Actress Celeste Holm dies at 95

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Oscar-winning actre-ss Celeste Holm — who was the original girl who couldn’t say no in the musical Oklahoma! — has died aged 95, her family and reports said on Sunday.

Holm, who won the best supporting actress Academy Award in 1948 for Gentlemen’s Agre-ement and later appeared in High Society (1956), died at her home in New York.
She was admitted to hospital a week ago, said her niece Amy Phillips, cited by CNN. “She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby,” she said.
She also garnered Oscar nominations in 1950 for Come to the Stable, in which she played a French nun, and in 1951 for All About Eve, which starred Bette Davis.
The New York-born actress made her professional debut in a production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring Leslie Howard, and got her first big part on Broadway in 1940, opposite Gene Kelly.
The role which really made her name was Ado Annie in the original production of Oklahoma! in 1943, in which she sang I Cain’t Say No!