Geneviève Page

Geneviève Page was a French actress who worked in film for about fifty years and appeared frequently in English-language productions. Born in Paris in 1927, she entered the Conservatory and acted on stage in 1943 in Le Soulier de Satin and Oh! Les Beaux Jours, both directed by the Jean-Louis Barrault Madeleine Renaud company. Her first film was Pas de pitié pour les femmes in 1951, and she played Madame de Pompadour in Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952). She went on to work in Italian, French, British, and American productions, co-starring in Foreign Intrigue (1956), El Cid (1961), and Grand Prix (1966) with James Garner, and she appeared with Catherine Deneuve in Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour (1967). She played Countess Larisch in Mayerling (1968), and for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Billy Wilder picked her to play the mysterious widow. Her later credits included Beyond Therapy (1987), a film by Robert Altman, and she kept acting until 2003.