Posted on 07/15/2012 12:24:34 PM PDT by John W
NEW YORK - Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday, a relative said. She was 95.
In a career that spanned more than half a century, Holm played everyone from Ado Annie — the girl who just can't say no in "Oklahoma!"- to a worldly theatrical agent in the 1991 comedy "I Hate Hamlet" to guest star turns on TV shows such as "Fantasy Island" and "Love Boat II" to Bette Davis' best friend in "All About Eve."
She won the Academy Award in 1947 for best supporting actress for her performance in "Gentlemen's Agreement" and received Oscar nominations for "Come to the Stable" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950).
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Sad. My favorite film that she was in is “High Society” with Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. If you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend it.
RIP Celeste.
Who could forget Celeste’s riveting performance in the classic film noir “The Love Boat II?”
Students of film, and film critics will take a century or so to deconstruct and perhaps begin to understand “The Love Boat II.”
Mine too. “Who wants to be a millionaire?”
RIP
She used to have a summer home here in NW NJ. I would see her in the checkout line at Shop Rite.
RIP Celeste.
Glenda, the Good Witch
She ended up a supermarket cashier? Poor Celeste.
No...she was ahead of me, paying for her purchases. :)
No...she was ahead of me, paying for her purchases. :)
I don’t remember her in “Gentlemen’s Agreement”. That could well be because Gregory Peck’s sanctimony sent me into a diabetic shock, and I don’t even have diabetes.
I loved Celeste Holm. She always had class. I remember her from All About Eve and High Society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6UllZwj9c
I always thought that was Billie Burke.
In my mind she will always be the beautiful farmer’s daughter who couldn’t say no either to the Persian Peddler or her cowboy fiancee.
I saw her at some fundraiser or get-together a few years back, and was struck by how deeply unhappy she seemed to be. The sadness and pain in her eyes was absolutely haunting.
May her soul be at peace with the Lord.
In my mind she will always be the beautiful farmer’s daughter who couldn’t say no either to the Persian Peddler or her cowboy fiancee.
I had to run her in IMDB to see if I remembered right and she was in Chapmagne For Caesar. It is a really funny Vincent Price movie.
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