#Celeste Holm

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Propaganda

Celeste Holm (High Society, All About Eve)—[no propaganda beyond video clip below the cut]

Gloria Grahame (It's a wonderful life, Oklahoma, Human desire, The Cobweb)—I'm just going to link to this Film Comment article by Donald Chase, who makes the argument more eloquently than I can, although I think Grahame's Ado Annie is more than just the 'flirtatious goofus' he offhandedly describes her as. Between that role and Violet Bick in 'It's a Wonderful Life" she's played two of cinemas best irrepressibly horny ladies. That would be legacy enough for our hot vintage queen, but she is also GLORIOUS in 'In a Lonely Place' and consistently pulls focus from her co-star Humphrey Bogart, famously one of the most charismatic leading men of his day. I think she had even more, and hotter, chemistry with him than he ever had with Lauren Bacall, which is saying a lot I know. Anyway, your honor I love her and I want her to win it all.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Celeste:

Gloria:

Absolute Hollywood vamp, who had a fine comedic bone. Died far too young and was depicted by Annette Bening in the stellar Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

I’ve heard she’s horrendously miscast in Oklahoma (I have not seen it), so if you’re coming in with that framework PLEASE set that aside because gods does this woman shine in a NOIR!! She plays the battered woman more than a full on fatale, but she manages to bring interesting nuance to characters who are written as mere sultry divergences! Also: she’s sultry and an EXCELLENT divergence

She could do sexy, sweet and sinister in the same breath. She was crazy talented and had that lisp that melts me every time.

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Celeste Holm 1955

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The sparkling cast of All About Eve (1950)

From left to right:

George Sanders as Addison Dewitt

Gary Merrill as Bill Simpson

Bette Davis as Margo Channing

Ann Baxter as Eve Harrington

Celeste Holm as Karen Richards

Hugh Marlowe as Lloyd Richards

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A crew gets Celeste Holm ready for a portrait in February 1948 following a skiing accident in Sun Valley that resulted in her broken leg.

[thevisualvamp]

Cocktail hour - Cinematic moments

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Celeste Holm - Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella

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Celeste Holm

Drive my car

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Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

CELESTE HOLM (1917-2012)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1949 for Come to the Stable, 1950 for All About Eve

WINS:

Supporting- 1947 for Gentlemen's Agreement

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BILL NIGHY (1949-)

NOMINATIONS:

Lead- 2023 for Living

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Celeste Holm: Calla Longstrength in The Damask Cheek (1942 Broadway); Anna Christopherson in Anna Christie (1952 Broadway); Mame Dennis in Mame (1967 Broadway)

Maureen O’Sullivan: Edith Lambert in Never Too Late (1962 Broadway); Nettie Cleary in The Subject Was Roses (1965 Broadway); Daisy Brady in Keep It in the Family (1967 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Celeste Holm:

Maureen O’Sullivan:

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All About Eve

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“Where I go, you’ve got to go. You’re tied to me.”

Road House (1948) directed by Jean Negulesco

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Gentleman's Agreement (1947) dir. Elia Kazan.

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Celeste Holm

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Celeste Holm as Karen Richards

All About Eve (1950)

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Stay cozy.

@soft-homestyle

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Elia Kazan’s GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT, starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere and Dean Stockwell, premiered in New York City #OnThisDay in 1947.

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Celeste Holm