She lit up both stage and screen--will be greatly missed
Holm died earlier today at 95 years of age in her Manhattan home with her husband at her side. She'd recently been hospitalized for dehydration and suffered a heart attack.
The actress is perhaps best known on film for her Oscar and Golden Globe-winning turn in "Gentleman's Agreement," a 1947 movie which also starred Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire and was directed by Elia Kazan. In the film, Holm plays fashion editor Anne Dettrey, who befriends Peck's Philip Green, a widowed journalist.
Holm started on Broadway, earning critical acclaim for playing Ado Annie in the original Broadway cast of "Oklahoma!". She also starred on Broadway in "The King and I" and "Mame." When she made the leap to film, "Agreement" was just her third film role. She went on to star in "Come to the Stable" and "All About Eve," for which she received two more Oscar nominations.
Holm had roles in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's A Letter to Three Wives Charles Walters's The Tender Trap Anatole Litvak's The Snake Pit and High Society.
In more recent years, Holm appeared in "Three Men and a Baby" as Ted Danson's mother and on TV in "Touched by an Angel" and "Promised Land."
A grand dame indeed...
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