan the Tulip
Character: Marquise de Pompadour
Buffet Froid
Character: Geneviève Léonard

El Cid
Character: Princess Urraca
Foreign Intrigue
Character: Dominique Danemore
Dark Woods
Character: Nathalie Dupin

Beyond Therapy
Character: Zizi
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
Character: Donata
No Pity for Women
Character: Carole de Norbois

The Day and the Hour
Character: Agathe
Michael Strogoff
Character: Nadia Fedoroff
Pleasures of Paris
Character: Violette / Denise

Lettre ouverte
Character: Colette Simonet
Tender Scoundrel
Character: Béatrice Dumonceaux
Youngblood Hawke
Character: Frieda Winter

Song Without End
Character: Countess Marie D'Agoult
A Girl in a Pocket
Character: Edith
Three Rooms in Manhattan
Character: Yolande Combes

Le Majordome
Character: Geneviève des Vallières
The Reluctant Spy
Character: Ursula Keller
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
Character: Margot Beste-Chetwynde

Cherchez la femme
Character: Barbara Van Looren
Grand Prix
Character: Monique Delvaux-Sarti

On the Lam
Character: Evremont
Don't Worry, Be Happy
Character: Martha Loncle
Camille '68
Character: Camille

Ambush in Tangier
Character: Mary
Italian Postcards
Character: Silvana
A Talent for Loving
Character: Lady Butler

Mayerling
Character: Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich
The Century Is Fifty
Character: Self

December
Character: Béatrice de St-Mérand
Stranger in the House
Character: Bernadette
Brother Carl
Character: Karen Sandler

The Silken Affair
Character: Genevieve Gerard
Nuits andalouses
Character: Dominique de Bellecombe
Mémoires en fuite
Character: Jeanne