Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm

By: Jul. 16, 2012
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Just yesterday BroadwayWorld reported that  Broadway star and Academy Award winner Celeste Holm has died. She was 95. We pay tribute to Holm with photos from her career below.

Holm took the stage in 27 Broadway productions. Her most recent appearance was in 1991's I Hate Hamlet. She made her debut on the Great White Way in 1938's Gloriana and originated the role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma!. She has also appeared in Broadway's The Time of Your Life, Another Sun, The Return of the Vagabond, Eight O'Clock Tuesday, My Fair Ladies, Papa Is All, All the Comforts of Home, The Damask Cheek, Bloomer Girl, Affairs of State, The King and I, Anna Christie, His and Hers, Interlock, Third Best Sport, Invitation to a March, Mame, Candida, The Grass Harp, Mama, Habeas Corpus, The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall and more. In 1994, Holm participated in the Off-Broadway Encores! Concert version of Allegro.

Holm won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film Gentlemen's Agreement and was also nominated for Come to the Stable and All About Eve. Holm's most recent film is the comedy College Debts, set for 2013. Her other film credits include Driving Me Crazy, Alchemy, Still Breathing, Three Men and a Baby, Backstairs at the White House, Bittersweet Love, Tom Sawyer, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, High Society, The Tender Trap, Three Little Girls in Blue and many more.

On television, Holm was nominated for Emmy Awards for Insight and Backstairs at the White House, as well as a Daytime Emmy for Loving. She played roles in the TV series Nancy, Archie Bunker's Place, Falcon Crest, The Beat, Promised Land, The Love Boat, Touched by an Angel and more.

She is survived by her third husband, Frank Basile, and her sons. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made, Holm's family members told NY1, but a memorial is expected to be held in the city.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm attending opening night of "Noises Off" at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City. Nov. 1, 2001.

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm NOVEMBER 1, 2001 OPENING NIGHT OF BROADWAY'S NOISES OFF AT THE Brooks Atkinson THEATRE IN NEW YORK CITY.

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm Opening Night of "Sweet Smell of Success" Martin Beck Theater, NYC 3/14/2002

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm Attending The American Theatre Wing's Annual Luncheon at the Pierre Hotel, New York City. April 14, 2003

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm Attending The American Theatre Wing's Annual Luncheon at the Pierre Hotel, New York City. April 14, 2003

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm Attending The American Theatre Wing's Annual Luncheon at the Pierre Hotel, New York City. April 14, 2003

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm arriving to the 61st Annual Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall New York City on June 10, 2007.

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm & husband Frank Basile arriving for the Opening Night Performance of Manhattan Theatre Club's MAURITIUS at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. October 4, 2007

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm & Frank Basile arriving to the 61st Annual Tony Awards held at Radio City Music Hall New York City on June 10, 2007.

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm attending the closing night after party for APPLAUSE at NY City Center Encores! New York City, February 10, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm (Karen Richards - ALL ABOUT EVE) & Kate Burton (Karen Richards - APPLAUSE) attending the closing night after party for APPLAUSE at NY City Center Encores! New York City, February 10, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Charles Strouse & Celeste Holm attending the closing night after party for APPLAUSE at NY City Center Encores! New York City, February 10, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm attending the closing night after party for APPLAUSE at NY City Center Encores! New York City, February 10, 2008 .

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm (Karen Richards - ALL ABOUT EVE) attending the closing night after party for APPLAUSE at NY City Center Encores! New York City, February 10, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm & husband Frank Basile arriving for the Princess Grace Awards honoring Glenn Close at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. October 15, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm arriving for the Princess Grace Awards honoring Glenn Close at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. October 15, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm arriving for the Princess Grace Awards honoring Glenn Close at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. October 15, 2008

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm attending the 65th Annual Theatre World Awards held at the MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City. The Theatre World Award celebrates the oldest Award given for Broadway and Off-Broadway Debuts. June 2, 2009

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Haydn Gwynne & Celeste Holm attending the 65th Annual Theatre World Awards held at the MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City. The Theatre World Award celebrates the oldest Award given for Broadway and Off-Broadway Debuts. June 2, 2009

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm attending the 65th Annual Theatre World Awards held at the MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York City. The Theatre World Award celebrates the oldest Award given for Broadway and Off-Broadway Debuts. June 2, 2009

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm arriving the Broadway Opening Night Performance of ALL ABOUT ME at the Henry Miller Theatre, New York City. March 18, 2010

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm & Frank Basile arriving the Broadway Opening Night Performance of ALL ABOUT ME at the Henry Miller Theatre, New York City. March 18, 2010

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Actors Celeste Holm, Dame Edna, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Michael Feinstein, musician Valerie Simpson, actress Elaine Stritch, actress Judith Light, musician Dave Koz , musician Nick Ashford and actress Gloria Reuben Backstage after the Broadway Opening Finale & Night Curtain Call for ALL ABOUT ME at the Henry Miller Theatre in New York City. March 18, 2010

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Dame Edna & Celeste Holm backstage after the Broadway Opening Finale & Night Curtain Call for ALL ABOUT ME at the Henry Miller Theatre in New York City. March 18, 2010

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Dame Edna & Celeste Holm backstage after the Broadway Opening Finale & Night Curtain Call for ALL ABOUT ME at the Henry Miller Theatre in New York City. March 18, 2010

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm & Michael Feinstein backstage after the Broadway Opening Finale & Night Curtain Call for ALL ABOUT ME at the Henry Miller Theatre in New York City. March 18, 2010

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm & Frank Basile attending the 'Friends of Arts' Awards at the Princeton Club in New York City.

Photo Coverage: Remembering Celeste Holm



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