Celeste Holm, the New York-born actress who made an indelible Broadway impression as an amorous country girl in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," earned an Academy Award as the knowing voice of tolerance in "Gentleman's Agreement" and went on to a six-decade screen and stage career, frequently cast as the wistful or brittle sophisticate, died early Sunday at her apartment in Manhattan. She was 95.
Her death was announced by Amy Phillips, a great-niece. Ms. Holm had a heart attack at Roosevelt Hospital in New York last week while being treated there for dehydration, but she was taken home on Friday. ...
Her film career flourished. She played a fellow psychiatric patient of Olivia de Havilland's character in "The Snake Pit" (1948). She earned two additional Oscar nominations, for portraying a French nun in "Come to the Stable" (1949) and a playwright's well-meaning wife in "All About Eve" (1950), the classic drama about the New York theater world.
Asked in 2007 how the art of acting had changed during the 70 years since she began her career, Ms. Holm told a writer for The Star-Ledger: "Truth is still truth. That’s what people go to theater for. To see our version of truth."
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