Celeste Holm







































Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm-1955.jpg
Holm in 1955

Born
(1917-04-29)April 29, 1917

Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Died July 15, 2012(2012-07-15) (aged 95)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Resting place The Woodlawn Cemetery and Conservancy, New York City
Alma mater University of Chicago
Occupation
Actress, singer
Years active 1937–2012
Spouse(s)
Ralph Nelson (m. 1936–1939; divorced)
Francis Davies (m. 1940–1945; divorced)
A. Schuyler Dunning (m. 1946–1953; divorced)
Wesley Addy (m. 1961–1996; his death)
Frank Basile (m. 2004–2012; her death)
Children 2, including Ted Nelson

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress.[1]


Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950). She originated the role of Ado Annie in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943).[1]




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Honors


  • 4 Personal life


  • 5 Health and death


  • 6 Work


    • 6.1 Film


    • 6.2 Television


    • 6.3 Theatre


    • 6.4 Radio




  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





Early life


Born and raised in Manhattan, Holm was an only child. Her mother, Jean Parke, was an American portrait artist and author. Her father, Theodor Holm, was a Norwegian businessman whose company provided marine adjustment services for Lloyd's of London. Because of her parents' occupations, she traveled often during her youth and attended various schools in the Netherlands, France and the United States. She began High School at the University School for Girls in Chicago, and then transferred to the Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) where she performed in many school stage productions and graduated as a member of the class of 1935. She then studied drama at the University of Chicago before becoming a stage actress in the late 1930s.



Career




Publicity photo, c. 1940


Holm's first professional theatrical role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard. She first appeared on Broadway in a small part in Gloriana (1938), a comedy which lasted for only five performances, but her first major part on Broadway was in William Saroyan's revival of The Time of Your Life (1940) as Mary L. with fellow newcomer Gene Kelly. The role that got her the most recognition from critics and audiences was as Ado Annie in the premiere production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! in 1943.


After she starred in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, 20th Century Fox signed Holm to a movie contract in 1946. She made her film debut that same year in Three Little Girls in Blue, making a startling entrance in a "Technicolor red" dress singing "Always a Lady," a belting Ado Annie-type song, although the character was different—a lady. In 1947 she won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in Gentleman's Agreement.[2] However, after another supporting role in All About Eve, Holm realized she preferred live theater to movie work, and only accepted a few select film roles over the next decade. The most successful of these were the comedy The Tender Trap (1955) and the musical High Society (1956), both of which co-starred Frank Sinatra. She starred as a professor-turned-reporter in New York City in the CBS television series Honestly, Celeste! (fall 1954) and was thereafter a panelist on Who Pays? (1959). She also appeared several times on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom.[citation needed]


In 1958, she starred as a reporter in an unsold television pilot called The Celeste Holm Show, based on the book No Facilities for Women. Holm also starred in the musical The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall. In 1965, she played the Fairy Godmother alongside Lesley Ann Warren in the CBS production of Cinderella. In 1970–71, she was featured on the NBC sitcom Nancy, with Renne Jarrett, John Fink and Robert F. Simon. In the story line, Holm played Abby Townsend, the press secretary of the First Lady of the United States and the chaperone of Jarrett's character, Nancy Smith, the President's daughter.


During the 1970s and 1980s, Holm did more screen acting, with roles in films such as Tom Sawyer and Three Men and a Baby, and in television series (often as a guest star) such as Columbo, The Eleventh Hour, Archie Bunker's Place and Falcon Crest. In 1979, she played the role of First Lady Florence Harding in the television mini-series, Backstairs at the White House. She was a regular on the ABC soap opera Loving, appearing first in 1986 in the role of Lydia Woodhouse and again as Isabelle Dwyer Alden #2 from 1991 to 1992. She last appeared on television in the CBS television series Promised Land (1996–99).



Honors




Accepting her Academy Award for Gentleman's Agreement (1947)


A life member of The Actors Studio,[3] Holm received numerous honors during her lifetime, including the 1968 Sarah Siddons Award for distinguished achievement in Chicago theatre; she was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan, appointed Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav by King Olav of Norway in 1979,[4] and inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1992. She remained active for social causes as a spokesperson for UNICEF, and for occasional professional engagements. From 1995 she was Chairman of the Board of Arts Horizons, a not-for-profit arts-in-education organization. In 1995, Holm's was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame.[5]


In 2006, Holm was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University.[6]


Holm was a guest at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Aberdeen, Maryland. Some of the movies in which she appeared were screened at the festival, and the unaired television pilot for Meet Me in St. Louis was shown. She received an honorary award during the dinner banquet at the close of the event.



Personal life


Holm's first marriage was at age 19 to Ralph Nelson in 1936.[7] The marriage ended in 1939. Their son, Internet pioneer and sociologist Ted Nelson (born 1937), was raised by his maternal grandparents. In his 2010 memoir, Possiplex, her son, credited with coining the term "hypertext," described this and other choices as "entirely the right decisions." He reportedly did not name his mother in the book.[8]


Holm married Francis Emerson Harding Davies, an English auditor, on January 7, 1940. Davies was a Roman Catholic, and she was received into the Roman Catholic Church for the purposes of their 1940 wedding; the marriage was dissolved on May 8, 1945.[9]


From 1946 to 1952, Holm was married to airline public relations executive A. Schuyler Dunning, with whom she had a second son, businessman Daniel Dunning.[10]


In 1961, Holm married actor Wesley Addy. The couple lived together on her family farm in the Schooley's Mountain section of Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. He died in 1996.[11][12]




Holm in 1999


On April 29, 2004, her 87th birthday, Holm married opera singer Frank Basile, who was 41 years old.[13] The couple met in October 1999 at a fundraiser for which Basile was hired to sing. Soon after their marriage, Holm and Basile sued to overturn the irrevocable trust that was created in 2002 by Daniel Dunning, Holm's younger son. The trust was ostensibly set up to shelter Holm's financial assets from taxes though Basile contended the real purpose of the trust was to keep him away from her money. The lawsuit began a five-year battle with her sons, which cost millions of dollars, and according to an article in The New York Times, left Holm and her husband with a fragile hold on their apartment, which Holm purchased for $10,000 cash in 1953 from her film earnings, and which in 2011 was believed to be worth at least $10,000,000.[8]



Health and death


According to her husband, Holm had been treated for memory loss since 2002, suffered skin cancer, bleeding ulcers and a collapsed lung, and had hip replacements and pacemakers.[8]


In June 2012, Holm was admitted to New York's Roosevelt Hospital with dehydration, where she suffered a heart attack on July 13, 2012; she died two days later at her Central Park West apartment, aged 95.[1][14][15][16]



Work



Film

























































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1946

Three Little Girls in Blue
Miriam Harrington

1947

Carnival in Costa Rica
Celeste


Gentleman's Agreement
Anne Dettrey

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
1948

The Snake Pit
Grace


Road House
Susie Smith

1949

Chicken Every Sunday
Emily Hefferan


A Letter to Three Wives
Addie Ross
Voice, Uncredited

Come to the Stable
Sister Scholastica
Nominated-Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Everybody Does It
Doris Blair Borland

1950

Champagne for Caesar
Flame O'Neill


All About Eve
Karen Richards
Nominated-Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1955

The Tender Trap
Sylvia Crewes

1956

High Society
Liz Imbrie

1961

Bachelor Flat
Helen Bushmill

1963

Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Narrator
Voice, short film
1967

Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
Louise Halloran

1973

Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly

1976

Bittersweet Love
Marian Lewis

1977

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Florence Hollister

1987

Three Men and a Baby
Mrs. Holden

1989

Nora's Christmas Gift
Nora Richards
video
1997

Still Breathing
Ida, Fletcher's Grand Mother

2005

Alchemy
Iris

2012

Driving Me Crazy
Mrs. Ginsberg

2013

College Debts
Grandma GG
Completed, (final film role)


Television





























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1950

All Star Revue
Guest Actress
Episode "1.6"
1951

Lux Video Theatre
Eliza
Margaret Best
Episode: "The Pacing Goose"
Episode: "Second Sight"
1952

Schlitz Playhouse

Episode: "Four's a Family"

Lux Video Theatre
Katherine Case
Episode: "The Bargain"
1953

Lux Video Theatre
Miss Prynne
Episode: "Lost Sunday"

Hollywood Opening Night

Episode: "Mrs. Genius"

Your Jeweler's Showcase

Episode: "Heart's Desire"
1954

Honestly, Celeste!
Celeste Anders
TV series
1955

The United States Steel Hour
Madge Collins
Episode: "The Bogey Man"
1956

Climax!
Mary Miller
Episode: "The Empty Room Blues"

Sneak Preview

TV series

Carolyn
Carolyn Daniels
TV movie

The Steve Allen Show
Mad Meggie
Episode: "2.8"

Producers' Showcase
Mad Meggie
Episode: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
1957

Schlitz Playhouse
Lettie Morgan
Episode: "The Wedding Present"

Goodyear Playhouse
Maggie Travis
Episode: "The Princess Back Home"

Zane Grey Theater
Sarah Kimball
Episode: "Fugitive"

The Yeoman of the Guard
Phoebe Meryll
TV movie
1960

The Art Carney Special

Episode: "The Man in the Dog Suit"

The Christophers

Episode: "Women of the Bible"
1961

Play of the Week
Virginia
Episode: "A Clearing in the Woods"
1962

Follow the Sun
Miss Bullfinch
Episode: "The Irresistible Miss Bullfinch"

Checkmate
Laraine Whitman
Episode: "So Beats My Plastic Heart"

Alcoa Premiere
Laura Bennett
Episode: "Cry Out in Silence"
1963

Dr. Kildare
Nurse Jane Munson
Episode: "The Pack Rat and Prima Donna"

Burke's Law
Helen Forsythe
Episode: "Who Killed the Kind Doctor?"
1964

The Eleventh Hour
Billie Hamilton
Episode "How Do I Say I Love You?"
1965

Mr. Novak
Rose Herrod
Episode: "An Elephant Is Like a Tree"

Cinderella
Fairy Godmother
TV movie

Run for Your Life
Margot Horst
Episode: "The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan"

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Mrs. Fuller
4 episodes

The Fugitive
Flo Hagerman
Episode: "The Old Man Picked a Lemon"
1966

The Long Hot Summer
Libby Rankin
Episode: "Face of Fear"

Meet Me in St. Louis
Mrs. Smith
TV movie
1967

The Fugitive
Pearl Patton
Episode: "Concrete Evidence"

The F.B.I.
Flo Clementi
Episode: "The Executioners: Part 1"
Episode: "The Executioners: Part 2"

Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI
Flo Clementi
TV movie

Insight
Mrs. Berns
Episode: "Fat Hands and a Diamond Ring"
1970

The Name of the Game
Irene Comdon
Episode: "The Brass Ring"

Swing Out, Sweet Land
Nancy Lincoln
TV movie
1970–1971

Nancy
Abigail
17 episodes
1972

The Delphi Bureau
Sybil Van Loween
Episode: "Pilot"
1973

Medical Center
Dr. Linda Wilson
Episode: "No Margin for Error"
1974

Medical Center
Geraldine Stern
Episode: "Web of Intrigue"

The Streets of San Francisco
Mrs. Shaninger
Episode: "Crossfire"

The Underground Man
Beatrice Broadhurst
TV movie

Death Cruise
Elizabeth Mason
TV movie

The Manhunter

Episode: "The Truck Murders"
1976

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
TV movie

Captains and the Kings
Sister Angela
TV miniseries

Columbo
Mrs. Brandt
Episode: Old Fashioned Murder
1977

The Love Boat II
Eva McFarland
TV movie

The Wonderful World of Disney
Deirdre Wainwright
Episode: "The Bluegrass Special"

Wonder Woman
Dolly Tucker
Episode: "I Do, I Do"
1978

Lucan

Episode: "You Can't Have My Baby"

Fantasy Island
Mabel Jarvis
Episode: "The Beachcomber/The Last Whodunnit"
1979

Fantasy Island
Sister Veronica
Episode: "The Look Alikes/Winemaker"

Backstairs at the White House
Mrs. Florence Harding
TV miniseries
Nominated-Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special

Trapper John, M.D.
Claudia
Episode: "The Shattered Image"

The Love Boat
Estelle Castlewood
Episode: "A Good and Faithful Servant/The Secret Life of Burl Smith/Tug of War/Designated Lover"
1981

Midnight Lace
Sylvia Randall
TV movie

As the World Turns
Lauren Roberts
TV series

Archie Bunker's Place
Estelle Harris
Episode: "Growing Up is Hard to Do"
Episode: "Custody"
1982

American Playhouse
Celebrity
Episode: "The Shady Hill Kidnapping"

Trapper John, M.D.
Lillie Townsend
Episode: "Don't Rain on My Charade"
1983

Archie Bunker's Place
Estelle Harris
Episode: "Three Women"

This Girl for Hire
Zandra Stoneham
TV movie
1984

Jessie
Molly Hayden
TV movie

Jessie
Molly Hayden
6 episodes

The Love Boat
Florence Flanders
Episode: "Buck Stops Here, The/For Better or Worse/Bet on It"
1985

Matt Houston
Katherine Hershey
Episode: "Company Secrets"

Falcon Crest
Anna Rossini
6 episodes
1987

Murder by the Book
Claire
TV movie

Magnum, P.I.
Abigail Baldwin
Episode: "The Love That Lies"
1988

Spenser: For Hire
Rose
Episode: "Haunting"
1989

CBS Summer Playhouse
Samantha Orbison
Episode: "Road Show"

Polly
Miss Snow
TV movie
1989–1990

Christine Cromwell
Samantha Cromwell
4 episodes
1990

Polly: Comin' Home!
Miss Snow
TV movie
1991–1992

Loving
Isabella Alden
TV series
1992

Cheers
Grandmother Gaines
Episode: "No Rest for the Woody"
1995

Great Performances

Episode: "Talking With"
1996

Home of the Brave
Hattie Greene
TV movie

Once You Meet a Stranger
Clara
TV movie

Touched by an Angel
Hattie Greene
Episode: "Promised Land"
1996–1999

Promised Land
Hattie Greene
67 episodes
1997

Touched by an Angel
Hattie Greene
Episode: "The Road Home: Part 1"
Episode: "Amazing Grace: Part 2"
1998

Touched by an Angel
Hattie Greene
Episode: "Vengeance Is Mine: Part 1"
2000

The Beat
Frances Robinson
13 episodes
2002

Third Watch
Florence
Episode: "Transformed"
2004

Whoopi
Diana
Episode: "The Squatters"


Theatre

























































































































































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1938

Gloriana
Lady Mary

1940

The Time of Your Life
Mary L

1940

Another Sun
Maria

1940

The Return of the Vagabond
His Daughter

1941

Eight O'Clock Tuesday
Marcia Godden

1941

My Fair Ladies
Lady Keith-Odlyn

1942

Papa Is All
Emma

1942

All the Comforts of Home
Fifi Oritanski

1942

The Damask Cheek
Calla Longstreth

1943

Oklahoma!
Ado Annie Carnes

1944

Bloomer Girl
Evalina

1950

Affairs of State
Irene Elliott

1951

The King and I
Anna Leonowens
Replacement
1952

Anna Christie
Anna Christopherson

1954

His and Hers
Maggie Palmer

1958

Interlock
Mrs. Price

1958

Third Best Sport
Helen Sayre

1960

Invitation to a March
Camilla Jablonski

1967

Mame
Mame Dennis
Replacement
1970

Candida
Candida

1974

Habeas Corpus
Lady Rumpers

1979

The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall
Julia Faysle

1991

I Hate Hamlet
Lilian Troy

1994

Allegro
Grandma Taylor



Radio













































Year
Title
Role
Notes
1946


Guest on The Bob Crosby Show[17]
1950

Everybody Does It

Episode of Screen Guild Theater[18]
1952

Up in Central Park

Episode of Music In the Air[19]
1952

Foreign Affairs

Episode of Screen Guild Theater[20]
1953

Cluny Brown

Episode of Star Playhouse[21]
1976

Afterward

Episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater[22]



References





  1. ^ abc Anita Gates (July 15, 2012). "Celeste Holm, Witty Character Actress, Is Dead at 95". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-12-23. Celeste Holm, the New York-born actress who made an indelible Broadway impression as an amorous country girl in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", earned an Academy Award as the knowing voice of tolerance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and went on to a six-decade screen and stage career, frequently cast as the wistful or brittle sophisticate, died early Sunday at her apartment in Manhattan. She was 95. Her death was announced by Amy Phillips, a great-niece. Ms. Holm had a heart attack at Roosevelt Hospital in New York last week while being treated there for dehydration, but she was taken home on Friday..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Obituary: Celeste Holm, Daily Telegraph, 15 July 2012


  3. ^ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.


  4. ^ "Ridder av St. Olav", Aftenposten, morning edition 21. May 1979, p. 10.


  5. ^ "SAHF Inductees". hostfest.com. Norsk Høstfest. Retrieved 11 January 2016.


  6. ^ "SunDeis 2006". SunDeis Film Festival web site. Archived from the original on 2006-09-10. Retrieved 2007-10-29.


  7. ^ Celeste Holm profile at www.superiorpics.com


  8. ^ abc John Leland (July 2, 2011). "Love and Inheritance: A Family Feud". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-07-04.


  9. ^ Holm profile at www.superiorpics.com


  10. ^ Staff writers (1952-05-12). "Births, deaths, marriages, divorces". Time. Retrieved 2008-05-15.


  11. ^ via Associated Press. "Celeste Holm, Oscar-winning actress, dies at 95", Express-Times, July 15, 2012; accessed October 22, 2015. "Celeste Holm married her fourth husband, actor Robert Wesley Addy, in 1966. The couple lived in Washington Township., Morris County, N.J."


  12. ^ Summary of Preserved Farms - EG Jewett / Holm Farm, Morris County Agriculture Development Board, October 12, 2012. Accessed October 22, 2015. "Owned since 1922 by the family of actress Celeste Holm, this large farm atop Schooley's Mountain is in wheat and tree fruit production."


  13. ^ Jones, Kenneth (2004-04-30). "December Bride: Shocking Guests, Celeste Holm Marries Beau at 85th Birthday Party". Playbill.


  14. ^ "Oscar-Winning Actress Celeste Holm Dies At 95". Huffington Post. July 15, 2012.


  15. ^ http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/15/12752807-oscar-winning-actress-celeste-holm-dies-at-95?lite


  16. ^ "Fire At Robert De Niro's NYC Apartment; No Injuries". Huffington Post. June 9, 2012.


  17. ^ "Celeste Holm on Bob Crosby Show". Harrisburg Telegraph. January 26, 1946. p. 15. Retrieved May 7, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  18. ^ "On The Air". The Gazette and Daily. March 2, 1950. p. 20. Retrieved May 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  19. ^ "Dial Chatter". The La Crosse Tribune. May 11, 1952. p. 18. Retrieved May 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  20. ^ "(radio listing)". The Decatur Daily Review. May 4, 1952. p. 50. Retrieved May 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  21. ^ Kirby, Walter (November 15, 1953). "Better Radio Programs for the Week". The Decatur Daily Review. p. 50. Retrieved July 7, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read



  22. ^ "CBS Radio Mystery Theater". Santa Ana Register. February 26, 1976. p. 19. Retrieved May 7, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
    open access publication – free to read





External links








  • Celeste Holm on IMDb


  • Celeste Holm at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Celeste Holm at the Internet Off-Broadway Database


  • Celeste Holm at the TCM Movie Database Edit this at Wikidata


  • Celeste Holm at AllMovie


  • Celeste Holm at Find a Grave


  • Portrait of Celeste Holm and Wesley Addy by Margaret Holland Sargent

  • Obituary at We Love Soaps










Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Information security

Lambak Kiri

章鱼与海女图