Actress Celeste Holm dies at 95

Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York City at the age of 95. According to the stage and film actress’s niece, Amy Phillips, Holm had been admitted to a New York City hospital last week, but her husband took her home on Friday. Phillips told CNN that her aunt “passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby.”

Holm caught the country’s attention in 1940 with her first major Broadway role “The Time of Your Life.” By 1943, she had earned wide recognition portraying Ado Annie in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” But it wasn’t until 1947, when the actress went to Hollywood to star in “Gentleman’s Agreement,” that she won her first Oscar. Holm went on to work on several movies including 1950’s “All About Eve,” and returned to her first love, Broadway. The actress also had roles in numerous television shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including “Fantasy Island,” “Falcon Crest” and “Archie Bunker’s Place.”