Celeste Holm
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Biography: Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and was nominated for her roles in Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950). She also is known for her performances in The Snake Pit (1948), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and High Society (1956). Description above from the Wikipedia article Celeste Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 29, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 15, 2012
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All About Eve
Overview: From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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Road House
Overview: A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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High Society
Overview: With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-17
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The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
Overview: Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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Cinderella
Overview: After the success of the live 1957 Cinderella on CBS (with Julie Andrews), the network decided to produce another television version. The new script hewed closer to the traditional tale, although nearly all of the original songs were retained and performed in their original settings. Added to the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for South Pacific but not used.
Genres: Fantasy Romance TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-22
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Gentleman's Agreement
Overview: A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Alchemy
Overview: Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known professor?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-25
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The Tender Trap
Overview: A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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The Snake Pit
Overview: Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-04
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A Letter to Three Wives
Overview: A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-20
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Polly
Overview: An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Bachelor Flat
Overview: Professor Bruce Patterson is constantly having to fight off the advances of his young female students and is engaged to Helen Bushmill. While Helen goes on vacation, Bruce decides to stay at her apartment but is surprised by the arrival of Libby, Helen's 17-year-old daughter. Having never been told by Helen of this daughter, Bruce assumes she's another student. During her stay, Libby is noticed by an amorous neighbor, Mike.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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Come to the Stable
Overview: Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-27
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College Debts
Overview: A Midwest college student eager to pay for his tuition at a prestigious acting program in New York City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Backstory: 'All About Eve'
Overview: A documentary about the making of the 1950 film "All About Eve."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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Bittersweet Love
Overview: A pregnant woman and her husband discover they are half-brother and half-sister, thanks to his father and her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Chicken Every Sunday
Overview: A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Overview: Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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Three Little Girls in Blue
Overview: Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Carnival in Costa Rica
Overview: Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Everybody Does It
Overview: Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-24
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Polly: Comin' Home!
Overview: Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-18
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This Girl For Hire
Overview: In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
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The Delphi Bureau
Overview: A government agent with a photographic memory is assigned to solve the disappearance of an entire fleet of old Air Force planes. Pilot for short-lived TV series
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-06
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Overview: The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Genres: Family Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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Nora's Christmas Gift
Overview: Nora spends her time feeling sorry for herself as she faces hearing problems and blindness. But at the Bennington Christmas Pageant, Nora receives a special gift - a sure knowledge that Jesus Christ lives and loves her.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Kilroy
Overview: Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved in the affairs of the town and hilarity ensues. The mayor of the city, fearing Oscar Kilroy's popularity, schemes to discredit him by entrusting the management of the city dog pound to him. However, against all odds, Oscar Kilroy takes his work to heart at the pound and implements a plan to save the condemned dogs.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-14
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
Overview: A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-15
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Champagne for Caesar
Overview: When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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Stories of Christmas
Overview: A compilation on DVD that includes "Nora's Christmas Gift," a 1989 follow-up to "Mr Krueger's Christmas." In this film, veteran stage and screen actress Celeste Holm appears with the Tabernacle Choir. She portrays an elderly widow who faces blindness and hearing problems at Christmastime but overcomes the resulting depression through attendance at the choir's Christmas concert. "Mr.Krueger's Christmas" is on this compilation as well, along with "The Nativity" and "The Story of the Other Wise Man," an animated dramatization of Henry Van Dyke's beloved fictional tale about one of the wise men from the East who misses the opportunity to see the Christ Child because compassionate service to others delays him en route.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Driving Me Crazy
Overview: Meet Elliot Brown. He is one of Brooklyn's most neurotically sweet and eligible bachelors . . . who also happens to be pushing forty and living with his mother. Not getting any younger, Elliot embarks on a 3000 mile road trip across the country to take a chance on a girl he has never met. His travel companion? Her fun-loving sister. Now, he must face his fears, confront his past and learn to take risks to be the man worthy of her love. Buckle up. It's going to be a crazy drive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-06
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Talking With
Overview: Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton twirler, washed-up rodeo cowgirl, tattoed woman, and older woman in the twilight of her years talking with us about their experiences, in the poetic language that Jane Martin is known for bringing to all her stage characters. Kathy Bates does a wonderful job of translating these dead-on characters (talking directly to camera) from stage to screen. "Jane Martin" first came to prominence at the prestigious Louisville-based Humana Theatre Festival it was recently revealed that "she" is none other than the Festival's artistic director, Jon Jory.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-19
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Love Boat II
Overview: The further adventures of the passengers and crew of a luxury cruise ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-21
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Still Breathing
Overview: Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-01
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Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
Overview: In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-10
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Swing Out, Sweet Land
Overview: John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Marilyn
Overview: This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-18
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The Bluegrass Special
Overview: Penny is a teenage horse trainer with a very special dream of becoming a jockey. She picks Woodhill to compete in the upcoming Bluegrass Special; Woodhill is a beautiful race horse with a bad reputation who threw and injured his rider during a race in Tijuana. Penny's devotion and determination are an inspiration to anyone who believes that dreams can come true.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-22
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3 Men and a Baby
Overview: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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Once You Meet a Stranger
Overview: This television remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) follows the same story, but has changed the genders of the lead characters from male to female. Sheila Gaines is a former child star whose first husband is unwilling to give her a divorce. A chance meeting with Margo Anthony on a train leads to a conversation where the mentally unstable Margo, who hates her mother, suggests that they swap murders, so as to solve their problems. Although she thinks nothing of the conversation, Sheila's life takes a surprising turn when her husband is murdered by Margo. Now Margo wants Sheila to do her part of "the deal." With the police on her tail and Margo constantly in her face, Sheila must find a way out of this tangled web.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-25
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The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Overview: John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-12
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Overview: Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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The Yeomen of the Guard
Overview: A teleplay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's most serious opera presented on Hallmark Hall of Fame.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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The Underground Man
Overview: A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-06
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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Overview: Darryl F. Zanuck ignores the protests of his peers and makes a movie about antisemitism called "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-21
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Murder by the Book
Overview: Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan, constantly appears to him as a hallucination. Intent on getting rid of Biff, and replacing him with a more civilized detective, Mercer soon finds himself in a genuine mystery involving art fraud, murder, and a beautiful lady in peril.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-17
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Death Cruise
Overview: Several couples are notified that they have won an ocean cruise, but they actually have been lured onto a ship so that they can be murdered.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-30
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Midnight Lace
Overview: A TV reporter is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin in this remake of the 1960 Doris Day thriller.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-09
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Footsteps on the Ceiling
Overview: A meditation on ambition and careerism utilizing altered footage from All About Eve, with a soupçon of reflection on the themes of memory, film within gay culture and video image processing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Overview: Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-14
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