Oral history interview with Celeste Holm, 1959.

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

Subjects

• Acting.
• Actors.
• Actresses--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Holm, Celeste, 1917-2012--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture acting.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Theater.