Charlotte Greenwood
Nacimiento : 1890-06-25, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Muerte : 1977-12-28
Historia
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.
Lucy
Trata de Kay Hilliard (June Allyson), una antigua cantante de cabaret que descubre que su marido Steven (Leslie Nielsen) tiene un asunto con Crystal Allen (Joan Collins). Kay es la última en enterarse del grupo de novias. Kay viaja a Reno para divorciarse de Steve, que se casa con Crystal. Cuando Kay se entera de que Crystal no está siendo sincera con Steve, inicia una lucha para recuperar a su marido
Miz Agnes Tilbee
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
Aunt Eller
Curly, un apuesto vaquero, está enamorado de Laurey, una tímida granjera, pero ambos son demasiado orgullosos y les cuesta admitir sus sentimientos. La llegada de un forastero desencadenará entre los dos hombres una guerra sin cuartel para conquistar a la chica.
Ma Higgins
En una pequeña granja de Arkansas, la familia Higgins comienza cada día con un vigoroso baño en el lago. Cuando Windy Webbe, promotor de un tónico para la salud llamado Liquapep, llega a la ciudad con un espectáculo itinerante, la familia asiste. Windy trata de convencer a la familia para que participe en un concurso de natación en Inglaterra con Liquapep como su patrocinador. Con la esperanza de ganar suficiente dinero para comprar un toro premiado para su explotación, "La Familia Liquapep" va a Inglaterra para participar en una famosa carrera en el Canal de la Mancha. Un día, durante el entrenamiento para el evento, Katy se separa del barco por una espesa niebla, y llega a un bote tripulado por André Lanet, por quien se siente atraída. La prueba se aplaza por el mal tiempo y Katy sueña con Tom y Jerry y un pulpo francés.
Mrs. Emilia Fielding
Cuando el profesor Brookfield y sus preciosas hijas Peggy y Susan llegan a la pequeña ciudad de Pasadena, en California, su nueva vecina, la señora Fielding inmediatamente toma el control, ayuda a la mudanza, e insta a las niñas a participar en el concurso de belleza anual Rose Bowl. A pesar de que no están encantadas, entran en la competencia. Mientras tanto, el hijo de la señora Fielding, Tom, se fija en Peggy, ignorante de que su corazón ya pertenece a un jugador de fútbol famoso. Así que trata de reorientar su interés a su hermana Susan.
Anna
Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
Aunt Netty
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.
Mathilda
Una niña (Natalie Wood) vive en el bosque con su abuelo en estado casi salvaje. Cuando éste muere, se dirige al pueblo y encuentra por el camino a un perro abandonado que ha caído de un avión. El médico del pueblo los acoge en su casa. Debido a su vestimenta y a su espontaneidad, la niña será objeto de las burlas de los demás niños y chocará con la hipocresía de una sociedad convencional.
Sara March
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Martha
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrieve the incriminating undergarment from Mabel's room before his wife Geraldine (Marjorie Reynolds) gets wise.
Penelope 'Penny' Bolt
Un muchacho con una inclinación a problemas es enviado a vivir con su tía y su tío en Indiana. A pesar de que en un primer momento no está feliz con el acuerdo, su amor por los caballos y su afecto por una joven potranca que planea correr le hacen la vida soportable. Él también encuentra el amor con Char, quien comparte su amor por los caballos.
Mrs. Peyton Potter
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
Mrs. Dugan
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Phoebe Gray
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.
Martha Mason
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values. Director Ray McCarey's 1941 comedy stars Lynn Bari, Cornel Wilde, Charles Ruggles, Anthony Quinn, Charlotte Greenwood, Alan Mowbray and Chester Clute.
Aunt Susan 'Sue' Latimer
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Winnie Sage
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Binnie Crawford
Una jovencita que se encuentra disfrutando de unas vacaciones en Argentina se enamora del dueño de un caballo de carreras (Don Ameche). Esta comedia, cuya mayor baza son los animados números musicales, consagró definitivamente a Betty Grable.
Kit Ballantine
Los padres de Wendy Ballantine deciden retirarse del negocio del espectáculo para que pueda tener una vida normal. No son bienvenidos en la pequeña ciudad hasta que una tormenta le permite a la familia mostrar sus cosas.
Lola Langdon
When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
Wanda Sinclair
Un chulesco productor de cine estadounidense llega a base militar de Inglaterra con el propósito de rodar una película y utilizar a los soldados como extras. El comandante de la base se niega, pero el productor y su secretaria se alían para obligarle a cambiar de opinión.
Mrs. Crozier
Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
Herself
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Pansy Potts
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Helen Martin
El ayudante de un falso vidente es confundido con un experto en eficacia y contratado en una panadería art déco. Las cosas se complican cuando el vidente y su banda intentan robar la nómina.
Clara
Una heredera se enamora del hombre designado para administrar sus bienes.
Sally Smith
After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.
Polly Hathaway
Reginald Irving, tímido entre los tímidos, es atropellado por Jeffrey Haywood, quien para ayudarle le lleva a casa de su prometida, Virginia Embrey, que vive con su hermana mayor, Angélica, y su madre.
A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in the hospital, sadder and sicker as a result of their experience.
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
Letty Robbins
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
