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Summary Actress Celeste Holm, who won Oscar for her role in Gentleman's Agreement, has died.
Niece Amy Phillips told television news network CNN Holm had been admitted to a New York City hospital last week, but her husband took her home this past Friday.She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with herhusband and friends and family nearby, Phillips told CNN.Holm was born and raised in New York City and began performing as a teenager in school plays and later in college before taking up acting as a profession.Her first major Broadway role came in a 1940 revival of The Time of Your Life, co-starring fellow newcomer Gene Kelly, and by 1943 she had earned wide recognition portraying Ado Annie in Rodgers & Hammersteins Oklahoma.Like many theater actors, Holm went to Hollywood where she won the role in director Elia Kazans tale of anti-semitism, Gentlemans Agreement, that won her the best supporting actress Oscar.She went on to work on several movies including 1950s All About Eve, and returned to her first love, Broadway. Over the years, Holm mastered the stage and screen, and worked in numerous television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including Fantasy Island, Falcon Crest and Archie Bunkers Place.
