Celeste HolmFilmography

Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

Touched by an Angel: Vengeance is Mine

Synopsis: This is the first episode of a two-part story, which originally concluded on the Touched by an Angel spinoff series Promised Land. Monica (Roma Downey) and her fellow angels once again pay a visit to the family of Russell Greene (Gerald McRaney), on the one-year anniversary of the traffic accident Read More

Still Breathing

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Joanna Going

Synopsis: This romantic fantasy from writer, director, and producer James F. Robinson, stars Brendan Fraser as Fletcher McBracken, a starry-eyed San Antonio puppeteer who, like his father and grandfather before him, has a mystical vision of the woman he's fated to marry. Believing that she'll be found in Read More

Touched By an Angel: Joe's Return, Part 1

Synopsis: This opening episode of Touched by an Angel's fourth season is actually the first half of a "crossover" story, with the conclusion appearing on the spinoff series Promised Land. Heavenly caseworkers Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) are dispatched to the town of Chicory Creek, home of Read More

Touched By an Angel: Promised Land

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 15, 1996, the third-season opener of Touched by an Angel is actually the pilot episode for the spinoff series Promised Land, which debuted two days later on September 17. Down in the dumps because she has failed her most recent assignment, Heavenly caseworker Monica Read More

Once You Meet a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed for television, Once You Meet a Stranger is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, using the same Patricia Highsmith novel as its source but transforming the protagonists into females. A chance meeting brings together former child star Sheila Gaines (Jacqueline Bisset) and the Read More

Cheers: No Rest for the Woody

Synopsis: Anxious to afford an engagement ring for Kelly (Jackie Swanson), Woody (Woody Harrelson) takes a part-time job as a gravedigger. Unfortunately, the extra work load -- combined with the spookiness of his new surroundings -- causes him to begin hallucinating, not a pretty sight to behold for Kelly's Read More

Christine Cromwell: In Vino Veritas

Synopsis: In this episode of the series, Cromwell proves that the owner of a California winery did not murder his brother who also owned the company and with whom he was always feuding. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Christine Cromwell: Only the Good Die Young

Synopsis: In this episode of the series, defense attorney Cromwell thinks that the bizarrely murdered members of an investment club were killed for money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend - The Definitive Visual Biography

Synopsis: This video is a close-up of Marilyn Monroe as seen by some of those who knew her best. The award-winning program is filled with memories as told by her friends and fellow actors, including Celeste Holm, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Susan Strasberg, and Josh Logan. Clips from her best moments Read More

Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night

Synopsis: In this episode, defense attorney Cromwell investigates the case of a woman accused of killing her rich husband. She discovers an underlayer of greed and adultery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Polly

Actors: Celeste Holm, Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: There were those in 1989 who bellyached that Disney Television's Polly was a far from faithful adaptation of Eleanor Porter's classic novel Pollyanna. What they meant was that Polly did not resemble the 1960 Hayley Mills movie version of Pollyanna, which itself played fast and loose with the Read More

Christine Cromwell: Easy Come, Easy Go

Synopsis: In this drama, legal eagle Cromwell must protect her client who has been wrongly accused of killing a grifter. She is up against a crafty, and earnest police officer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Men and a Baby

Actors: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: Three Men and a Baby is an Americanized remake of the 1985 French comedy hit Three Men and a Cradle. Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg play three upwardly mobile New York bachelors who share an apartment. Their even-keel lifestyle is thrown out of whack when a young woman leaves a baby Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Love That Lies

Synopsis: While assisting Deputy DA Carol Baldwin (Kathleen Lloyd) with her prosecution of a very wealthy and powerful man, Magnum is hired by an elderly woman (Celeste Holm) to locate the birth certificate for the child she'd given up for adoption nearly three decades earlier. What Magnum finds is evidence Read More

Murder by the Book

Actors: Robert Hays

Synopsis: Robert Hays stars in Murder by the Book in the dual role of mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer and his creation, hard-boiled private eye Biff Deegan. While writing his latest book, Mercer becomes so immersed in his material that he inadvertently causes Biff to come to life. Mercer teams up Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Marilyn Monroe - Beyond the Legend

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Joshua Logan, Susan Strasberg, Don Murray

Synopsis: This documentary of Marilyn Monroe takes a novel approach in not dwelling on her love affairs and concentrating on her film career. Film clips and press conferences accompany interviews of Marilyn's friends and co-stars such as Shelly Winters, Robert Mitchum, Susan Strasberg, and Joshua Logan. Read More

Jessie

Synopsis: The Tucson Police Department are astounded by a criminal psychiatrist who captures crooks by using her training. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

This Girl for Hire

Synopsis: In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Midnight Lace

Synopsis: Like the 1960 theatrical feature of the same name, the made-for-TV Midnight Lace was inspired by Matilda Shouted Fire, a novel by Janet Green. Mary Crosby stars as Cathy Preston, the role originally essayed by Doris Day in the 1960 film, while Gary Frank steps into the old Rex Harrison role as Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

The Love Boat II

Actors: Celeste Holm, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Diane Stilwell, Lyle Waggoner, Fred Grandy, Quinn K. Redeker

Synopsis: This second of two pilot films for the Love Boat TV series was originally telecast on January 21, 1977. After the shakedown cruise, several of the actors playing the crew of the Pacific Princess were replaced. In Love Boat 2, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell and Fred Grandy portray the roles they would be Read More

The Wonderful World of Disney: The Bluegrass Special

Actors: William Windom, Celeste Holm, Devon Ericson

Synopsis: This 1977 installment in the Wonderful World of Disney anthology series tells the story of Penny, a teenage girl who was raised on a horse farm, and dreams of becoming a jockey herself. But the world of racing rarely includes women, and nobody accepts Penny's aspirations until one fateful day Read More

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Actors: Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer, Michael Parks, Ronee Blakely, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Larry Cohen's pseudo-biography of J. Edgar Hoover (Broderick Crawford) was virtually howled off the screens upon its release in 1977. Today, with the cross-dressing Hoover so much a matter of historical record that even Oliver Stone didn't bother to make too much of a point of it in Nixon, the Cohen Read More

Bittersweet Love

Actors: Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda, Scott Hylands

Synopsis: Michael and Patricia meet in an unusual way – while he is on a date and is trying to retrieve his date’s car keys from a fountain. When Michael’s date abandons him, he hangs out with Patricia and these two nice young people soon find themselves falling in love. They decide to wed and hold the Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

The Underground Man

Synopsis: The Underground Man was the pilot film for a series based on Ross MacDonald's private eye hero Lew Archer (the source of Paul Newman's film appearances as "Lew Harper"). Most of the elements of the factory-approved MacDonald formula are put into effect here: An old flame, a seemingly cut-and-dried Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Crossfire

Synopsis: A Bay Area college campus is besieged by a mysterious sniper, who shoots the mistress of a prominent professor before killing the professor himself. Can it be that the prof's widow Mrs. Shaninger (Celeste Holm) knows more about the supposedly random killings than she's letting on? Featured in the Read More

Death Cruise

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, six persons have won a cruise-ship vacation, but they find that the awards were just a trick to begin a killing game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Tom Sawyer

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: Mark Twain's classic tale is brought to the screen for the fourth time, this time with a tuneful score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, who also wrote the screen adaptation. Johnny Whitaker stars as Tom Sawyer, with Jeff East in his first film role as Huck Finn. Jodie Foster is also on Read More

The Delphi Bureau

Actors: Celeste Holm

Synopsis: Delphi Bureau was the pilot film for a short-lived TV espionage series. Lawrence Luckinbill plays an operative for a secret agency that answers only to the US President. His current mission is to locate an entire fleet of obsolete Air Force planes that have vanished without a trace. Very ordinary Read More

Brass Ring

Synopsis: Boxer Lazaro Perez is suspended when he punches out an obstreperous reporter. Feeling partly responsible, Crime magazine editor Dan Farrell (Robert Stack) tries to help the young fighter. Farrell soon learns that the boy's manager (Van Johnson) may be arranging a fixed bout. Brass Ring Read More

The F.B.I.: The Executioners, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the FBI continues to exert pressure on La Cosa Nostra, even while a bitter turf war between two mob families threatens to destroy the organization from within. Things come to head when gangland boss Leo Roland (Walter Pidgeon) orders the murder of potential Read More

The Fugitive: Concrete Evidence

Synopsis: In Coleman, Nebraska, Steve Dexter--actually Richard Kimble (David Janssen)--is hired by construction boss Pat Patton (Jack Warden). A local pariah ever since one of his building collapsed and killed three children, Patton is determined to make up for his past misdeeds by erecting a new downtown Read More

The F.B.I.: The Executioners, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the FBI squares off against La Cosa Nostra (evidently J. Edgar Hoover had finally acknowledged the fact that Organized Crime really did exist!) Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is hoping that dissension within the ranks of the Mob will cause the Read More

Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding

Actors: Sandra Dee, George Hamilton, Celeste Holm, Bill Bixby, Dick Kallman

Synopsis: In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI

Actors: Celeste Holm, Susan Strasberg, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of the weekly TV series The FBI. The series' usual stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Philip Abbott and Stephen Brooks are joined on this occasion by guest artists Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm Read More

Cinderella

Actors: Stuart Damon, Walter Pidgeon, Ginger Rogers, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Lesley Ann Warren plays the title role in this television production of the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III musical. Cinderella (Warren) is a sweet and pretty young woman who has been given a poor hand by fate; her stepmother (Jo Van Fleet) treats her cruelly, and while her Read More

The Fugitive: The Old Man Picked a Lemon

Synopsis: Working as a fruit picker for wealthy citrus grower Leland Hagerman (Byron Morrow), Kimble (David Janssen)--alias "Jim Wallace"--promises his dying boss that he'll look after Hagerman's ne'er-do-well son Blaine (Ben Piazza). This proves difficult when, upon Blaine's return home, he turns out to be Read More

Bachelor Flat

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm, Francesca Bellini

Synopsis: Another in a series of American comedies of manners, this film was written and directed by Frank Tashlin with his usual grace and elegance. Terry-Thomas plays a meek archeology professor named Bruce Patterson who is attracted to bones. His salivating female college students are attracted to him. Read More

High Society

Actors: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund

Synopsis: High Society is a glossy Technicolor-and-VistaVision musical remake of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story (1940), decked out with million-watt star power and a Cole Porter score. Set amongst the rich and famous in Newport, RI, the story revolves around the wedding plans of socialite Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly Read More

Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis: This live, full-color musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk was one of NBC's most ambitious productions, costing $300,000 and utilizing 17 sets, all specially constructed at the network's vast Brooklyn studios. Though set in olden times, this version has a decidedly contemporary slant, with Read More

The Tender Trap

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm, Jarma Lewis, Lola Albright

Synopsis: Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith's Broadway hit The Tender Trap is transformed into a beguiling Frank Sinatra film vehicle. Sinatra plays a Manhattan showbiz agent, Charlie Y. Reader, who enjoys the attentions of several willing young ladies. At an audition, Charlie meets aspiring actress Julie Read More

Champagne for Caesar

Actors: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter

Synopsis: This comedy stars Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position with a large soap company, but Burnbridge Walters (Vincent Price), the firm's willfully eccentric president, falls into a "trance" while interviewing Beauregard and decides not Read More

All About Eve

Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill

Synopsis: Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Bette Davis), weaving a melancholy Read More

Come to the Stable

Actors: Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: A Christmastime TV perennial, Come to the Stable is the gentle saga of two French nuns (Celeste Holm with accent, Loretta Young without) who come to America in hopes of raising funds for a children's hospital. Travelling to a small New England town presciently named Bethlehem, the nuns befriend Read More

A Letter to Three Wives

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas

Synopsis: Three wives, played by Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell, are about to embark on a boat trip when each receives a letter, written by a mutual friend named Addie, informing her that Addie is about to run off with one of their husbands. In flashback, each wife wonders if it is her marriage Read More

Everybody Does It

Actors: Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: A remake of Wife, Husband and Friend (1938), Everybody Does It is a frantic satire of the opera world. Businessman Paul Douglas is forced to suffer in silence when his wife (Celeste Holm) decides to become an opera star. Compelled to bankroll a concert for his missus, Douglas meets genuine opera Read More

The Snake Pit

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig

Synopsis: "A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit -- and like most such encapsulations, it only scratches the film's surface. Olivia de Havilland stars as an outwardly normal young woman, married to loyal, kindly Mark Stevens Read More

Chicken Every Sunday

Actors: Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Young, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as the original memoirs of Rosemary Taylor. Set during the turn of the century on the American frontier, Emily Heffernan (eleste Holm) is the practical wife of foolish would-be Read More

Road House

Actors: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead

Synopsis: Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde. To get even with Wilde, Widmark frames him on a robbery charge, then has the unlucky fellow released in his Read More

Gentleman's Agreement

Actors: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, June Havoc

Synopsis: Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting Read More

Carnival in Costa Rica

Actors: Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere

Synopsis: This musical romance is set in the beautiful South American country and chronicles the love affair between a betrothed couple who secretly have fallen in love with other people. The young man loves a nightclub chanteuse, while the woman wants a handsome coffee-buyer. Now they must somehow let Read More

Three Little Girls in Blue

Actors: June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox pulled its script for Three Blind Mice out of mothballs once more for Three Little Girls in Blue. June Haver, Vera-Ellen and Vivian Blaine are the blue-clad trio, searching for wealthy husband in Atlantic City in 1905. As in all other versions of this Stephan Powys story, two of Read More

Shady Hill Kidnapping

Actors: George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Celeste Holm

Synopsis: Presented by The Broadway Theatre Archive, The Shady Hill Kidnapping is one of a variety of plays televised between the 1960s and '80s. Written by John Cheever, this satire centers around a series of phony kidnappings and a strange penchant for kidney-shaped swimming pools. The Shady Hill Read More

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