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Celeste Holm (born 1919), a blonde, sparkling New Yorker, studied acting at the University of Chicago. She started her professional acting career in 1936 and made her Broadway debut in 1936, aged 19, as Lady Mary in Gloriana. The show only ran for 5 performances but this was to be the first of her 24 Broadway shows. It was the eleventh of these that brought her fame for originating the role of Ado Annie in Oaklahoma! (1943), where she sang the show-stopping ‘I Can't Say No’. The show ran for five years, but 17 months after the opening, she was playing the starring role in the successful new musical, Bloomer Girl (1944).
In 1946, she was signed by 20th Century Fox and made her screen debut in Three Little Girls in Blue. For her third film, Elia Kazan’s Gentlemen's Agreement (1947), she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and a Golden Globe. She received two more nominations, first for Come to the Stable (1949) and then for All About Eve (1950).
At this point, she left Hollywood for the stage, spending most of the decade on Broadway, on tour both with Mame and Theatre in Concert. The only films she made in the 1950s were the two MGM musicals, The Tender Trap (1955) and High Society (1956).
She also appeared on TV shows, in her own series Honestly Celeste (1954) and as a panelist on Who Pays? (1959). Since then, she has continued to appear regularly on Television in regular series, mini series and plays.
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Theatre: Programs (USA) - post 1939 | AFFAIRS OF STATE (by Louis Verneuil) with CELESTE HOLM |
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Theatre: Playbills | SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (by Oliver Goldsmith) with Celeste Holm & Burl Ives |
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