Celeste Holm

On stage 23 productions, 53 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

High Society

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In the literature8 passages

• CELESTE HOLM , star of stage and screen, was the original Ado Annie in Oklahoma! She appeared in many other Broadway productions, including The Time of Your Life , Invitation to a March , The King and I , and Bloomer Girl.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• CELESTE HOLM: We used to eat lunch at Walgreens, and then we would go and look for jobs. Walking up Forty-Fourth Street, I ran into Richard Whorf, who was in the Lunts’ National Company. He said they were casting for The Taming of the Shrew, and I’d be perfect for Bianca. “Fine,” I said, “but how do I get past the woman at the door?”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• CELESTE HOLM: One day I read in the New York Times that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were working together for the first time, doing a musical based on Green Grow the Lilacs . It was during the war, and I was working in the Stage Door Canteen in the basement of the Forty-Fourth Street Theater, waiting on tables and dancing with t…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• ELAINE STEINBECK: Celeste has made up more stories. But I did lean over to Dick and Oscar and say, “Guess who’s going to audition for you next? Celeste Holm.”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• CELESTE HOLM: The voice from the orchestra continued, “My name is Richard Rodgers. What are you going to sing?”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• CELESTE HOLM: Opening night in New Haven, Lawrence Langner came into my dressing room. “Celeste,” he said, “I hate to bother you on an opening night, but just remember the Chaplinesque quality of your part. The fact that Ado Annie can’t say no is a great tragedy to her. That’s the spine of the part.” And he walked out.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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