21 Facts About Celeste Holm

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Celeste Holm was an American stage, film and television actress.

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Celeste Holm is known for her performances in The Snake Pit, A Letter to Three Wives, and High Society.

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Celeste Holm's mother, Jean Parke, was an American portrait artist and author.

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Celeste Holm's father, Theodor Holm, was a Norwegian businessman whose company provided marine adjustment services for Lloyd's of London.

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Celeste Holm began high school at the University School for Girls in Chicago, and then transferred to the Francis W Parker School where she performed in many school stage productions and graduated as a member of the class of 1935.

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Celeste Holm then studied drama at the University of Chicago before becoming a stage actress in the late 1930s.

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Celeste Holm first appeared on Broadway in a small part in Gloriana, a comedy which lasted for only five performances, but her first major part on Broadway was in William Saroyan's revival of The Time of Your Life as Mary L with fellow newcomer Gene Kelly.

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However, after another supporting role in All About Eve, Celeste Holm realized she preferred live theater to movie work, and only accepted a few select film roles over the next decade.

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In 1958, she starred as a reporter in an unsold television pilot called The Celeste Holm Show, based on the book No Facilities for Women.

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Celeste Holm starred in the musical The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, which flopped after a single performance on Broadway.

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In December 1981 Celeste Holm appeared in the lead role in the British premiere of Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark at the Nottingham Playhouse.

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Celeste Holm last appeared on television in the CBS television series Promised Land.

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Celeste Holm remained active for social causes as a spokesperson for UNICEF, and for occasional professional engagements.

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In 1995, Celeste Holm was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame.

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In 2006, Celeste Holm was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University.

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Celeste Holm was a guest at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Aberdeen, Maryland.

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Celeste Holm received an honorary award during the dinner banquet at the close of the event.

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Celeste Holm married Francis Emerson Harding Davies, an English auditor, on January 7,1940.

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From 1946 to 1952, Holm was married to airline public relations executive A Schuyler Dunning, with whom she had a second son, businessman Daniel Dunning.

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In June 2012, Celeste Holm was admitted to New York's Roosevelt Hospital with dehydration, where she suffered a heart attack on July 13,2012; she died two days later at her Central Park West apartment, aged 95.

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In 1960, Celeste Holm received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her work in Motion Pictures located at 1500 Vine Street, and the other for her work on Television at the location 6821 Hollywood Blvd.