Geneviève Page
42 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 13, 1927
- Died
- Feb 14, 2025 (age 97)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Женевьева Паж · Geneviève Bonjean · Genevieve Page
Biography
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.
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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.
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Geneviève Page: movies and TV shows
Acting (44)
- 2003 Don't Worry, Be Happy
as Martha Loncle
- 2000 Mémoires en fuite
as Jeanne
- 1999 Lovers
as Alice
- 1992 Stranger in the House
as Bernadette
- 1991 Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
as Simone
- 1989 Dark Woods
as Nathalie Dupin
- 1987 Italian Postcards
as Silvana
- 1987 Beyond Therapy
as Zizi
- 1984
- 1983 Deadly Circuit
as Mrs. Schmitt-Boulanger
- 1979 Buffet Froid
as Geneviève Léonard
- 1973 December
as Béatrice de St-Mérand
- 1971 On the Lam
as Evremont
- 1971 Brother Carl
as Karen Sandler
- 1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
as Gabrielle Valadon
- 1969 A Talent for Loving
as Lady Butler
- 1968 Camille '68
as Camille
- 1968 Mayerling
as Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich
- 1968 Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
as Margot Beste-Chetwynde
- 1967
- 1967 Belle de Jour
as Madame Anais
- 1966 Grand Prix
as Monique Delvaux-Sarti
- 1966 Tender Scoundrel
as Béatrice Dumonceaux
- 1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan
as Yolande Combes
- 1965 The Majordomo
as Geneviève des Vallières
- 1964 Youngblood Hawke
as Frieda Winter
- 1963 The Reluctant Spy
as Ursula Keller
- 1963 The Day and the Hour
as Agathe
- 1962 La Nuit des rois
as Viola
- 1961 El Cid
as Princess Urraca
- 1960 Song Without End
as Countess Marie D'Agoult
- 1957 A Girl in a Pocket
as Edith
- 1957 Ambush in Tangier
as Mary
- 1956 Michael Strogoff
as Nadia Fedoroff
- 1956 The Silken Affair
as Genevieve Gerard
- 1956 Foreign Intrigue
as Dominique Danemore
- 1955 Cherchez la femme
as Barbara Van Looren
- 1954 Nuits andalouses
as Dominique de Bellecombe
- 1954 Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as Donata
- 1953 Lettre ouverte
as Colette Simonet
- 1952 Pleasures of Paris
as Violette / Denise
- 1952
- 1952 Fan-Fan the Tulip
as Marquise de Pompadour
- 1950 No Pity for Women
as Carole de Norbois
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 1972 Midi trente
1 episode
- 1956 Cinépanorama
2 episodes
- 1954 Reflets de Cannes
1 episode
- 1950