Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm

Birthday: 1917-04-29

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography: Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950). She also is known for her performances in The Snake Pit (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and High Society (1956). Description above from the Wikipedia article Celeste Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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All About Eve
All About Eve

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

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Road House
Road House

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for emb...

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High Society
High Society

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter...

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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage

Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical mom...

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Cinderella
Cinderella

After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to p...

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Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism....

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Alchemy
Alchemy

Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive compu...

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The Tender Trap
The Tender Trap

A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made....

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The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arr...

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A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away wi...

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Polly
Polly

An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use glad...

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Bachelor Flat
Bachelor Flat

Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female student...

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame...

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Come to the Stable
Come to the Stable

Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various t...

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College Debts
College Debts

A Midwest college student eager to pay for his tuition at a prestigious acting program in New York C...

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Backstory: 'All About Eve'
Backstory: 'All About Eve'

A documentary about the making of the 1950 film "All About Eve."...

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Bittersweet Love
Bittersweet Love

A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his fathe...

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Chicken Every Sunday
Chicken Every Sunday

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes....

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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally ...

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Three Little Girls in Blue
Three Little Girls in Blue

Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands....

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Carnival in Costa Rica
Carnival in Costa Rica

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time....

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Everybody Does It
Everybody Does It

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her...

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Polly: Comin' Home!
Polly: Comin' Home!

Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involve...

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This Girl for Hire
This Girl for Hire

In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private...

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The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization ...

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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

The story of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1924-1972, following his racket-busting days thro...

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Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...

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Nora's Christmas Gift
Nora's Christmas Gift

Nora spends her time feeling sorry for herself as she faces hearing problems and blindness. But at t...

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Kilroy
Kilroy

Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Be...

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Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love

A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm....

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Champagne for Caesar
Champagne for Caesar

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters'...

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Stories of Christmas
Stories of Christmas

A compilation on DVD that includes "Nora's Christmas Gift," a 1989 follow-up to "Mr Krueger's Christ...

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Driving Me Crazy
Driving Me Crazy

Meet Elliot Brown. He is one of Brooklyn's most neurotically sweet and eligible bachelors . . . who ...

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Talking With
Talking With

Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of ...

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Love Boat II
Love Boat II

The further adventures of the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship....

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Still Breathing
Still Breathing

Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking ...

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Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!

In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is r...

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Swing Out, Sweet Land
Swing Out, Sweet Land

John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America....

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Marilyn
Marilyn

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in...

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The Bluegrass Special
The Bluegrass Special

Penny is a teenage horse trainer with a very special dream of becoming a jockey. She picks Woodhill ...

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3 Men and a Baby
3 Men and a Baby

Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends....

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Once You Meet a Stranger
Once You Meet a Stranger

This television remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) follows the same story, b...

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The Shady Hill Kidnapping
The Shady Hill Kidnapping

John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadwa...

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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...

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The Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard

Taking place in the Tower of London during the reign of King Henry VIII, this classic Gilbert & Sull...

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The Underground Man
The Underground Man

A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a s...

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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

Darryl F. Zanuck ignores the protests of his peers and makes a movie about antisemitism called "Gent...

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Murder by the Book
Murder by the Book

Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, ...

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Death Cruise
Death Cruise

Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured o...

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Midnight Lace
Midnight Lace

A TV reporter is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin in this remake of the 1960 Doris Day t...

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Footsteps on the Ceiling
Footsteps on the Ceiling

A meditation on ambition and careerism utilizing altered footage from All About Eve, with a soupçon ...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...

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