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Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page: A Daughter's Memoir
An intimate examination of Oscar Award-winning film and stage actress Geraldine Page, written with compassion and honesty by her only daughter, Angelica Page.
Geraldine Page was a legendary screen and stage actress, four-time Tony nominee and eight-time Oscar nominee, finally winning an Oscar for her ethereal performance in The Trip to Bountiful in 1986. Early readers are raving about BOUNTIFUL:
“Be warned, this book is dangerous; it can make you regret never having lived through the thrilling, dangerous times Geraldine Page lived in and partly created . . . She is an important reminder of the potential of the individual, in art and in life.” —F. Murray Abraham, actor
“A definitive memoir by a brilliant actress about a truly beloved American actress, mother and hero.” —Elizabeth Ashley, actress
“Supercharged with boundless talent, emotion and at times unrequited love, Angelica Page’s portrait of the great Geraldine is one for the ages.” —Sandra Bernhard, actress
“Honest, intimate and mesmerizing." —Will Patton, actor
In BOUNTIFUL, Angelica Page offers an intimate and unfiltered look at her mother’s remarkable career. From backstage childhood memories to encounters with cultural icons, her memoir is both a cultural history and a deeply personal coming-of-age story. Key points about BOUNTIFUL:
• First biography of Academy Award-winning actress Geraldine Page: Offers intimate, never-before-shared insights into the life of a legendary actress.
• Dual Coming-of-Age Story: Explores Angelica’s and Geraldine’s formative years across Depression-era Chicago, Broadway’s golden age, and 1970s New York.
• Inside Look Broadway and The Actors Studio: A rare insider look at mid-20th-century American theater.
• Mother-Daughter Legacy: A heartfelt narrative about love, resilience, and artistic inheritance.
• Cultural and Theatrical History: Blends memoir with social and performing arts history, appealing to general readers, theater fans, and libraries
Angelica Page is an American actress, director, producer, and writer and the only daughter of legendary actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. She has appeared frequently onstage on- and off-Broadway, earning an Outer Critic’s Circle nomination for best Solo Performance, the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress, and the New York People’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in numerous films and television programs and self penned the critically acclaimed one-woman show Turning Page which this book is based on.
Bountiful: Growing up with Geraldine Page is the first book about the legendary artist, presenting a one-of-a-kind look at her body of work and private life, with insider stories of her stage and film career (she was nominated for four Tony Awards and eight Academy Awards, finally winning an Oscar for her ethereal performance in A Trip to Bountiful), her relationships with other renowned actors including her husband and Angelica’s father Rip Torn, Actors Studio founder Lee Strasberg, and her interactions with legends such as James Dean, John Wayne, Jackie Kennedy, and many more.
Angelica Page, daughter of Geraldine and Rip Torn, skillfully weaves in stories of her own coming of age: being mesmerized by her mother’s stage performances as a child and a rebellious young adult; learning to swim in Grace Slick’s guitar-shaped pool; hanging out with Twiggy in London; enduring a chaotic home life with frequent fights between her mother and father that drove her from home to the 1980s punk rock scene of CBGBs, Max’s Kansas City, and the Mudd Club. This is as much a theatrical history lesson as a first person survival guide to life in the fast lane. A love song sung by the daughter of a remarkable artist who should not be forgotten any time soon. Includes more than 40 photos from family archives.
Angelica Page is an American actress, director, producer, and writer and the only daughter of legendary actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. She has appeared frequently onstage on- and off-Broadway, earning an Outer Critic’s Circle nomination for best Solo Performance, the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress, and the New York People’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in numerous films and television programs and self penned the critically acclaimed one-woman show Turning Page which this book is based on.
Geraldine Page was a legendary screen and stage actress, four-time Tony nominee and eight-time Oscar nominee, finally winning an Oscar for her ethereal performance in The Trip to Bountiful in 1986. Early readers are raving about BOUNTIFUL:
“Be warned, this book is dangerous; it can make you regret never having lived through the thrilling, dangerous times Geraldine Page lived in and partly created . . . She is an important reminder of the potential of the individual, in art and in life.” —F. Murray Abraham, actor
“A definitive memoir by a brilliant actress about a truly beloved American actress, mother and hero.” —Elizabeth Ashley, actress
“Supercharged with boundless talent, emotion and at times unrequited love, Angelica Page’s portrait of the great Geraldine is one for the ages.” —Sandra Bernhard, actress
“Honest, intimate and mesmerizing." —Will Patton, actor
In BOUNTIFUL, Angelica Page offers an intimate and unfiltered look at her mother’s remarkable career. From backstage childhood memories to encounters with cultural icons, her memoir is both a cultural history and a deeply personal coming-of-age story. Key points about BOUNTIFUL:
• First biography of Academy Award-winning actress Geraldine Page: Offers intimate, never-before-shared insights into the life of a legendary actress.
• Dual Coming-of-Age Story: Explores Angelica’s and Geraldine’s formative years across Depression-era Chicago, Broadway’s golden age, and 1970s New York.
• Inside Look Broadway and The Actors Studio: A rare insider look at mid-20th-century American theater.
• Mother-Daughter Legacy: A heartfelt narrative about love, resilience, and artistic inheritance.
• Cultural and Theatrical History: Blends memoir with social and performing arts history, appealing to general readers, theater fans, and libraries
Angelica Page is an American actress, director, producer, and writer and the only daughter of legendary actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. She has appeared frequently onstage on- and off-Broadway, earning an Outer Critic’s Circle nomination for best Solo Performance, the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress, and the New York People’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in numerous films and television programs and self penned the critically acclaimed one-woman show Turning Page which this book is based on.
Bountiful: Growing up with Geraldine Page is the first book about the legendary artist, presenting a one-of-a-kind look at her body of work and private life, with insider stories of her stage and film career (she was nominated for four Tony Awards and eight Academy Awards, finally winning an Oscar for her ethereal performance in A Trip to Bountiful), her relationships with other renowned actors including her husband and Angelica’s father Rip Torn, Actors Studio founder Lee Strasberg, and her interactions with legends such as James Dean, John Wayne, Jackie Kennedy, and many more.
Angelica Page, daughter of Geraldine and Rip Torn, skillfully weaves in stories of her own coming of age: being mesmerized by her mother’s stage performances as a child and a rebellious young adult; learning to swim in Grace Slick’s guitar-shaped pool; hanging out with Twiggy in London; enduring a chaotic home life with frequent fights between her mother and father that drove her from home to the 1980s punk rock scene of CBGBs, Max’s Kansas City, and the Mudd Club. This is as much a theatrical history lesson as a first person survival guide to life in the fast lane. A love song sung by the daughter of a remarkable artist who should not be forgotten any time soon. Includes more than 40 photos from family archives.
Angelica Page is an American actress, director, producer, and writer and the only daughter of legendary actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. She has appeared frequently onstage on- and off-Broadway, earning an Outer Critic’s Circle nomination for best Solo Performance, the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress, and the New York People’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in numerous films and television programs and self penned the critically acclaimed one-woman show Turning Page which this book is based on.
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334 pages, Hardcover
Published October 6, 2026
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June 23, 2026I can't wait for this book to be realeased!
October 12, 2026
Well now, the marginally talented and skimpily sane daughter of Geraldine Page and Rip Torn has released a memoir about her family and about her. I will be the first to agree that Page and Torn deserve study, but Angelica forces us to read long passages of her uninteresting life. All that is interesting about Angelica's life is that she is the daughter of talented people, but this is a book of self-aggrandizement and axe-grinding. Her anger at not being a better actress and a known actress leads her to take potshots at Ellen Burstyn, Uta Hagen, and Herbert Berghof, and not one of her allegations has a shred of documentation or a whiff of veracity.
If you are going to slander a writer (whom you previously praised and whose work you persistently shared), then why use one of his quotes? Because you WANT it to be true? This is specious and sloppy. Speaking of sloppy, Angelica's dear friend and a provider of a blurb on this odious book is Elizabeth Ashley. Angelica tells us she was inspired sitting in Ashley's apartment beneath the Tony Award she won for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," except that she won it for "Take Her, She's Mine." Rip Torn's wife--the talented and Tony-winning Ann Wedgeworth--is repeatedly referred to as "Anne." (I mean, you share step-siblings with this woman.) The producer--famed--is listed as Hal B. Wallice, when his name is Hal B. Wallis. Tab Hunter never received an Emmy nomination, even with the inspiration of Geraldine Page. Dates are wrong, names are misspelled, and every jab she takes at others is merely her toxic word. Angelica claims to strive for truth and meaning, and she went over everything written or said about her mother, but there is little seeming truth in this book. Given that Angelica is touring in a one-woman play about her mother, this is merely a promotional device to make her somewhat relevant, although on a firm D-list of performing arts.
Geraldine Page was a great actress, and she is rightly revered. She has been badly served by her only daughter with a mean, poorly written book that ultimately reveals very little about her mother or the craft of acting.
Some good news: This poorly produced book is from a small, unknown press with no reputation for good and thorough work, so it will disappear.
The book opens with a quotation from Rumi. Rumi! Ah, you think, this must be a book written by someone of a spiritual bent, but you then are steeped in bile and gossip and rage. The Rumi bumper sticker has been plastered on a rusty old car that just won't run, and which no one is interested in buying. It's out on an old, dusty Mexican road, filled with vultures and jackals.
Great job, Angelica. See you at your next gig at some carnival.
If you are going to slander a writer (whom you previously praised and whose work you persistently shared), then why use one of his quotes? Because you WANT it to be true? This is specious and sloppy. Speaking of sloppy, Angelica's dear friend and a provider of a blurb on this odious book is Elizabeth Ashley. Angelica tells us she was inspired sitting in Ashley's apartment beneath the Tony Award she won for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," except that she won it for "Take Her, She's Mine." Rip Torn's wife--the talented and Tony-winning Ann Wedgeworth--is repeatedly referred to as "Anne." (I mean, you share step-siblings with this woman.) The producer--famed--is listed as Hal B. Wallice, when his name is Hal B. Wallis. Tab Hunter never received an Emmy nomination, even with the inspiration of Geraldine Page. Dates are wrong, names are misspelled, and every jab she takes at others is merely her toxic word. Angelica claims to strive for truth and meaning, and she went over everything written or said about her mother, but there is little seeming truth in this book. Given that Angelica is touring in a one-woman play about her mother, this is merely a promotional device to make her somewhat relevant, although on a firm D-list of performing arts.
Geraldine Page was a great actress, and she is rightly revered. She has been badly served by her only daughter with a mean, poorly written book that ultimately reveals very little about her mother or the craft of acting.
Some good news: This poorly produced book is from a small, unknown press with no reputation for good and thorough work, so it will disappear.
The book opens with a quotation from Rumi. Rumi! Ah, you think, this must be a book written by someone of a spiritual bent, but you then are steeped in bile and gossip and rage. The Rumi bumper sticker has been plastered on a rusty old car that just won't run, and which no one is interested in buying. It's out on an old, dusty Mexican road, filled with vultures and jackals.
Great job, Angelica. See you at your next gig at some carnival.
October 16, 2026
This is egregious. I know the market is poor now for books on acting legends or anything about the theatre, but Geraldine Page deserves better. This is a messy, mean-spirited book.
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