High Society fame Hollywood actress Celeste Holm died yesterday in New York at the age of 95. The senior actress, who won an Academy award for the best supporting actress for her performance in Gentlemen's Agreement in 1947, had been facing financial troubles and legal battles with her two sons over her fifth marriage to Frank Basile, a former waiter who was 45 years junior to her, for the past few years. The court case wiped out much of her savings and left her bankrupt. She breathed her last at her New York apartment on Central Park West surrounded by relatives. The yesteryear actress became famous by her Broadway role of Ado Annie in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. Holms roles in movies Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950) also earned her two Oscar nominations.
High Society fame Hollywood actress Celeste Holm died yesterday in New York at the age of 95. The senior actress, who won an Academy award for the best supporting actress for her performance in Gentlemen's Agreement in 1947, had been facing financial troubles and legal battles with her two sons over her fifth marriage to Frank Basile, a former waiter who was 45 years junior to her, for the past few years. The court case wiped out much of her savings and left her bankrupt. She breathed her last at her New York apartment on Central Park West surrounded by relatives. The yesteryear actress became famous by her Broadway role of Ado Annie in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!. Holms roles in movies Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950) also earned her two Oscar nominations.











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