person

Charlotte Greenwood

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1890-06-24

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Charlotte Greenwood

Biography

​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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Love Your Neighbor

Oct 12, 1930

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Oklahoma!

Oct 10, 1955

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52

The Opposite Sex

Nov 15, 1956

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60

Dangerous When Wet

Jun 18, 1953

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67

Springtime in the Rockies

Nov 06, 1942

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61

Moon Over Miami

Jul 04, 1941

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60

Down Argentine Way

Oct 11, 1940

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52

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

Feb 28, 1931

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57

The Gang's All Here

Dec 24, 1943

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Baby Mine

Jan 08, 1928

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47

Star Dust

Apr 06, 1940

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56

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Jan 24, 1941

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46

Young People

Aug 30, 1940

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65

The Man in Possession

Jul 04, 1931

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61

Driftwood

Sep 15, 1947

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70

Palmy Days

Sep 23, 1931

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63

The Perfect Snob

Dec 19, 1941

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59

So Long Letty

Oct 16, 1929

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48

Flying High

Nov 14, 1931

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60

Up in Mabel's Room

Sep 12, 1944

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50

Glory

Jan 11, 1956

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65

Stepping Out

Apr 11, 1931

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55

Home in Indiana

Jun 15, 1944

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47

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Nov 11, 1949

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65

Wake Up and Dream

Dec 02, 1946

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49

The Christmas Party

Dec 17, 1931

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50

The Great Dan Patch

Jul 22, 1949

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50

Dixie Dugan

Mar 12, 1943

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Cheaters at Play

Jan 27, 1932

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Peggy

Jul 01, 1950

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Girls Will Be Boys

Jan 21, 1931

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Orders Is Orders

Jul 18, 1933

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Miss George Washington

Nov 19, 1916

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The Best of the Post

Oct 22, 1960