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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: April 29, 1919 in New York City, NY Biography:American actress "Celeste Holm" made her first stage appearance in 1936 with a Pennsylvania stock company. Sophisticated and poised beyond her years, Holm was cast shortly afterward in a touring company of the ultra-chic Clare Boothe Luce comedy The Women, then played New York in such high-profile productions as The Time of Your Life. Rodgers and "Hammerstein" cast her as soubrette Ado Annie in Oklahoma! in 1943; both the production itself and Annie's show-stopping song "I Cain't Say No" affirmed Holm's future stardom. Following her film debut in "Three Little Girls in Blue" (1946), she was cast by her studio, 20th Century-Fox, in the role of the love-starved fashion editor in the prestige feature "Gentlemen's Agreement" (1947), for which she won an Academy Award. The important role of "Bette Davis"' understanding friend in another Oscar-winner, "All About Eve" (1950), has immortalized Holm amongst... Full Biography
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