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  Celeste Holm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1919, but some sources indicate 1917) is an American stage, film, and television actress.
Celeste Holm has received many honors in her lifetime: the 1968 Sarah Siddons Award for distinguished achievement in Chicago theatre, she was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan, knighted by King Olav of Norway, and inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1992.
Holm is the mother of Ted Nelson, the co-creator of hypertext, from whom she is estranged, by her first husband, Ralph Nelson; and of Daniel Dunning with third husband, A. Schuyler Dunning.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Celeste_Holm   (442 words)

  
 Celeste Holm at Reel Classics: Biography
CELESTE HOLM was born on April 29, 1919 in New York City to Norwegian-born Theodor Holm, an insurance adjuster for Lloyds of London, and his wife, Jean Parke Holm, a portrait artist and author.
Celeste fared slightly better in 1949, making a memorable contribution to Joseph L. Mankiewicz's A LETTER TO THREE WIVES as the off-screen voice of Addie Ross and earning a second Oscar nomination for her role as a tennis-playing French nun in COME TO THE STABLE with Loretta Young.
Celeste herself was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, along with co-star Thelma Ritter, but both actresses lost to Josephine Hull for her performance in HARVEY (1950).
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Holm/holm-bio.htm   (1562 words)

  
 Celeste Holm at Reel Classics
Celeste Holm made a name for herself on Broadway in comedies and musicals before signing a long-term contract with 20th Century-Fox under whose auspices she made the first nine films of her now six-decade Hollywood career.
Holm made her film debut for Fox in THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE (1946), a musical (about three sisters out to trap wealthy husbands) which she stole from stars June Haver, Vivian Blaine and Vera-Ellen.
Holm's performance as the sophisticated and witty spinster fashion editor almost single-handedly rescued the film from collapsing under its heavy social message.
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Holm/holm.htm   (522 words)

  
 Welcome to the Official Website of Celeste Holm -- Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Celeste Holm knew as early as two-and-a-half years old that she wanted to be on the stage, for it was at this tender age when she was taken to see the famous dancer Anna Pavlova.
Celeste strongly believed in only doing work she felt was relevant and of dramatic substance.
Celeste is also one of the Arts Commissioners of The New Jersey Motion Picture And Television Commission, ensuring responsible programming for the future.
www.celesteholm.com /bio.htm   (1120 words)

  
 faq
Celeste Holm, whose six-decade career as a movie star includes an Oscar for her performance in GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT and dozens of leading and supporting roles, has been chosen as the 2003 recipient of the High Falls Film Festival’s Susan B. Anthony “Failure is Impossible” Award.
Holm garnered two more nominations for her role as a nun trying to raise money for a children’s hospital in COME TO THE STABLE, and for her role as the perceptive wife of a playwright in the classic drama ALL ABOUT EVE,.
Holm shocked the Hollywood establishment when she bought out the remainder of her contract in 1950 to return to the stage and pursue opportunities in television.
www.highfallsfilmfestival.com /2004/press15.html   (822 words)

  
 Biography for Celeste Holm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance.
Celeste would be nominated twice more for Academy Awards in the 'Come to the Stable (1949)' and 'All About Eve (1950)'.
She is the daughter of Theodor Holm, a Norwegian insurance adjuster for Loyd's of London, and Jean Parke Holm, an American portrait artist and author.
us.imdb.com /name/nm0002141/bio   (768 words)

  
 Celeste Holm
Holm garnered both an Oscar and Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress for her critically acclaimed performance in "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) starring Gregory Peck.
Holm received an Emmy nomination for her performance in the miniseries, "Backstairs at the White House." She has worked in television since the 1950s appearing on numerous network series, miniseries, specials and TV-movies.
Celeste Holm is an intelligent and graceful actress and lifelong champion of the arts.
newbedforder.tripod.com /promisedland/id7.html   (377 words)

  
 Senior Times: January: Features & News: Celeste Holm: just a girl who can say no 1/1/98
Holm said that the floor-to-ceiling windows drink in the light once the sun clears the phalanx of high-rises that line Fifth Avenue on the opposite side of Central Park.
Less prominent is Holm's Oscar for "Gentleman's Agreement," barely visible on a side tables and half hidden by the overhang of a summer flower arrangement.
Holm currently stars in the CBS series "Promised Land," playing "Hattie Greene," the spunky matriarch of a close-knit family traveling across America in a battered RV.
www.theflashes.net /seniortimes/jan98/stories/010198/ftr_celeste.html   (1036 words)

  
 Celeste Holm - Biography
Suffice it to say, Holm’s finely-tuned sense of self was the key to unlocking her talent yet first she had to acknowledge if any talent was there at all.
How Holm was ever able to manage such sensible and sensitive decision-making during the formative years of her life is amazing.
Holm, a devout New Yorker, fills her life with film and television roles, political activism (she was arrested in 1982 for protesting the demolition of two Broadway theatres), and philanthropy.
www.wangcenter.org /cholm.html   (1201 words)

  
 NewStandard: 4/22/97
It was 49 years ago that Celeste Holm won an Academy Award as best supporting actress, playing Gregory Peck's compassionate friend in "Gentleman's Agreement." The victory, however, won no points with her boss, Darryl F. Zanuck of 20th Century-Fox.
Holm was able to land two more Oscar nominations at Fox: for "Come to the Stable" in 1949 and "All About Eve" in 1950.
Holm was educated in Holland, France and the United States, studied drama at the University of Chicago and had her first big break on Broadway in William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" in 1938.
www.s-t.com /daily/04-97/04-22-97/c06ae098.htm   (620 words)

  
 Playbill News: December Bride: Shocking Guests, Celeste Holm Marries Beau at 85th Birthday Party
Holm and Basile, who is some 40 years Holm's junior, "are very confident in the decision that they have made," according to a spokesperson for the couple.
Here is Holm's official biography: "Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance.
Arts Horizons, under the board leadership of Celeste Holm, "is an arts education non-profit that reaches more than 300,000 tri-state children, teachers and parents annually with its creative and instructional programs that feature music, dance, theatre, creative writing and the visual arts.
www.playbill.com /news/article/85931.html   (690 words)

  
 Welcome to the Official Website of Celeste Holm -- Upcoming Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Celeste Holm returns to LA to continue work on her Autobiography.
Celeste Holm is honored in Chicago at Evelyn Echols event PREVENT BLINDNESS.
Celeste Holm is in LA working on her up-coming Autobiography.
www.celesteholm.com /events.htm   (204 words)

  
 Celeste Holm @ Filmbug UK
Born in New York City, Holm studied acting at the University of Chicago before becoming a stage actress in the late 1930s.
Her first professional theatrical role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard, and Holm quickly rose to prominence with her portrayal of Ado Annie in the first Broadway production of Oklahoma!.
Celeste Holm has received many honors in her lifetime: she was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan, knighted by King Olav of Norway, and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1992.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/59943   (364 words)

  
 Welcome to MODA Entertainment.com -- PUBLICITYBOX -- Celeste Holm Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Celeste Holm became an actress because she was taken to see Pavlova when she was two-and-half and decided that she wanted to produce the same effect of rejoicing on an audience.
Celeste won Academy Award nominations for her work in Come to the Stable and All About Eve.
Warren Hardin, in Backstairs at the White House, for which she received Emmy nomination: in John Cheever’s Shady Hill Kidnapping, which inaugurated the PBS American Playhouse, and in the CBS-TV series, Promised Land and recently she was seen on The Whoopi Show, NBC.
www.modaentertainment.com /pubrelholmbio.html   (530 words)

  
 Vanderbilt University: Daily Register
Hollywood legends Patricia Neal (left) and Celeste Holm participated in a Film Studies class Sept. 6 taught by Sam Girgus, professor of English.
Patricia Neal, who held roles in celebrated films including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Fountainhead and Hud, for which she won an Oscar; and Celeste Holm from classics All About Eve and Gentleman’s Agreement sat in on the “America on Film”; class taught by Professor of English Sam B. Girgus.
Holm won an Oscar for her performance in Gentleman’s Agreement.
www.vanderbilt.edu /Register/Sep03_02/20020910hollywd.html   (307 words)

  
 Still Breathing: Celeste Holm . . . "Ida"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Celeste Holm made her professional debut in Leslie Howard's HAMLET, beginning a career encompassing theater, motion pictures, supper clubs, and television.
Miss Holm then came Hollywood to earn three Academy Award nominations: COME TO THE STABLE, ALL ABOUT EVE, and she won the Oscar for her role in GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT, a searing revelation of prejudice, which also won the accolade for Best Picture.
Miss Holm is currently starring in the television series "Promised Land" and prior to he work in STILL BREATHING, starred in the new play, "THE BROOCH" for New York City's Miranda Theatre Company.
www.stillbreathing.com /thescoop/celeste.html   (191 words)

  
 Brooklyn College Theater Department - Productions
Holm was frequently unhappy with the roles Hollywood provided her, and in 1949 she began to work on stage again, and soon ventured as well into television drama.
Celeste Holm has three grandchildren and I’m sure one of her proudest achievements was being named “Grandparent of the Year” in 1997 by the National Grandparents Committee.
Celeste Holm, grand actress, humanitarian, and loving grandmother, the Brooklyn College Department of Theater takes great pride in presenting you with the first annual Alfred Drake Award.
depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /theater/updates/11-24-drake_award.htm   (1872 words)

  
 Film/Classic: High Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
All the actors with the exception of Sinatra and Holm are appropriately elegant.
She is obviously a frivolous snob, but she decides to put on the charm for the honor of the family.
Connor and Holm are suitably impressed with the Lord's stately home and they have a fine duet, "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," that Holm performs admirably and with great charm.
www.thecityreview.com /highsoc.html   (976 words)

  
 Honestly, Celeste! (CBS)(Fall 1954) starring Celeste Holm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Celeste Holm stars as Celeste Anders, a journalism teacher from a Minnesota
Celeste Anders thows a houswarming party to celebrate her new-found Greenwich
Celeste is assigned to do a feature story on an exhibit at an art gallery, but
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 eBay - celeste holm, Photographic Images, Movie Memorabilia items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Gregory Peck & Celeste Holm: 8x10 B&W Glossy
Celeste Holm Signed Autograph Actress All About Eve
Celeste Holm - All About Eve signed auto display w/ COA
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 Celeste Holm Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Terry-Thomas, Richard Beymer, Tuesday Weld, Celeste Holm, Francesca Bellini.
Starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe.
Starring Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O Z Whitehead, Robert Karnes, George Beranger, Ian MacDonald, Grandon Rhodes, Marion Marshall.
www.tv-now.com /stars/celholm.html   (311 words)

  
 National Press Club -- Celeste Holm
Dame Holm, who was knighted by the King of Norway, has also served as a member of the Governing Board of the Mental Health Association, president of the Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, chair of the New Jersey Film Commission, and board member of the Actor's Fund.
A Hollywood actress whose films are now often considered “classics,” she co-starred with Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Marilyn Monroe, and worked the boards with Frank Sinatra in the musicals The Tender Trap and High Society.
Holm began working in television in the 1950s, appearing on numerous network series, specials and made-for-TV movies.
www.npr.org /programs/npc/2001/010629.cholm.html   (410 words)

  
 Max Wilk
Oklahoma was Celeste Holm's first foray into musical theater.
Holm stunned Rodgers and Hammerstein with her rendition of hog calling.
Celeste Holm learned to allow the audience to finish clapping after singing.
www.johnnymercer.com /maxwilk.htm   (822 words)

  
 Celeste Holm News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
News about Celeste Holm continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
The Greenwich Film Festival honored silver screen starlet and Oscar-winner Celeste Holm last night with its lifetime achievement award at a fund-raiser that also drew cast members of the HBO hit "The Sopranos."...
NEW YORK, May 04, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Broadway and film star Celeste Holm married her opera-singer beau Frank Basile at her 85th birthday party in New York,...
www.topix.net /who/celeste-holm   (168 words)

  
 Collectors Post - CELESTE HOLM Biography
Celeste Holm (born 1919), a blonde, sparkling New Yorker, studied acting at the University of Chicago.
She started her professional acting career in 1936 and made her Broadway debut in 1936, aged 19, as Lady Mary in Gloriana.
The only films she made in the 1950s were the two MGM musicals, The Tender Trap (1955) and High Society (1956).
www.collectorspost.com /Actors/celeste_holm.html   (276 words)

  
 Vanderbilt University Register: Stars shine in 'America on Film' class
Hollywood legends Celeste Holm (right) and Patricia Neal (not pictured) participated in a film studies class Sept. 6.
Holm won an Oscar for her performance in Gentleman's Agreement, and Neal won an Oscar for her role in Hud.
Patricia Neal, who held roles in celebrated films including Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Fountainhead and Hud, for which she won an Oscar; and Celeste Holm from classics All About Eve and Gentleman's Agreement sat in on the "America on Film" class taught by Professor of English Sam B. Girgus.
www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Sep16_02/story8.html   (312 words)

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