Geneviève Bonjean (13 December 1927 – 14 February 2025), known professionally as Geneviève Page, was a French actress with a film career spanning fifty years and also numerous English-speaking film productions. She was the daughter of French art collector Jacques Paul Bonjean (1899–1990). Page was born in Paris on 13 December 1927, to a family of aesthetes, like her father Jacques Bonjean, who collected art from 17th century France, and her mother Germaine (born Lipman) Bonjean. Her mother's family was Jewish, and had founded LIP. At the age of six, her godfather Christian Dior played the piano with Page's mother, and talked to Page about talking to adults. She recalls, "He had no money at the time, and drew hats for big houses. He had lunch every other day at home and played the piano, with my mother in my room, with four hands. I took refuge in the bathroom to learn my lessons." At the age of twelve, Page read some works by Voltaire, and to her mother's surprise, her father replied "If she can't read Voltaire, she can't read anyone." Despite this, she was a very talented young girl, playing Musset at Théâtre National Populaire and entering the Conservatory. Her film début was in Pas de pitié pour les femmes (1951), followed by Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), in which she played Madame de Pompadour alongside Gérard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida. Later, she appeared in Italian, French, British, and American films. She co-starred with Robert Mitchum and Ingrid Thulin in Foreign Intrigue (1956), Dirk Bogarde and Capucine in Song Without End (1960), Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in El Cid (1961), and was seen in Grand Prix (1966) with James Garner, and Belle de Jour (1967), with Catherine Deneuve and directed by Luis Buñuel. She appeared with Deneuve again when she played Countess Larisch in Mayerling (1968), also co-starring with Ava Gardner and James Mason. Billy Wilder cast her as the mysterious widow in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) because the character she played used her sex appeal to manipulate Holmes. She appeared in Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy (1987) and continued to act until 2003. She acted in 1943 in Le Soulier de Satin and in Oh! Les Beaux Jours, both of which were directed by Jean-Louis Barrault Madeleine Renaud Co. Her theatre career continued in the 1980s and 1990s, with Les larmes amères de Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) (1980), La nuit des rois (Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare), La femme sur le lit (The Woman on the Bed, Franco Brusati) 1994, and Delicate Balance (1998). Page was educated at École du Louvre and Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Page was married to Jean-Claude Bujard from 1959 until his death on 29 August 2011; the couple had two children. In an interview from 2013, she said she was having stewardship problems in her house and that she was "not used to talking anymore". Page died in Paris on 14 February 2025, at the age of 97. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geneviève Page, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• 2003Don't Worry, Be Happy — Martha Loncle
• 2000Mémoires en fuite — Jeanne
• 1999Lovers — Alice
• 1992Stranger in the House — Bernadette
• 1991Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles — Simone
• 1989Dark Woods — Nathalie Dupin
• 1987Beyond Therapy — Zizi
• 1987Italian Postcards — Silvana
• Péchés originaux
• 1983Deadly Circuit — Mrs. Schmitt-Boulanger
• 1979Buffet Froid — Geneviève Léonard
• 1973December — Béatrice de St-Mérand
• 1971Brother Carl — Karen Sandler
• 1971On the Lam — Evremont
• 1970The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — Gabrielle Valadon
• 1969A Talent for Loving — Lady Butler
• 1968Camille '68 — Camille
• 1968Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher — Margot Beste-Chetwynde
• 1968Mayerling — Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich
• 1967Belle de Jour — Madame Anais
• ITV Playhouse — Camille
• 1966Grand Prix — Monique Delvaux-Sarti
• 1966Tender Scoundrel — Béatrice Dumonceaux
• 1965The Majordomo — Geneviève des Vallières
• 1965Three Rooms in Manhattan — Yolande Combes
• 1964Youngblood Hawke — Frieda Winter
• 1963The Day and the Hour — Agathe
• 1963The Reluctant Spy — Ursula Keller
• 1962La Nuit des rois — Viola
• 1961El Cid — Princess Urraca
• 1960Song Without End — Countess Marie D'Agoult
• 1957A Girl in a Pocket — Edith
• 1957Ambush in Tangier — Mary
• 1956Foreign Intrigue — Dominique Danemore
• 1956Michael Strogoff — Nadia Fedoroff
• 1956The Silken Affair — Genevieve Gerard
• 1955Cherchez la femme — Barbara Van Looren
• 1954Nuits andalouses — Dominique de Bellecombe
• 1954Strange Desire of Mr. Bard — Donata
• 1953Lettre ouverte — Colette Simonet
• 1952Fan-Fan the Tulip — Marquise de Pompadour
• 1952La chasse à l'homme
• 1952Pleasures of Paris — Violette / Denise
• 1950No Pity for Women — Carole de Norbois

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Midi trente — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• Reflets de Cannes — Self
• 1950The Century Is Fifty — Self