Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm was born on Apr 29, 1917 in USA. Celeste Holm's big-screen debut came with Carnival in Costa Rica directed by Gregory Ratoff in 1947. Celeste Holm is known for Polly: Comin' Home! directed by Debbie Allen, Keshia Knight Pulliam stars as Polly and Phylicia Rashad as Aunt Polly. Celeste Holm has got 6 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Celeste Holm achieved is High Falls Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Celeste Holm plays is Driving Me Crazy: Proof of Concept which will be released on Jan 01, 2012.

Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance. She would study acting at the University of Chicago and make her stage debut in 1936. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19 in 'The Time of Your Life'. She appeared in many successful plays, including "The Women", "Oklahoma!" and "Bloomer Girl". It was in the production of "Oklahoma!" that Celeste would sing the showstopper, "I Cain't Say No". She was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1946 and appeared in her first film, Three Little Girls in Blue (1946). With her third film, Le mur invisible (1947), she would win the Supporting Actress Oscar and a Golden Globe. Celeste would be nominated twice more for Academy Awards in the Les soeurs casse-cou (1949) and Ève... (1950). But, Celeste was a star who loved the stage so she left Hollywood, only to return for two MGM musicals in the 1950s. They were Le tendre piège (1955) and La Haute Société (1956). In addition to her stage career, Celeste appeared on television in her own series, Honestly, Celeste! (1954) and as a panelist on Who Pays? (1959). In 1970, Celeste returned to television series as the chaperon to the president's daughter on Nancy (1970). For the next two decades, she would appear on television in regular series, miniseries and movies. Celeste Holm died at age 95 of a heart attack on July 15, 2012.