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Actor Born: November 24, 1914 in Dublin, Ireland Death: July 17, 2005 in Manhattan, New York City, NY Biography:The daughter of a Dublin attorney, "Geraldine Fitzgerald" was still in her teens when she made her theatrical bow with the Gate Theatre. In films from 1934, she played a series of petulant ingénues in a string of forgettable quota quickies; in later years, she sarcastically summed up her early screen roles by repeating her most frequent snatch of dialogue, "But daddy, it's my birthday!" With her first husband, she moved to New York in 1938, where she was hired by her old Gate Theatre colleague "Orson Welles" to star in the Mercury Theater production Heartbreak House. This led to several choice Hollywood assignments in such films as "Dark Victory" (1939) and "Wuthering Heights" (1939). Forever battling with studio executives over her often inconsequential screen assignments (exceptions included such roles as Edith Galt in the 1945 biopic "Wilson"), Fitzgerald briefly gave up films in 1948 to return to... Full Biography
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