Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm ( born April 29, 1917 in New York City, New York, † July 15, 2012 ibid ) was an American theater and film actress.

In addition to her theater work she performed in over 100 film and television productions. For her supporting role in the feature film Gentleman's Agreement (1947 ) she won awards including the Oscar.

Life

Holm grew up as the only daughter of a painter and an insurance agent. As a result, they successfully studied drama at the University of Chicago, her debut was in 1936. At the age of 19 she made her Broadway debut and performed very successfully in the sequence in such plays as Oklahoma! on. With this piece, in which she sang the song I Can not Say No, she gained greater prominence. In 1946 she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox, as a result she could occur in her first film Three Little Girls in Blue. With her third film Gentleman's Agreement (1948 ), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which helped her while her breakthrough as a film actress.

She was nominated two more times in a row for an Oscar, especially for ... and the heavens laughs to (1950) and All About Eve ( 1951). She continued to play with many well-known films, such as in the tender trap ( 1955) or as a reporter Liz Imbrie in the 1956 classic The resulting upper ten thousand. In both films, she acted on the side of Frank Sinatra. From the 1960s spar stepped reinforced in television productions in appearance. Both for her portrayal of Mrs. Bern in the drama series Insight ( 1960) as well as the president's wife Florence Harding in the TV miniseries The White House, Rear Entrance (1979 ) she was nominated for an Emmy.

From 1984 to 1985 Holm made ​​appearances in the U.S. series Falcon Crest, in which she played the role of Anna Rossini and the estate of Angela Channing (played by Jane Wyman ) took over for some time. In the television series Promised Land they embodied 1996-1999 the role of the grandmother Hattie Greene.

Family

Celeste Holm was married five times. Among their husbands there were also the director Ralph Nelson (1938-1939) and the actor Wesley Addy, with whom she was married from 1961 until his death in 1996. In 2004 she married her last husband Frank Basile. She was the mother of two sons, one of which is the computer scientist Theodor Holm Nelson.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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