27/04/2024
These images of Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, and James Baldwin reveal the great admiration they all held for each other--as people, as friends, as artists. Geraldine Page and Rip Torn fought for James Baldwin's play BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE, which appeared in 1964, through the Actors Studio Theatre, about a year after these photographs were taken. Geraldine Page also championed the talent of Diana Sands, a Black actress who would appear in BLUES FOR MR. CHARLIE and THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT on stage, and who was set to appear in the film "Claudine," but she died of a rare form of cancer in 1973, at the age of thirty-nine.
Patricia Bosworth said that Geraldine Page and Rip Torn were "great citizens of the world, artistic and otherwise. They fought for the right things."