Celeste Holm(1917-2012)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a
home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance.
She would study acting at the University of Chicago and make her stage
debut in 1936. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19 in 'The Time of Your Life'. She appeared in
many successful plays, including "The Women", "Oklahoma!" and "Bloomer
Girl". It was in the production of "Oklahoma!" that Celeste would sing
the showstopper, "I Cain't Say No". She was signed by 20th Century Fox
in 1946 and appeared in her first film,
Three Little Girls in Blue (1946).
With her third film,
Gentleman's Agreement (1947),
she would win the Supporting Actress Oscar and a Golden Globe. Celeste
would be nominated twice more for Academy Awards in the
Come to the Stable (1949) and
All About Eve (1950). But, Celeste
was a star who loved the stage so she left Hollywood, only to return
for two MGM musicals in the 1950s. They were
The Tender Trap (1955) and
High Society (1956). In addition to
her stage career, Celeste appeared on television in her own series,
Honestly, Celeste! (1954)
and as a panelist on
Who Pays? (1959). In 1970, Celeste
returned to television series as the chaperone to the president's
daughter on Nancy (1970). For the next
two decades, she would appear on television in regular series,
miniseries and movies. Celeste Holm died at age 95 of a heart attack on
July 15, 2012.
