Death
Page, who suffered from kidney disease, died of a heart attack in 1987 during a run on Broadway in Sir Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit at the Neil Simon Theatre. She did not arrive for either of the show's two June 13 performances; at the end of the evening performance, the play's producer announced that she had died at the age of 62.
Five days after her death, "an overflow crowd of colleagues, friends and fans", including Sissy Spacek, James Earl Jones, Amanda Plummer and husband Rip Torn filled the Neil Simon Theatre to pay tribute. Her achievements as a stage actress and teacher were highlighted; actress Anne Jackson stated at the tribute that " used a stage like no one else I'd ever seen. It was like playing tennis with someone who had 26 arms." Torn called her "Mi corazon, mi alma, mi esposa" ("My heart, my soul, my wife") and said that they "never stopped being lovers, and ... never will". She was cremated.
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