Death of Oscar winner
Updated at 3:50 pm on 16 July 2012
Oscar-winning American actress Celeste Holm has died.
Holm, 95, was admitted to a hospital in New York last week, but CNN reports she died at home surrounded by family.
Her first major Broadway role came in a 1940 revival of The Time of Your Life with Gene Kelly followed by a notable role in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! in 1943.
After success on Broadway, she went to Hollywood where her performance in Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement, a 1947 tale of anti-semitism, won her the best supporting actress Oscar.
Other films included All About Eve (1950) and High Society, in which she played a wise-cracking blonde who sang Who Wants to be a Millionaire with Frank Sinatra.
Holm also appeared in numerous television series in the 1970s and 1980s, including Falcon Crest and Archie Bunker's Place.
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