The Trip to Bountiful

…she starred in the film The Trip to Bountiful, for which she won an Academy Award. As an actress, Page was respected for her intuitiveness and creativity in capturing her often vulnerable, eccentric characters. When she died in 1987, she was still acting on Broadway in Blithe Spirit. Her last…

…it was produced as a film, for which Foote also wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay. His 1954 play The Travelling Lady, with his screenplay, became the film Baby, the Rain Must Fall in 1965. Foote also wrote an acclaimed series of nine plays about rural Texas, The Orphans’ Home Cycle;…