Charlotte Greenwood is a Actor American born on 24 june 1890 at Philadelphia (USA)
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name Frances Charlotte GreenwoodNationality USABirth 24 june 1890 at Philadelphia (
USA)
Death 28 december 1977 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (
USA)
Frances Charlotte Greenwood (June 25, 1890 – December 28, 1977) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and 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). In 1916, Morosco commissioned a successful star vehicle stage play titled So Long Letty. This role made her a star; she reprised it in the 1929 movie of the same name.
She appeared 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". She had some discomforts with that play, as she had become a devout Christian Scientist and feared the play was too risqué. She also reportedly turned down a role as "Mother Superior" in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music partly because she felt she could not, in good conscience, play a nun because of her faith. One of her last movie roles was singing and dancing as the feisty matriarch, Aunt Eller, in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. Biography
Au théâtre (où elle est actrice, danseuse et — plus occasionnellement — chanteuse, se produisant notamment dans des vaudevilles), Charlotte Greenwood débute en 1912 à Broadway (New York) et y joue régulièrement jusqu'en 1927, dans une opérette de Franz Lehár (en 1913), cinq comédies musicales et cinq revues, avant une ultime prestation en 1950-1951, dans la comédie musicale Out of This World de Cole Porter.
Au cinéma, elle apparaît dans seulement trente-trois films américains, les trois premiers muets en 1915, 1918 et 1928, les trente suivants entre 1929 et 1956, année où elle se retire quasiment de l'écran — si l'on excepte un épisode d'une série télévisée diffusé en 1961 —. Notons que son premier film parlant en 1929 est So Long Letty, film musical de Lloyd Bacon, adaptation de la comédie musicale éponyme qu'elle avait créée à Broadway en 1916, tenant le rôle principal de Letty. Deux de ses films les mieux connus sont la version américaine de Buster se marie en 1931, comédie avec Buster Keaton (une version française alternative a aussi été réalisée), et le film musical Oklahoma ! en 1955, avec Gordon MacRae et Gloria Grahame.
Durant sa carrière, Charlotte Greenwood est également active à la radio. À ce titre, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.
Best films
(1955)
(Actress) Usually with