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The Opposite Sex

as Lucy

1956
Oklahoma!

as Aunt Eller

1955
Dangerous When Wet

as Ma Higgins

1953
The Great Dan Patch

as Aunt Netty

1949
Driftwood

as Mathilda

1947
Home in Indiana

as Penelope 'Penny' Bolt

1944
The Gang's All Here

as Mrs. Peyton Potter

1943
Moon Over Miami

as Aunt Susan 'Sue' Latimer

1941
Tall, Dark and Handsome

as Winnie Sage

1941
The Perfect Snob

as Martha Mason

1941
Down Argentine Way

as Binnie Crawford

1940
Flying High

as Pansy Potts

1931
Palmy Days

as Helen Martin

1931
Charlotte Greenwood Charlotte Greenwood

Birthday

1890-06-25

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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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