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Biography
Geneviève Page (born Geneviève Bonjean, 13 December 1927, in Paris) is a leading French actress with a film career spanning fifty years. She is the daughter of Jacques Paul Bonjean (1899–1990), a well known French art-collector.
Career
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. Since then, she has appeared in French, Italian, 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. In 1968, she appeared with Deneuve again when she played Countess Larisch in Mayerling. In 1970, Billy Wilder cast her as the mysterious villain in his The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. She appeared in Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy (1987) and continued to act until 2003.
Selected Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Fanfan la Tulipe | Madame de Pompadour | Christian-Jaque |
| 1953 | Lettre ouverte | Colette Simonet | Alex Joffé |
| 1954 | L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard | Donata | Géza von Radványi |
| 1956 | Foreign Intrigue | Dominique Danemore | Sheldon Reynolds |
| The Silken Affair | Geneviève Gérard | Roy Kellino | |
| Michel Strogoff | Nadia Fédor | Carmine Gallone | |
| 1957 | Amour de poche | Édith | Pierre Kast |
| Trapped in Tangier | Mary Bolevasco | Riccardo Freda | |
| 1960 | Song Without End | Countess Marie | George Cukor and Charles Vidor |
| 1961 | El Cid | Princess Urraca | Anthony Mann |
| 1963 | The Day and the Hour | Agathe Dutheil | René Clément |
| The Reluctant Spy | Ursula Keller | Jean-Charles Dudrumet | |
| 1964 | Youngblood Hawke | Frieda Winter | Delmer Daves |
| 1965 | Le Majordome | Agnès des Vallières | Jean Delannoy |
| Three Rooms in Manhattan | Yolande Combes | Marcel Carné | |
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel | Béatrice Dumonceaux | Jean Becker |
| Grand Prix | Monique Delvaux-Sarti | John Frankenheimer | |
| 1967 | Belle de jour | Madame Anais | Luis Buñuel |
| 1968 | Mayerling | Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich | Terence Young |
| Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher | Margot | John Krish | |
| A Talent for Loving | Delphine | Richard Quine | |
| 1970 | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Gabrielle Valadon | Billy Wilder |
| 1979 | Buffet froid | Geneviève Léonard (the widow) | Bertrand Blier |
| 1982 | Mortelle randonnée | Madame Schmidt-Boulanger | Claude Miller |
| 1987 | Beyond Therapy | Zizi | Robert Altman |
| Italian Postcards | Silvana | Memè Perlini | |
| 1989 | Les Bois noirs | Nathalie Dupin | Jacques Deray |
| 1992 | L'Inconnu dans la maison | Bernadette | Georges Lautner |
Personal life
Page has been married to Jean-Claude Bujard since 1959 and they have two children.