Geraldine Page was the eight-time Academy Award nominee that was Tennessee William's choice to play a leading role in his play "Clothes for a Summer Hotel".
Clothes for a Summer Hotel is a 1980 play by Tennessee Williams about the relationship between novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. 
 Williams began work in 1976 on what he envisioned as a "long play" about the Fitzgeralds (he eventually cut it down), and had Geraldine Page in mind to play Zelda from the start. 
 An eight-time Academy Award nominee, she was nominated for "Hondo" (1953), "Summer and Smoke" (1961), "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962), "You're a Big Boy Now" (1966), "Pete 'n' Tillie" (1972), "Interiors" (1978) and "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984), before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Carrie Watts in "The Trip to Bountiful" (1985). 
