Celeste Holm

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Celeste Holm at the 1988 Academy Awards

Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917 in New York City , New York ; † July 15, 2012 there ) was an American theater and film actress . In addition to her theater work, she has appeared in over 100 film and television productions. For her supporting role in the film Tabu der Gerechten (1947), she was awarded an Oscar , among other things .

Life

Holm grew up as the only daughter of a painter and an insurance agent. As a result, she successfully studied acting at the University of Chicago , her debut was in 1936. At the age of 19 she made her Broadway debut and subsequently performed extremely successfully in plays such as Oklahoma! on. With this piece, in which she sang the song I Can't Say No, she gained greater fame. In 1946 she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox , which resulted in her appearing in her first film, Three Little Girls in Blue . With her third film Tabu der Gerechten , she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1948 , which also helped her break through as a film actress.

For ... and heaven laughs at it (1949) and Alles über Eva (1950) she was nominated for an Oscar two more times in a row. After that, however, it was no longer seen in the cinema until 1955. Instead, she starred in a number of television series, including her own sitcom Honestly, Celeste !, which was canceled after eight episodes due to poor ratings. From 1955 Holm returned to the screen, for example in successful films such as Die zartefallen (1955) or as a reporter Liz Imbrie in the 1956 classic The Upper Ten Thousand . In both films, she acted on the side of Frank Sinatra .

From the 1960s onwards, Holm appeared again increasingly in television productions. She was nominated for an Emmy both for her portrayal of Mrs. Bern in the drama series Insight (1960) and that of the President's wife Florence Harding in the television multipart White House, Back Entrance (1979) .

From 1984 to 1985 Holm had appearances in the US series Falcon Crest , in which she played the role of Anna Rossini and took over the winery from Angela Channing (played by Jane Wyman ) for some time. In the television series Ein Wink des Himmels , she played the role of grandmother Hattie Greene from 1996 to 1999.

family

Celeste Holm was married a total of five times. Among her husbands were the director Ralph Nelson (from 1938 to 1939) and the actor Wesley Addy (from 1961 until his death in 1996). In 2004 she married her last husband, Frank Basile. Holm was the mother of two sons, the computer scientist Theodor Holm Nelson and the businessman Daniel Dunning.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Honors

Nominations

  • 1950: Oscar nomination for ... and heaven laughs at it (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 1951: Oscar nomination for Everything About Eva (Best Supporting Actress)
  • 1968: Emmy nomination for Insight: Fat Hands and a Diamond Ring (best performance in a day program)
  • 1979: Emmy nomination for the White House, back entrance (Best Supporting Actress in a limited series or special)
  • 1987: Nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Loving (Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Academy Award Winner Celeste Holm Dies At 95 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ny1.com
  2. ^ David C. Tucker, The Women Who Made Television Funny: Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms . McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7864-8732-5 ( google.de [accessed January 26, 2020]).