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Oral history interview with Celeste Holm, 1959

Creator: Holm, Celeste, 1917-2012
Project: Popular arts project.
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Phys. Desc. :sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Actress

Scope and Contents

First job on New York stage, "Papa is All," "The Damask Cheek"; work in night clubs and USO; directors and their styles, including Elia Kazan, George M. Cohan, Lawrence Langner, Alfred Lunt, Joseph Mankiewicz; Marilyn Monroe; social life in Hollywood; opinions about actors and politics; experience in post World War II Germany; acting philosophy. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

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