Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm | |
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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
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
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]
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
^ 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.
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^ Obituary: Celeste Holm, Daily Telegraph, 15 July 2012
^ 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.
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^ "SunDeis 2006". SunDeis Film Festival web site. Archived from the original on 2006-09-10. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
^ Celeste Holm profile at www.superiorpics.com
^ abc John Leland (July 2, 2011). "Love and Inheritance: A Family Feud". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
^ Holm profile at www.superiorpics.com
^ Staff writers (1952-05-12). "Births, deaths, marriages, divorces". Time. Retrieved 2008-05-15.
^ 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."
^ 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."
^ Jones, Kenneth (2004-04-30). "December Bride: Shocking Guests, Celeste Holm Marries Beau at 85th Birthday Party". Playbill.
^ "Oscar-Winning Actress Celeste Holm Dies At 95". Huffington Post. July 15, 2012.
^ http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/15/12752807-oscar-winning-actress-celeste-holm-dies-at-95?lite
^ "Fire At Robert De Niro's NYC Apartment; No Injuries". Huffington Post. June 9, 2012.
^ "Celeste Holm on Bob Crosby Show". Harrisburg Telegraph. January 26, 1946. p. 15. Retrieved May 7, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "On The Air". The Gazette and Daily. March 2, 1950. p. 20. Retrieved May 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Dial Chatter". The La Crosse Tribune. May 11, 1952. p. 18. Retrieved May 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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^ "CBS Radio Mystery Theater". Santa Ana Register. February 26, 1976. p. 19. Retrieved May 7, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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Portrait of Celeste Holm and Wesley Addy by Margaret Holland Sargent
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