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Geraldine Fitzgerald
Highest Rated: 96% Wuthering Heights (1939)
Lowest Rated: 13% Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
Birthday: Nov 24, 1913
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
A dark-haired classic beauty from the Dublin stage, Fitzgerald had appeared in several British films before making her Broadway debut in the 1938 Mercury Theater production of George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" and her Hollywood debut in "Dark Victory" (1939). She is perhaps best remembered for her splendid, Oscar-nominated supporting performance as Isabella, poignantly suffering the pangs of unrequited love, in William Wyler's adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" (1939). Off to a fine start in Hollywood, Fitzgerald played strong-willed women throughout the 1940s. Among her notable performances was as one of the eponymous characters in the highly intriguing "Three Strangers" (1946), in which she more than held her own opposite Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. After being put on suspension for protesting too many dull studio-chosen roles, though, Fitzgerald found that by the end of the decade her screen career had virtually petered out.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bump in the Night | Mrs. Beauchamps (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twice Shy | Mrs. O'Rourke (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 13% | 30% | Arthur 2: On the Rocks | Martha Bach (Character) | $14.1M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night of Courage | Abby Abelsen (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 20% | 35% | Poltergeist II | Gramma-Jess (Character) | $38.8M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Circle of Violence: A Family Drama | Charlotte Kessling (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Do You Remember Love | Lorraine Wyatt (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 16% | Blood Link | Mrs. Thomason (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dixie: Changing Habits | Sister Agnes (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 60% | 58% | Easy Money | Mrs. Monahan (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kennedy | Rose Kennedy (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Kennedy: The Presidential Years | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 86% | 77% | Arthur | Martha Bach (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Lovespell | Bronwyn (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 60% | 43% | Bye Bye Monkey | Mrs. Toland (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mango Tree | Grandma Carr (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Quinns | Peggy Quinn (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yesterday's Child | Emma Talbot (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Echoes of a Summer | Sara (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Diary of the Dead | Maud Kennaway (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond the Horizon | Mrs. Atkins (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 88% | 81% | Harry and Tonto | Jessie Stone (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 75% | 52% | The Last American Hero | Mrs. Jackson (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hard Driver | Mrs. Jackson (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 92% | 77% | Rachel, Rachel | Rev. Wood (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 86% | 87% | The Pawnbroker | Marilyn Birchfield (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fiercest Heart | Tante Maria (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ten North Frederick | Edith Chapin (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Obsessed | Elizabeth Grahame (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | So Evil My Love | Susan Courtney (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Nobody Lives Forever | Gladys Halvorsen (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Three Strangers | Crystal Shackleford (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | O.S.S. |
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- | 1946 |
| 80% | 67% | Uncle Harry | Lettie Quincey (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 89% | 41% | Wilson | Edith Bolling Galt (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ladies Courageous | Virgie Alford (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 80% | 63% | Watch on the Rhine | Marthe de Brancovis (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Gay Sisters | Evelyn Gaylord (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shining Victory | Dr. Mary Murray (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight From Destiny | Betty Farroway (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | 'Til We Meet Again | Bonny Coburn (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Child Is Born | Grace Sutton (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 96% | 85% | Wuthering Heights | Isabella Linton (Character) | $593.9K | 1939 |
| 85% | 81% | Dark Victory | Ann King (Character) | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mill on the Floss | Maggie Tulliver (Character) | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ace of Spades | Evelyn Daventry (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Turn of the Tide | Ruth Fosdyck (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blind Justice | Peggy Summers (Character) | - | 1934 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chalk | Janet Slatt (Character) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | The Golden Girls | Martha (Guest Star) | 1988-1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CBS Summer Playhouse | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kennedy | Rose Kennedy (Character) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1971 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Elizabeth Burton (Character) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1952-1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Claudia Procula (Character) | 1952 |