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Charlotte Greenwood

Charlotte Greenwood

Actor · 1890 – 1977 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Frances Charlotte Greenwood (25 June 1890 - 28 December 1977) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and eventually starred on Broadway, movies and radio. Standing around six feet tall, she was best known for her long legs and high kicks. She earned the unique praise of being, in her words, the "...only woman in the world who could kick a giraffe in the eye." In 1913, Oliver Morosco cast her as Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo late in the run of L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk's The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (better known in its novelization as Tik-Tok of Oz), then commissioned a successful star vehicle titled So Long Letty, which is the role that made her a star. She starred with such luminaries as Charles Ruggles, Betty Grable, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Buster Keaton, and Carmen Miranda. Most of Greenwood's best work was done on the stage, and was lauded by such critics as James Agate, Alexander Woollcott and Claudia Cassidy. One of her most successful roles was that of Juno in Cole Porter's Out of This World in which she introduced the Porter classic "I Sleep Easier Now." Although the role was written with her in mind, film commitments prevented her from playing "Aunt Eller" in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit Oklahoma! (1943). She got her chance in the 1955 film version, just prior to retiring in 1956. Charlotte Greenwood died in Los Angeles, California of undisclosed causes, aged 87. She was married twice, first, unsuccessfully to actor Cyril Ring, brother of actress Blanche Ring, and secondly and happily to composer Martin Broones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlotte Greenwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie6.6

    Oklahoma!

    1955 · 197 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Oh, You Beautiful Doll

    1949 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Gang's All Here

    1943 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Driftwood

    1947 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.4

    The Opposite Sex

    1956 · 21 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Dangerous When Wet

    1953 · 25 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

    1931 · 33 votes

  • Movie6.9
  • Movie5.2

    Young People

    1940 · 10 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Palmy Days

    1931 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Tall, Dark and Handsome

    1941 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Down Argentine Way

    1940 · 30 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Great Dan Patch

    1949 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Up in Mabel's Room

    1944 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Man in Possession

    1931 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Wake Up and Dream

    1946 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Moon Over Miami

    1941 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Peggy

    1950 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Flying High

    1931 · 5 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Girls Will Be Boys

    1931 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.4

    The Christmas Party

    1931 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Glory

    1956 · 3 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Cheaters at Play

    1932 · 1 votes

  • Movie

    Orders Is Orders

    1933 · 1 votes

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