Geraldine Fitzgerald

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Geraldine Fitzgerald (born November 24, 1913 in Dublin , Ireland , † July 17, 2005 in New York City , USA ) was an Irish-American actress .

Career

After her stage debut as a teenager in Ireland, Fitzgerald moved to New York in the 1930s, where she performed with Orson Welles, among others . After a series of Hollywood productions, she later returned to Broadway . Fitzgerald mostly played strong women. However, her career suffered from disputes with the superiors of her film studio Warner Bros.

She celebrated her greatest success as Isabella Linton in the classic film Sturmhöhe , for which she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1940 . In her further career she played alongside Hollywood greats such as Laurence Olivier , Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis .

Fitzgerald was married to songwriter Edward Lindsay Hogg from 1936 to 1946 and to Stuart Scheftel from 1946 to 1994. In the last years of her life, the actress suffered from Alzheimer's . Geraldine Fitzgerald left a son from the first marriage, the director Michael Lindsay-Hogg , and a daughter from the second marriage.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Geraldine Fitzgerald  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Fitzgerald, Geraldine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2005
Place of death New York City , New York , United States