Trivia of Celeste Holm

 Trivia of Celeste Holm (29 April 1917 - 15 July 2012)

*Holm's first professional theatrical role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard. She first appeared on Broadway in a small part in Gloriana (1938).Her first major part on Broadway was in William Saroyan's revival of The Time of Your Life (1940) as Mary L. with fellow newcomer Gene Kelly.

*For her role in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), she won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.Though Holm is on record as saying that she found her leading man Gregory Peck to be no fun to work with.

*Celeste Holm spoke about her bad experience with Bette Davis on the first day of shooting All About Eve (1950) : "I walked onto the set... on the first day and said, 'Good morning,' and do you know her reply? She said, 'Oh shit, good manners.' I never spoke to her again - ever."While Bette Davis admitted in an interview, "Filming All About Eve was a very happy experience... the only bitch in the cast was Celeste Holm."

*Teamed up with Loretta Young in film Come To The Stable (1950) .The film that tells how two French religious sisters come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital.In 1950's , Fox Studio announced plans for a sequel called "A Spark in the Night" that would reunite Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as nuns toiling in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, but it was never filmed.

*Following her divorce from Ralph Nelson, Holm put her son Ted Nelson in the care of her parents in order to pursue her acting career. She saw him only in between breaks from shooting or rehearsals, but maintained a closer relationship with him when Ted became an adult.Ted became an innovator in the information technology industry. It was Ted Nelson who coined the term "hypertext", in the early 1960s.

*She was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan and appointed Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav by King Olav of Norway in 1979.

*On April 2004, on her 87th birthday, Holm married opera singer Frank Basile, who was 41 years old. The couple had met in October 1999 at a fundraiser for which Basile had been hired to sing. Soon after their marriage, Holm and Basile sued to overturn the irrevocable trust that was created in 2002 by Daniel Dunning, Holm's younger son. The trust was ostensibly set up to shelter Holm's financial assets from taxes though Basile contended the real purpose of the trust was to keep him away from her money. The lawsuit began a five-year battle, which cost millions of dollars, and according to an article in The New York Times, left Holm and her husband with a "fragile hold" on their apartment, which Holm had purchased for $10,000 cash in 1953 from her film earnings, and which in 2011 was believed to be worth at least $10,000,000.