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Celeste Holm

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Celeste Holm took the stage in 27 Broadway productions. Her most recent appearance was in 1991's I Hate Hamlet. She made her debut on the Great White Way in 1938's Gloriana and originated the role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma!. She has also appeared in Broadway's The Time of Your Life, Another Sun, The Return of the Vagabond, Eight O'Clock Tuesday, My Fair Ladies, Papa Is All, All the Comforts of Home, The Damask Cheek, Bloomer Girl, Affairs of State, The King and I, Anna Christie, His and Hers, Interlock, Third Best Sport, Invitation to a March, Mame, Candida, The Grass Harp, Mama, Habeas Corpus, The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall and more. In 1994, Holm participated in the Off-Broadway Encores! Concert version of Allegro.



Holm won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film Gentlemen's Agreement and was also nominated for Come to the Stable and All About Eve. Holm's most recent film is the comedy College Debts, set for 2013. Her other film credits include Driving Me Crazy, Alchemy, Still Breathing, Three Men and a Baby, Backstairs at the White House, Bittersweet Love, Tom Sawyer, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, High Society, The Tender Trap, Three Little Girls in Blue and many more.

On television, Holm was nominated for Emmy Awards for Insight and Backstairs at the White House, as well as a Daytime Emmy for Loving. She played roles in the TV series Nancy, Archie Bunker's Place, Falcon Crest, The Beat, Promised Land, The Love Boat, Touched by an Angel and more.



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STAGE CREDITS

Allegro
[Off-Broadway]
Encores! Concert, 1994
Grandma Taylor
I Hate Hamlet
[Broadway]
1991
Lillian Troy
The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1979
Julia Faysle
Performer
Julia Faysle
Habeas Corpus
[Broadway]
1975
Lady Rumpers
Mama
[Broadway]
Closed on the road, 1972
Performer
The Grass Harp
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1971
Babylove [Replacement]
[Replacement]
Candida
[Broadway]
1970
Candida
Mame
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1966
Mame Dennis [Replacement]
[Replacement]
Invitation to a March
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1960
Camilla Jablonski
Third Best Sport
[Broadway]
1958
Helen Sayre
Interlock
[Broadway]
1958
Mrs. Price
His and Hers
[Broadway]
1954
Maggie Palmer
Anna Christie
[Broadway]
1952
Anna Christopherson
The King and I
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1951
Anna Leonowens [Replacement]
[Replacement]
Affairs of State
[Broadway]
1950
Irene Elliott
Bloomer Girl
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1944
Evalina
Evelina
Evalina
Evelina
Oklahoma!
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1943
Ado Annie Carnes
The Damask Cheek
[Broadway]
1942
Calla Longstreth
All the Comforts of Home
[Broadway]
1942
Fifi Oritanski
Papa Is All
[Broadway]
1942
Emma
My Fair Ladies
[Broadway]
1941
Lady Keith-Odlyn
Eight O'Clock Tuesday
[Broadway]
1941
Marcia Godden
The Time of Your Life
[Broadway]
1940
Mary L.
The Return of the Vagabond
[Broadway]
1940
His Daughter
Another Sun
[Broadway]
1940
Maria
The Time of Your Life
[Broadway]
1939
Mary L.
Gloriana
[Broadway]
1938
Lady Mary

Movies

Three Little Girls in Blue
[ 1946 ] Miriam Harrington
Gentleman's Agreement
[ 1947 ] Anne Dettrey
Carnival in Costa Rica
[ 1947 ] Celeste
The Snake Pit
[ 1948 ] Grace
Road House
[ 1948 ] Susie Smith
Everybody Does It
[ 1949 ] Doris Blair Borland
Chicken Every Sunday
[ 1949 ] Emily Hefferan
Champagne for Caesar
[ 1950 ] Flame O Neil
All About Eve
[ 1950 ] Karen
The Tender Trap
[ 1955 ] Sylvia Crewes
High Society
[ 1956 ] Liz Imbrie
Bachelor Flat
[ 1961 ] Helen Bushmill
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
[ 1967 ] Louise Halloran
Tom Sawyer
[ 1973 ] Aunt Polly
Bittersweet Love
[ 1976 ] Marian Lewis
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
[ 1977 ] Florence Hollister
Three Men and a Baby
[ 1987 ] Jack's Mother
Still Breathing
[ 1997 ] Ida, Fletcher's Grand Mother
Alchemy
[ 2005 ] Iris
Driving Me Crazy: Proof of Concept
[ 2012 ] Mrs. Ginsberg
College Debts
[ 2015 ] Grandma GG

TV Shows

Archie Bunker's Place
Estelle Harris
Christine Cromwell
Samantha Cromwell
Fantasy Island
Sister Veronica, Mabel Jarvis
Loving
Isabelle Alden #3
Medical Center
Geraldine Stern, Dr. Linda Wilson
Nancy
Abigail 'Abby' Townsend, Abigai 'Abby' Townsendl, Abigail 'Abby' Townsenf
Promised Land
Hattie Greene
The Fugitive
Pearl Saunders, Flo Hagerman
The Love Boat
Florence Flanders, Estelle Castlewood
Touched by an Angel
Hattie Greene
Trapper John, M.D.
Lillie Townsend, Claudia

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Celeste Holm has appeared on Broadway in 26 shows.

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