Celeste Holm

At 95 years old, Celeste Holm has this physical status:

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film, and television actress who received an Academy Award for her role in Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and All About Eve (1950).

Ado Annie was born in Ado Annie's Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943).

Early life

Holm was the only child born and raised in Manhattan. Jean Parke, her mother, was an American portrait painter and author. Theodor Holm, her father, was a Norwegian businessman whose firm provided marine adjustment for Lloyd's of London. She travelled extensively during her youth and attended numerous schools in the Netherlands, France, and the United States, owing to her parents' occupations. She attended the University School for Girls in Chicago and then moved to Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) where she appeared 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.

Personal life

In 1936, Holm's first marriage was to Ralph Nelson at the age of 19. In 1939, the marriage took place. Ted Nelson, the Internet pioneer and sociologist, is their son.

On January 7, 1940, Holm married Francis Emerson Harding Davies, an English auditor. Davies, a Roman Catholic, was admitted into the Roman Catholic Church for the purposes of their 1940 wedding; the union was dissolved on May 8, 1945.

Holm was married to airline public relations executive A. Schuyler Dunning, with whom she had a second son, businessman Daniel Dunning.

Wesley Addy, a local actress in 1961, married Holm. In Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, the couple lived together on her family farm. He died in 1996.

Holm married opera singer Frank Basile, who was 41 years old on April 29, 2004, marking her 87th birthday. Basile and the couple met in October 1999 at a benefit for which they had been hired to perform. Holm and Basile sued immediately after their marriage to reverse the irrevocable trust that was established in 2002 by Daniel Dunning, Holm's younger son. Basile said the trust was ostensibly created to shield Holm's financial assets from taxation, but that the real intention of the trust was to discourage him from having money. Holm and her husband were left with a "fragile hold" on their apartment, which Holm purchased for $10,000 in 1953 from her film earnings and which in 2011 was estimated to be worth at least $10,000,000.

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Career

Leslie Howard, who played Holm in a Hamlet production, was his first professional theatre appearance. She appeared on Broadway in a small part in Gloriana (1938), a comedy that lasted for only five performances, but she 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. In the premiere performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma, she received the most notice from critics and audiences. In 1943, the First Lady of Ireland appeared in a cartoon.

After appearing in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, 20th Century Fox signed Holm to a movie deal in 1946. She made her film debut in Three Little Girls in Blue the year before, making a splashing "Always a Lady" in a belting Ado Annie-type song, although the woman was different—a lady. She received an Academy and Golden Globe for her role in Gentleman's Agreement (1947). Holm, on the other hand, realised she preferred live theater to film acting, and limited film roles were offered over the next decade. The comedy The Tender Trap (1955) and the musical High Society (1956), both of which co-starred Frank Sinatra, were the most successful of these. In the CBS television series Honestly, Celeste, she appeared as a professor-turned-reporter in New York City. (fall 1954) and was then a panelist on Who Pays? (1959) appoints. She appeared on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom.

She appeared as a journalist in an unsold television pilot called The Celeste Holm Show in 1958, based on the book No Facilities for Women. She appeared as Fairy Godmother alongside Lesley Ann Warren in the CBS version of Cinderella in 1965. Renne Jartt, John Fink, and Robert F. Simon appeared on NBC sitcom Nancy in 1970-71. Holm played Abby Townsend, the press secretary of the First Lady of the United States and Jarone's chaperone, as well as the President's niece, Nancy Smith, in the storyline.

Holm performed more screen acting in films such as Tom Sawyer and Three Men and a Baby, as well as in television series (often as a guest star) such as Columbo, The Eleventh Hour, Archie Bunker's Place, and Falcon Crest during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1979, she appeared in the television mini-series Backstairs at the White House. Holm appeared in the musical The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, which flopped after a single performance (and seven previews) on Broadway. Holm appeared in the lead role in the British premiere of Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark at the Nottingham Playhouse in December 1981. Lydia Woodhouse appeared on ABC soap opera Loving first in 1986 and then as Isabelle Dwyer Alden #2 from 1991 to 1992. She appeared on television in the CBS television series Promised Land (1996–99).

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