The historical today july 15, 2012, Hollywood legend actress Cilester Holme passed away

The role of Anne in the classic Broadway musical Oklahoma made Home famous overnight; she made her career peak in Hollywood with her wonderful performance as a female secretary in the Gentleman's Pact; she devoted her life to philanthropy, serving in nine charities at the same time. She also raised $20,000 for UNICEF with a 50 cents a signature. After his death, the lights on Broadway were extinguished for Home for a minute.

Cilester Holme was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917.

She is the only daughter of the family and her father is an insurance settler and artist. She was of Norwegian descent with her father and was knighted by the Norwegian royal family in 1997. Holme grew up in Manhattan.

Holm performed on stage in 1936. At the age of 25, Holme starred in a series of Broadway stage plays, including playwright William Saloyan's masterpiece Time of Your Life.

In the 1940s, the two great masters of the American music industry, Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, created the classic Broadway musical "Oklahoma", which created an indelible image of an amorous woman. This character made Holm famous overnight.

In 1941, she played the lead actress in the Broadway musical comedy The Brummer Girl.

Holm was favored by Twentieth Century Fox while his career was in full swing, leaving New York for Hollywood.

Her third film, the 1947 film Gentleman's Pact, starred hollywood star Gregory Pike, based on the novel by writer Laura Peck. An adaptation of Z. Hoberson's novel, it tells the story of a journalist who pretends to be a Jew in order to expose the depth and breadth of American anti-Semitism. In the film, Holm plays a female newspaper editor who can see hypocrisy and is at the same time intelligent and sophisticated. The role earned her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1948, she played a psychopath in the film The Snake's Den, starring Olivia de Havilland. He was subsequently nominated for two Oscars in 1949 and 1950 for his roles in The Singing Of the Virgins and Comet Beauty.

The History of the Three Wives in 1949.

The Gentle Trap (1955).

High Society (1956).

While starring in the film, Holm will still return to the stage. In the 1950s and 1960s, she starred in eight Broadway stage plays, including Gertrude Lawrence's The King and Me, Angela Lansbury's Mem, and the heroine in Anna Christie.

She then moved into television.

At the age of 73, Holme still had the charm of a fan and critic, and after 12 years of breaking the stage, in 1991, she participated in the stage play "I Hate Hamlet" in which she played a theater manager who had an old love with john Barrymore, a famous American actor in the 1920s and 1930s, and returned to talk to the ghosts of the ancients years later.

She has devoted her life to philanthropy and has worked for nine charities at the same time. She also raised $20,000 for UNICEF with a 50 cents a signature.

Later in his life, he also actively participated in the theater protection project, and was once arrested for protesting against the demolition of the theater.

He died at his home in Manhattan on July 15, 2012, at the age of 95.

Holm went through four marriages.

Representative works: "Gentleman's Agreement", "Oklahoma! "Comet Beauty", "To the Stables".

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was born in New York. American actor.

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