Celeste Holm--Rare TV Interviews, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe
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- Celeste Holm discusses her life and career in this three-part interview, including how she got started in the theater with Lynn Fontanne, filming "The Snake Pit" and working on "All About Eve" with Bette Davis, Gary Merrill and Marilyn Monroe.
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I’m so glad somebody cared to make these interviews and specials while these great stars and talent were still alive.
Also, it needs to be said, thank God for all the incredible regular people who gave these stars a break, a kind gesture, or a free meal. Without it, they very well might’ve never got their break. That sweet man from Sardi’s ❤️
Celeste was a good friend of mine for many years. She was always very fun to be with . I met her when she was still married to Wesley Addy. He was a true gentleman and quite quiet and reserved. She and I were involved in charities in New York. Then she married Frank. He took good care of her until she died. I miss her a lot.
I've always loved her, she was so talented! She seemed like she would have been a nice woman.
She seemed a real lady - thats a term i use very sparingly i might add
She seems like she would be fun to hang out with!❤️
I am Celeste Holm. You're all lying.
@Kevin McKenzie Well, as I stated above, she was very kind to us during an almost 4 hour lunch.
Celeste Holm was one of my favorites! I loved her in All About Eve.
My dad was a huge movie fan and he loved all the great actors and actresses of Hollywood's golden age. I came along in the mid-60s. I'd here my dad speak of these actors, but they weren't on TV or in the movies I was watching. Then I went to see Tom Sawyer with Celeste Holm. She was somebody my dad loved ... and I, too, fell in love with her Aunt Polly. It would be a long time before I came to appreciate classic films. But for all my childhood, I thought Celeste Holm was the greatest classic actress of all time. 25 years ago, she was presenting an award at a performing arts complex near my hometown. I so wanted to go and see her, but I couldn't. I've regretted that. Lovely lady.
Bette Davis, her dramatic skills were superb. A lot of stars said that she was difficult to work with. Not because she was a difficult person. It was just that she was a perfectionist. Davis is a Hollywood legend. If she'd been British, she would of been bestowed a knighthood. I thought that she was a brilliant actress. R.I.P Bette. Also Dame Olivia Dehavilland was a great actress who'd died just last month at the age of 104. God bless.❤🙏🙏🙏
Well, saying "shit, good manners" just because another great actress said "good morning" was not being perfectionist. It was rude, disrespectful and unprofessionnal towards a great dame. I am sure that her reputation was well earned. Personnally, I don't like her style. I think she's mannered and theatrical. I much prefer Holm or Barbara Stanwyck. Their styles have aged well.
@@Ninafan68 Well, you're entitled to your opinion !
@@garypatterson2055 do you think what she said to Celeste is being a perfectionist? She was a rude boorish bully.
Yes but Celeste's anecdote about Bette wasn't about her perfectionism... it was about her rudeness as a person .
I just love listening to her tell these stories. Enchanting! Also, the scene when Bette comes out to discover Anne Baxter play acting is also so funny! "Eve!", in that deep Bette Davis tone. Classic!
Thank you so much, I love Celeste Holm...
That was such a lovely and endearing story about the man in the restaurant.
I love how she copies the voice of the person she talked to when she tells her stories!
When Bette said “bumpy “ night , her diamond ring shines
When I think of Celeste helm I think of a pearl - durable, strong , beautiful , appropriate wherever she goes .
A pearl could also be thought of or seen as a grain of sand that serves as an irritant ...
Yeah, imitation or paste...
Snow, 1984, the new buses in NYC are in the shop because they keep breaking down so they're using old buses from the 1960s. Anyway the bus came to the corner and I raced inside, paid the driver and came face-to-face with Celeste Holm. I loved her so I said, "Are you who I think you are?" And she laughed that great giggle and said yes. Well, being a sophisticated New Yorker, I didn't want to bother her so I took my seat and I looked out the window and at the Regency movie theater which showed old Hollywood movies, they were showing, "Come to the Stable." I thought that was just terrific. I wish I could have spoken to her but she got off a few blocks later.
You should've taken the opportunity to talk to her because those opportunities never happen. How could you have not kept talking to her?
My grandma’s favorite actress. 🥰Made my daughter’s middle name Celeste.
my favourite actress of all time, so lovely to see her here singing and the pianist is in love with her I think
Great performances by great actress and actors that era still can’t be duplicated
'a true lady, considerate in every way', I alwys liked her thru my life, she seemed so very nice and fair...
Timeless and classical beauty. Her eyes are beautiful. ☺️👌🏻
I thought MuhaMAD only liked 6 year old girls.
I still think she’s incredible!!!
I love Betty Davis . She is the Best !
Lovely doesn’t sound like Ms Holms liked her.
Bette Davis
Robert Gardea I knew that. She passed in Oct 1989 in case you were not aware. And I was talking about her, not to her. Thanks.
So do I!!!!! She took no crap!!!!!! 🐶🐶🐶🐶
@@notnek202 She certainly did not. And it was mutual
Celeste is a special Lady
Yay Celeste. Always liked you and your way with things.
Good to have Celeste Holm's take on Bette Davis. A great actress, but difficult. Sheila Hancock has said similar things about Davis.
Bette Davis trashed Faye Dunaway yet we hear these stories of Bette behaving like this which shows what a hypocrite she was.
This is fantastic! Such wonderful Celeste Holm stories! Is there a part two?
No, these aired as three separate shorts. There might have been one more about "Gentlemen's Agreement," but I don't have it.
I met her when she was presenting a show in St. Louis. She was wonderful. I mentioned "Come to the Stable" with Loretta Young and she said, "You can always tell which nun I was in that film because I was Loretta always got great lighting and I was in the shadows." She had a great career and it was all of her own making. She took her craft seriously. She could do drama, comedy, sophisticated material, very versatile.
And they both got Oscar nominations. I believe Elsa Lanchester did also, for her superb cameo.
I love it Wayne Brasler, we forget theses people are just like you and I. We all are flawed even Hollywood Stars. I like your point.
I respected Loretta Young for not aborting her daughter! Clark Gable's daughter!
Wayne Brasler Just to go against the trend, and buck the ‘love-in’ a little bit, her remark about being denied good lighting seems to smack of SOUR GRAPES. Also, she was very boastful when describing herself and her ‘talent’ during the first half of this video.
Elizabeth Anderson: Did you respect her for her fucking “Swear Box” she kept on the set because she was such a good fucking pious Catholic bitch who got knocked up without being married and never told her daughter who her real father was after pretending to adopt a child that was really her own? A fucking hypocrite bitch. And then, she divorces her husband but waits until he dies before getting remarried so she could take communion. There are better people in life to admire. And you’ll likely vote for Trump because he respects women. That’s a joke!!
In 1993 I believe (maybe 94) there was a summer event in Manhattan to celebrate the films that were to be released that year.It was a very warm and humid day & there was a mini Parade on Broadway with floats publicizing the films to come. One, I remember was The Mask, with Jim Carrey. Later in the day there was an auction in one of the hotels to raise funds for....I believe the actors fund (not sure) One of the items was lunch for 2 at the Russian Tea Room with Celeste Holm. (The reason I was there) It was a young group of people gathered and I dare say not many knew who Celeste Holm really was. Well, I won the auction for 135.00. I was in shock! Lunch at the Tea Room was 10 time more than that. Several months later my cousin & I went to the Russian Tea Room. Celeste was running late as there were streets blocked off due to a Spike Lee film being shot. Her agent was there and made formalities and told us that in all probability when she arrives she will be playing 'The Star.' I had met her twice before at the Tony Award Supper Balls and she was always very kind to me even getting up to dance when I asked her. When she arrived we were introduced and she was carrying a brown manilla envelope that seemed quite full. She flung it across the table to the booth seat between my cousin & I and excused herself to the powder room. Her agent seemed apologetic but when she returned she once again went through formalities and explained about the traffic and apologized for being late. Her agent then said goodbye and wished us a good lunch. I mentioned about the 2 times I met her and she kindly tried to remember but I stopped her saying it was some time ago and you must meet 1000s of people. She immediately asked we call her Celeste as she opened the manila envelope and took out a cuticle trimmer. She used that for a minute or two and apologized. I then asked a few questions and the Hollywood history lesson began for both my cousin & I over lunch. We had the best table in the house and all who came in for lunch stopped and said hello as they all knew her. She was very kind to us and was dressed in a sleeveless red summer dress made of linen. We talked for hours and I believe she honestly enjoyed telling us stories as much as we enjoyed hearing them. This was around the time of OJ Simpson arrest (to try and date this) After several hours we thanked her for her company an as I walked her to the door and out to the street to get her a taxi, I noticed a bunch of crumbs stuck to her dress from lunch and I looked at her face and said to her,' Celeste, I just can't take you anyplace! As I brushed the crumbs away and she laughed very hearty. I mention this to give you an idea how close she made us feel that I felt I could joke with her as if it was my Mom. Again, any star turn lasted 2 minutes and she was very kind and attentive to both my cousin and I even showing pictures of her granddaughter. It was a special afternoon with a great actress that we will always remember. 10 or so years later My Mom & I had the pleasure of repeating a lunch event like this with Julie Andrews. She has been my all time favorite entertainer since I saw The Sound of Music, and YES, it was spectacular and she was truly kind to us.
I would love to hear about the Julie Andrews time. I'm a big fan and even though she has acted I have always mourned not being able to hear her lovely singing voice again. She sang a little in the movie with Anne Hathaway but it was not the same as Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria...
Nice to hear this as it's a different side of what I've often heard (first hand..) about Ms. Holm, and even sensed myself passing through a revolving door across from her at the Marriott Marquis as she 'swept in' to speak at the end of an Actors' Equity strike sometime in the late 90s
Great info on the stars and others
She talks about an audition piece she read - “the Latin Lesson”. I wonder if she meant Ruth Draper’s 1925 monologue “the Italian Lesson”
Very graceful and GenTeal
Wow.... So much good stuff.. The Bette Davis anecdote.. The Marilyn anecdote....
I know this was about movies but I would have loved to have heard her talk about getting cast in Oklahoma!
Real actors and beauty,thank you!
she was a delight
the most beautiful character actress.
I loved her in “Come To The Stable”
What a beautiful woman.
Love Celeste Holmes. She was a classy woman and a real NY'er.
Such a classy lady, so different than some of the witches she played opposite to. I strongly disagree with her flippant assessment of Marilyn Monroe's death. Monroe was extremely knowledgeable about drugs, and what she could tolerate. There was about 3 times the poison in her bloodstream than she could have possibly volunteerily swallowed in capsule form, aside from many other factors including there was no drinking glass initially found, though what appeared to be one magically appeared for police photo's. One glass, even had it been present could not have washed that much down, about 60 or more pills. Also, her plumbing was shut off due to remodeling. She was killed in her guesthouse, then moved to her bedroom where the lies started, and continue to today. Her handyman Norman Jeffries, son in law to her housekeeper Eunice Murray told the whole story to Donald Wolfe.
Neil Dickson I agree with you.The Kennedy's had a had a hand in her demize.
President Kennedy's furneal would not have been so sad if the public has known about MARILYN MONROE at that time.
robert44861 True, and RFK as well. He was even more involved. Jeffries said he was at her home twice that Saturday, the second time with a Doctor, or a man carrying a Doctor's bag.
oh, stop it with the conspiracy theories; Marilyn was a victim of the star system, that didn't take good care of her and actually exploited her weakness and vulnerability. this doesn't help all the people out there with mental health issues.
Conspiracy theory nonsense. Marilyn Monroe lead a tragic life and never was able to shake crippling depression and anxiety. Mixed with a lot of insecurities and a history of suicide attempts it’s amazing she didn’t overdose long before the age of 36.
Let me guess -the Kennedy’s had her killed? 🙄
Stop taking this woman’s tragic life and death into your weirdo, tinfoil hat, Alex Jones bullshit.
Her voice was at a higher pitch now. It was not the same .
My aunt is 91 and her voice has also gotten higher in recent years. Wonder what that's about?
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I always heard that All About Eve was based on when Lizabeth Scott was underystudy for Tallulah Bankhead in a play, which is kind of unusual. Very different types of actresses
Nope, as is often told it was Elisabeth Bergner on Broadway in "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" -- (the Margot Channing character...), the "Eve" woman was a young woman she took in who wasn't exactly ambitious about becoming the toast of Broadway. It was based on a magazine short story called "The Wisdom of Eve"
Wonderful beautiful.classy.
Charming woman
I love Celeste Holms I always tbought she was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen besides Betty Davis. But she always played a co-star and you know thats perfect.
Celeste and Bette didn't like eachother, though. Did Celeste have have one starring role, or always supporting?
Celeste was certainly not beautiful - odd mouth and chin.
Dallas Jones: Well, post your picture and see if you’re Broadway, Hollywood and television worthy. And that name, “Dallas Jones”! We’re your parents still when you were named as when you were conceived? A simple last name for a simple person but “Dallas”? How ‘bout “Moosejaw”, “Gavleston”, “Cheboygan”, “Austin”, “Fort Worth”? Yes, named after the city that assassinated Kennedy. Great choice!!👍 NOT!
JohnnyM Fan: She did some starring roles as I remember find with Dan Daily where they headlined.
Lol, she was no beauty! Attractive is it!’
16:45 -All About Eve
24:45 - MM
Classy woman
Celeste Holm is the only person who ever talked negatively about Bette Davis. Bette seemed like she might have had a big ego, so she may not have hit it off with everyone. We know she didn't care for Joan Crawford, but Bette also didn't like Susan Hayward when they made their film Their co-star, Mike Connors, said it was because Bette was jealous of Susan's looks. But Susan was also a very talented actress, nominated for 5 Academy Awards. How old was Celeste at the time of this interview? It seems like she was in her 90s to me.
Huge Bette fan here, and even met and sat with her for an hour the year before she died -- but Celeste is hardly the only person who ever talked negatively about Bette
shadows of a golden age
Where did this air? Was it on the special features of a DVD? I think I even see that man tried to get her to disinherit her children for him that was much younger at the beginning of the clip. That would make it the past 10 years?
These were "filler" segments on the Fox Movie Channel, which no longer air. I think there were five with Holm, but I only caught these three.
Alan Eichler I watch a lot of your uploads and I want to thank you for them. A lot of that stuff you just won’t find anywhere else. Are used to watch the FOX movie channel I wish I’d seen some of these.
if they ever make a movie about her, Deborah Ann Woll would play her very well. They look a lot alike.
You know watching this I never heard of a hardcore Anne Baxter fan.But, I guess, somewhere out there, there must be some. It doesn't seem like she is that well remembered. But she was pretty big. She got third billing in The Ten Commandments.
And won an Oscar, and was nominated for another. She's hardly unknown .. Though yes, watching her later in life performances, she could be rather ham fisted! Check out her Banacek (I think it was ..) episode, for one .. pretty funny in its way!
I guess she never tells the story about being on the plane with other Actors from Eve & asks, has anyone worked with the Queen Bee?? Which probably got back to Miss Davis!!
Queen bitch - yes that was Bette Dvis
Vincent Marchese she has.
She told the story endlessly. And she did it just to promote herself. How tiresome she was.
She was a pretty woman beautiful
YEP
She looks like Barbara Stanwyck.
chuck sellers better looking
@@388Caroline Barbara Stanwyck was an odd beauty, but beautiful just the same. I think it's because she was a natural beauty. She had a big nose and small lips that looked good w/ her face.
Barbara was much better looking!
@@terry4137 I think that they are comparable.
I did a long long interview with Celeste as part of my Women in Film series...sandrasheveyinterviews CZcams..in the Seventies before migrating to the UK. I find this particular interview odd in that she omits any mention of seeing the same shrink as Marilyn Monroe. The two were not friends and her comments to me about Marilyn in 1985 when I was researching for and writing `The Marilyn Scandal` were calculated and cruel. Dr. Greenson has been accused of queering professional ethics and getting involved with Marilyn Monroe. This could be the result of accepting as valid some of Celeste`s gossip. Thus Celeste diabolically could have been pivotal in undermining Marilyn`s relationship with Greenson.
Sandra Shevey : Interesting. Not sure how convinced some of these adoring fans will be though. I thought I detected a hint of sourness, jealousy and also - quite definitely - boastfulness in this interview but the comments I’ve read don’t seem to acknowledge this. Celeste is their angel. Never heard Marilyn described as a duck before. Did I hear that right? A duck? Marilyn was one of the best people to ever grace the silver screen. Here in the U.K. Marilyn was always admired , liked and respected. This very week one of her films is being shown YET AGAIN on T.V. and it will be watched and she will be appreciated by new fans and old. Dearest Marilyn, so funny, loveable and irreplaceable on screen, so disrespected in life.
Sandra Shevey Sucks: Good riddance to bad garbage and let the UK keep you. This was not an extensive interview and only touched on a few topics. It is not professional to reveal other patients going to the same doctor as yours since it is none of anybody’s business why the doctor is seeing them. Also, why would Celeste Holm waste her time and money talking about some eternally pathetic victim like Marilyn Monroe? What value would that be! There was nothing diabolical about CH’s ‘treatment’ of MM but rather your insignificant petty unfounded allegation as scrap by the bottom of the barrel of life. Greenson’s professional ethics as a psychiatrist treating MM is his own responsibility and you are “calculated and cruel” in addition to totally unprofessional to disparage CH when she can’t defend herself. Eat shit you fucking bitch and get off the “Let’s Make A Buck On The Marilyn” bus. It’s an old route.
@@johnpickford4222 Why should she have wasted her time? A good question! But she certainly gave me an earful and a tape full of Marilyn Monroe Hate. Celeste herself was more of a mover than we suspect. As she said herself, she actually nailed a director in a lift to negotiate getting a role she wanted. She pushed the emergency and stopped the lift. The director according to Celeste herself was shocked, frightened. She got the role. Holm WAS seeing Greenson. I think the wife mentions it in my interview for `The Marilyn Scandal`. Greenson should not have listened to third parties. But he was human AND he probably was a ploy in the plot against Marilyn.
Sandra Shevey: I have the utmost respect and fondness for Celeste Holm. I find the story about stopping the elevator quite charming and Lord knows, she wasn’t the first or last woman in the arts to try and combine marriage, motherhood with a working spouse and failed (twice I believe). My issue is with the regurgitated stories about Marilyn Monroe and how she was the victim, the celebrity shrink people saw who evidently talked behind everyone’s back. Even if CH was seeing Greenspan and had professional issues with MM, it was unprofessional for his as a doctor to talk about clients or share patient information. It seems that MM was treated better at 20th Century Fox than Judy Garland was and she still couldn’t get off pills or change her life no matter how much support there was. It gets to be an old story, and a sad one, note to let it, and her, Rest In Peace. I suppose 2026 will bring a slew of new books on the 100 anniversary of MM’s birth. Let us all move on. But yes, CH was just wonderful in everything she did, large and small projects, well liked and respected professionally. And those are the important attributes in life as opposed to being attractive, moderately entertaining, a pain to work/employ, always the victim and a presidential mattress.
@@johnpickford4222 Dr. Greenson. I had the good fortune to interview his wife (now deceased) who put me right on any number of issues regarding Marilyn and Greenson. With regard to `a slew of new books` DISGUSTING as most including Sarah Churchwell as well as Donald Spoto never interviewed any of those who feature in my biography. By law they are allowed to contextualize other writers` ip and to sell their own books on the basis. I HOPE TO HELL people will be smart enough to buy the source ie`The Marilyn Scandal` by Sandra Shevey. www.sandrasheveybooks.wordpress.com Greenson not only was unprofessional. He was undoubtedly working for the Mafia and/or CIA or both. Hollywood studios were not only brothels, they were and are sophisticated propaganda machines involved with both Mafia and CIA. Shrinks are used to abuse the stars, to keep them in their place, to plant false information about their sanity and ability to cope. Garland`s agent, Sylvia Sidney`s husband, was retired CIA and it was on this basis he colluded in her committal to the mental institution where (alleged going for a rest cure) she was subjected to electro-shock therapy. I interviewed Celeste twice: one in person for a couple of hours (I play the interview as part of Sandra Shevey Hollywood Film Talks bookable at sandra_sheey@yahoo.com) and two pickup phone interviewer when working on my Marilyn book. She had longstanding deep seated hate for Marilyn Monroe (some of it perhaps justified) But she did not have to talk round the shrink and Greenson had his own agenda. Good celebrity biography is like good history. As a matter of fact the gossip of today is the histor of tomorrow. I consider myself a good Hollywood historical biographer. I should be working a great deal more AND making a living. As it stands I am living in a crappy London bedsit because publishers still take 90% of the sales price of every book AND they often publish competing books while yours remains under licence.
Celeste Holm reminds me of Jennifer Lawrence.
I had read the story about Bette Davis shutting her down for “good manners”, but I never believed that , as a result, Celeste would never speak to her again! UNTIL Celeste admits it in this interview. I truly love her but it seems a bit petty!
So Bette merely saying, "Oh shit, good manners." was enough for Celeste to fold up her tent and never speak to Bette Again??? Absurd. She was that delicate of a flower? Hard to believe and it certrainly didn't stop Miss Sweetness and Light from showing up to Bette's AFI tribute and basking in the light. Not buying St. Celeste's Act.
Bette Davis was a bitch
@@williamf4544 and celeste was a saint, right,
Len Wilson Fuck off Len.
Messylin that's what ppl say when they lost the argument, messy lin.
Like how you incorporated Eve references into your post, well done!
The ridiculousness of her attitude to Davis’ witty if acerbic comment puts me right orff!
Blowjob40: Davis was a bitch and that is not a witty or acerbic comment. Maybe if they knew each other well, but Davis could have just said “Thank you and good morning” instead she likely belched it out. Now, if I say you’re a fucking asshole with no life or reason for existing until Covid19 gets you before you vote for the fucking prick in the White House, THAT’S witty, acerbic, charming, Kaufman & Hart all in one!!
Indeed. Bette could be quite low brow and vulgar and crude. But Holm comes off very debutante snooty in this (her own..) telling, to me
Not a huge fan of Celeste.....don't know why.....I adore Bette and Joan etc.....Celeste comes across whisy washy.....only watch this because of all about eve
Holm was not in the same class as Bette and Joan. She was in the second tier of actresses.
saoirse ronan is a bit like her looking wise
Celeste Holm was undeniably a good and talented actress that is evident through her performances, however motherhood eventually turned around and bit her because her sons felt abandoned by her.
She felt the same way about them. She had put her career first at a time when women didn't have careers and her children suffered for it. But what they did to her in her old age was shameful. The whole episode was very sad.
she was so broke she was in Sardis with a cheque from her father... my heart's bleeding all over the floor. Ummmmm... she was great though. Not gorgeous but wonderful to watch. That LAUGH. I've never forgotten it.
I always found her so stuck up!! I also extremely dislike the way she talks about Marilyn Monroe, like she has/ had a clue anything about her!! I always got/ get the feeling that she thinks that she’s something really special, like she’s better than everyone else. Nah….not my cuppa tea, at all…!!
Who wants to be a millionaire?
I don't!
Street walking...
This is so sad. "Member of the 20th Century Fox Family"? Encumbered by would be a better description.
Even the narrator can't be bother to learn the pronunciation of the first role he mentions. Geez.
She deserves better.
Ado Annie in Oklahoma, the Ai narrator mispronounced. Wish UTube would mark vids with AI voice so I can skip them
Did Bette Davis get along with other female actors? Her rep. with Crawford was bad and now I learned Celeste disliked her, not that I blame her.
Yes, she like Olivia de Havilland, Gladys Cooper and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others.
Bette made a point of being rude to her on the set. Celeste met her in All About Eve and said "Good Morning!" Bette mocked her voice back to her in a phony classy accent. Celeste said it went down hill, and she avoided her off the set.
It's not that Celeste Holm didn't like Bette; it's that she was very hurt with Bette being unpleasant and insulting with her when they had just met. Davis tended to do that; I always felt she never thought before she spoke. When Joan Crawford made "Baby Jane" with Davis, Bette made her a nervous wreck, which is why she dropped out of "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte."
Bette was friends with Mary Astor who worked with Bette on "The Great Lie."
Perhaps, Bette's "rudeness" had something with Holm's snarkily asking co-stars Gary Merrill and Hugh Marlowe, "What do you think it's going to be like, working with the Queen Bee?" en route to filming AAE in San Francisco. Long live Bette! Learn some manners, Celeste...
I used to see her all the time in NYC. I saw her on buses yell and scream at people who were so polite to her. I saw her push and shove elderly people on the bus. She crossed the street with me many times. SHe's a low life disgusting person. Mean, nasty, crazy. Everyone that was near her thought she was insane. One elderly woman on the bus, very well dressed, very polite and dignified sat next to her. She realized who she was and very politely asked, "Excuse me are you Celeste Holms?" Well, Celeste SCREAMED SO LOUD SHE STOPPED THE BUS. "YES I AM!" Then she stomped, got up, screamed, and shoved people with her elbows, then got off the bus. Acted like a nut! The woman was appalled. She was shocked. She's known to be crazy.
you are full of shit. She was a great personal friend of mine for many years and I never heard or saw her being rude to anyone.
Chanelgirl snub you for an autograph did she?
I personally knew Celeste for over thirty years before she died and this story is bullshit.She was the sweetest person that I have ever met.
gordon peterson I believe it, you’re lucky to have known her. She signed a photo for me through the mail shortly before she stopped signing, all she asked for in exchange was a donation to UNICEF from her fans. A class act.
I don't believe that she just bleeds class.
She was a hypocrite and a phony. A lot of actors wouldn't work with her. There were many other actresses that could have played her part in "All About Eve", and played it better. I've never liked her.
Do you know any of the actors besides Bette Davis that wouldn’t work with her? I’ve never heard that...?
Boring and nice. Yawn. Bring back Bette and Joan - tough broads who didn’t need to speak in a breathy tone at age 80!
She had a lung condition that made her talk that way...poor health