Geraldine Fitzgerald Overview:

Legendary actress, Geraldine Fitzgerald, was born on Nov 24, 1913 in Dublin, Ireland. Fitzgerald appeared in over 85 film and TV roles. Her best known films include Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, and Watch on the Rhine. Fitzgerald died at the age of 91 on Jul 17, 2005 in New York City, NY and was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetary Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

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Fitzgerald went to Hollywood after a start in British films, but her ideals were too high for Warner Brothers, who suspended her a number of times for refusing roles, and her film career stuttered to a halt in the late forties. Later, Fitzgerald became a barnstorming character actress and nightclub singer.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Fitzgerald was nominated for one Oscar, she never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1939Best Supporting ActressWuthering Heights (1939)IsabellaNominated
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. In addition, Fitzgerald was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame .

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Geraldine Fitzgerald Quotes:

Isabella: If Cathy died... I might begin to live.


Heathcliff: Why are your eyes always empty? Like Linton's eyes.
Isabella: They're not empty, if you'd only look deeper. Look at me. I'm pretty. I'm a woman and I love you. You're all of life to me. Let me be a single breath of it for you.


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Received critical kudos for her role as Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on Broadway in 1971 opposite Robert Ryan.

Longtime friend of Anne Shirley, who attended a taping of Geraldine's guest appearance on "The Golden Girls" (1985).

Due to her combative nature and refusal to appear in several Warner Bros. pictures, studio head Jack L. Warner would not allow her to take on the Mary Astor role in the classic The Maltese Falcon (1941) starring Humphrey Bogart.

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