This intelligent, warmly maternal character actress first made her mark in the theater in the late 1930s... (Learn more)
Top Projects: Promised Land, All About Eve, Polly (View All)
- Watch on Fancast
- 1Full Length Videos
- 2Clips & Other Videos
Celeste Holm’s Milestones
| Made frequent guest appearances on TV programs like "Lux Video Theater", "U.S. Steel Hour", "Dr. Kildare", "Mr. Novak" and "The Fugitive" | |
| Played mother of Gerald McRaney in the CBS series "Promised Land"; also made appearances in the same role on CBS' "Touched By and Angel" | |
| Played regular role on the ABC series "The Delphi Bureau" | |
| Portrayed Jaclyn Smith's mom in the limited TV series "Christine Cromwell" (ABC) | |
| Portrayed the chaperone to the president's daughter in the NBC sitcom "Nancy" | |
| Was under contract with 20th Century-Fox | |
| 1936 | Stage acting debut with Pennsylvania stock company |
| 1936 - 1937 | Toured the USA understudying role of Ophelia in a production of "Hamlet", starring Leslie Howard |
| 1938 | Broadway debut in "Glorianna" |
| 1938 | Had featured role in the Broadway play "The Time of Your Life" |
| 1943 | Originated the role of Ado Annie in the groundbreaking Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" |
| 1944 | Starred in the Harold Arlen-E Y Harburg musical "Bloomer Girl" |
| 1946 | Film debut, "Three Little Girls in Blue" |
| 1947 | Had one of her best film roles in "Gentleman's Agreement"; won Best Supporting Actress Oscar |
| 1948 | Co-starred in "The Snake Pit" |
| 1948 | Provided voice of Addie in Joseph L Mankiewicz's award-winning "A Letter to Three Wives" |
| 1949 | Earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination as a French nun alongside Loretta Young in "Come to the Stable" |
| 1950 | Co-starred as the narrator Karen in classic film "All About Eve", written and directed by Mankiewicz; received third Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination |
| 1950 | Returned to stage work with "Affairs of State" (Broadway) |
| 1952 | Played the role of Anna in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I" |
| 1954 | Headlined own TV series "Honestly, Celeste!" (CBS) |
| 1955 | Offered a fine supporting turn in "The Tender Trap"; first of two films with Frank Sinatra |
| 1956 | Co-starred in a TV production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" (NBC) |
| 1956 | Supported Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby in the musical "High Society", based on Philip Barry's play "The Philadelphia Story"; last film for six years |
| 1966 | Succeeded Angela Lansbury in the title role of the Broadway musical "Mame"; toured in the part from 1967 until 1969 |
| 1967 | Cast as the fairy godmother in the ABC remake of "Cinderella", with a score by Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| 1968 | Earned an Emmy nomination for an appearance on the syndicated religious-themed program "Insight" |
| 1973 | Resumed feature film career after six year absence playing Aunt Polly in the musical "Tom Sawyer" |
| 1975 | Returned to Broadway as part of the American cast of the British hit "Habeas Corpus" |
| 1976 | Portrayed a nun in the NBC miniseries "Captains and the Kings" |
| 1977 | First played writer Janet Flanner in the one-woman show "Paris Was Yesterday" at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey; reprised role briefly Off-Broadway in 1979 |
| 1977 | Last film for ten years, "The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover" |
| 1979 | Cast as First Lady Florence Harding in "Backstairs at the White House" (NBC); earned Emmy nomination |
| 1979 | Returned to stage musical in the Broadway flop "The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall" |
| 1986 | Briefly joined the cast of the ABC soap opera "Loving", co-starring her fourth husband Wesley Addy |
| 1987 | Made one-shot return to films after a decade in "Three Men and a Baby" |
| 1989 | Had role of Miss Snow in "Polly", the NBC remake of "Pollyanna" |
| 1990 | Reprised role of Miss Snow in "Polly Comin' Home!" (NBC) |
| 1991 | Was back on Broadway in "I Hate Hamlet" |
| 1997 | Again made one-shot return to features after a decade in the independent film "Still Breathing", playing Brendan Fraser's grandmother |
| 2000 | Had recurring role on the UPN police drama "The Beat" |
| 2000 | Returned to the stage as co-star of "Don Juan in Hell" at Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theater |
You'll also like...
Something wrong with our information? LET US KNOW
