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Celeste Holm, Witty Character Actress, Is Dead At 95
- Published_at:2012-07-16
- Category:Film & Animation
- Channel:liya28a
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- description: 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. Ms. Holm was 25 and had already appeared in at a number of Broadway productions, including William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," when she was cast as Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!," the period musical that reinvented the form. Her character's shining moment was the twangy lament "I Cain't Say No," about Annie's inability to resist men's romantic advances. The role made her a star, and she played the lead in the musical comedy "Bloomer Girl" the next year. Hollywood soon called, and in her third film she hit the jackpot. "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), starring Gregory Peck, was based on Laura Z. Hobson's novel about a journalist pretending to be Jewish in order to expose the depth and scope of American anti-Semitism. Ms. Holm was cast as a witty, worldly fashion editor who saw through hypocrisy. "And some of your other best friends are Methodists," her character reminded one self-congratulating man, "but you never bother to say that." Her performance garnered her the Oscar for best supporting actress. Her film career flourished. She played a fellow psychiatric patient of Olivia de Havilland's character in "The Snake Pit" (1948). She earned two additional Oscar nominations, for portraying a French nun in "Come to the Stable" (1949) and a playwright's well-meaning wife in "All About Eve" (1950), the classic drama about the New York theater world.
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