Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91
Posted: Monday, July 18th, 2005 6:18 pmGeraldine Fitzgerald, who appeared in such 1930s films as “Dark Victory” and “Wuthering Heights” and later had a career on the New York stage, died Sunday in Manhattan of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 91.
The Irish-born actress received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Isabella Linton in “Wuthering Heights” (1939), appearing with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in director William Wyler’s screen version of the Emily Bronte novel.
That same year she also starred with Bette Davis, George Brent and Humphrey Bogart in tearjerker “Dark Victory.” Fitzgerald had a tumultuous career at Warner Bros. in the 1940s, refusing roles and being placed on suspension by the studio. Yet during that decade she managed to appear in such films as “Shining Victory,” “The Gay Sisters,” “Watch on the Rhine” and film noir gem “Nobody Lives Forever” starring John Garfield.
In later years, she appeared as a character actress in such movies as “Ten North Frederick,” “The Pawnbroker,” “Rachel, Rachel,” “Harry and Tonto,” “Arthur” and “Easy Money.” …
Among her New York stage appearances were roles in several Eugene O’Neill revivals, most notably as Mary Tyrone in a 1971 off-Broadway production of “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” which starred Robert Ryan. In 1977, she starred with Jason Robards in a revival of O’Neill’s “A Touch of the Poet.”
Fitzgerald also developed a nightclub act… Read full obituary
