Английская Википедия:Charlotte Greenwood

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Charlotte Greenwood was known for being a very limber performer.

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lithograph poster for Greenwood's follow up Letty play, Linger Longer Letty, 1919.

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Charlotte Greenwood in Down Argentine Way (1940)

Frances Charlotte Greenwood (June 25, 1890 – December 28, 1977) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and starred on Broadway, movies and radio. Standing almost six feet tall (some sources say 5'10"), she was best known for her long legs and high kicks. She earned the unique praise of being, in her words, the "only woman in the world who could kick a giraffe in the eye."Шаблон:Sfn

Theatre

Between 1909 and 1912 Greenwood performed in vaudeville as part of a sister act, "Burnam and Greenwood." The act broke up when Greenwood was hired for the Winter Garden Revue.

In 1913, Oliver Morosco cast her as Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo late in the run of L. Frank Baum and Louis F. Gottschalk's The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (better known in its novelization as Tik-Tok of Oz). In 1916, Morosco commissioned a successful star vehicle stage play titled So Long Letty. In 1919 Morosco brought her back in the sequel Linger Longer Letty. This role made her a star; she reprised it in the 1929 movie of the same name.

She appeared with actors including Charles Ruggles, Betty Grable, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Buster Keaton, and Carmen Miranda. Most of Greenwood's best work was done on the stage, and was lauded by such critics as James Agate, Alexander Woollcott, and Claudia Cassidy. One of her most successful roles was that of Juno in Cole Porter's Out of This World in which she introduced the Porter classic "I Sleep Easier Now". She had some discomfort with that play, as she had become a devout Christian Scientist and feared the play was too risqué.

Film

Greenwood appeared in numerous movies. When not showcasing her trademark high kicks and splits in comic roles for musicals, she played occasional serio-comic roles such as Lon McAllister's aunt in Home in Indiana. Her last memorable role was as the feisty Aunt Eller in the 1955 film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1955), starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones.

Radio

Greenwood had her own radio program, The Charlotte Greenwood Show, a sitcom. It was broadcast from 1944 to 1946, first on ABC and later on NBC. She also was in "Home in Indiana" on Lux Radio Theatre October 2, 1944.

Recordings

Greenwood ventured into recorded music with an album of songs from Cole Porter's musical Out of This World and another from the musical comedy Oh, by Jingo.

Personal life

Шаблон:Moresources Greenwood first married actor Cyril Ring, brother of actress Blanche Ring. They divorced. Her second husband was composer Martin Broones. He died in 1971. Both unions were childless.

In her post-retirement years, this comedienne who, in her own words, was “the only woman in the world who could kick a giraffe in the eye”, suffered severely from arthritis. She and Broones were Christian Scientists – he was a C.S. practitioner and teacher of Christian Science for over two decades, and consulted with Doris Day in that capacity. Greenwood also became a listed public Christian Science practitioner until her death in 1977, using the name Charlotte Greenwood Broones.

Greenwood died in Los Angeles at age 87. She had been out of the public eye for decades, and it was months before the world took notice.Шаблон:Sfn

Stage work

Stage credits of Charlotte Greenwood

Date	Title	Role	Шаблон:Abbr
Jul 22, 1912 - Nov 16, 1912	The Passing Show of 1912	Performer
Jan 23, 1913 - Mar 08, 1913	The Man with Three Wives	Performer
Jul 24, 1913 - Sep 1913	The Passing Show of 1913	Performer
Sep 21, 1914 - Oct 31, 1914	Pretty Mrs. Smith	Letititia Proudfoot
1916	The Tik-Tok Man of Oz	Queen Ann Soforth
Oct 23, 1916 - Jan 13, 1917	So Long Letty	Letty Robbins
Oct 23, 1916 - Jan 1917	Les So Long	Performer
Nov 20, 1919 - Jan 21, 1920	Linger Longer Letty	Letty
Apr 10, 1922 - May 6, 1922	Letty Pepper	Letty Pepper
Oct 23, 1922 - Aug 04, 1923	Music Box Revue [1922-23]	Performer
Sep 17, 1924 - Dec 1924	Hassard Short's Ritz Revue	Performer
Mar 28, 1927 - May 1927	Rufus LeMaire's Affairs	Performer, The Dove, Nervous Patient, Leading Lady, Lorelei
Dec 21, 1950 - May 5, 1951	Out of This World	June

Filmography

Film credits of Charlotte Greenwood

Year	Title	Role	Silent	Sound	Studio/Distributor	Шаблон:Abbr
1915	Jane	Jane	X		Morosco Photoplay Company
1916	Miss George Washington	Attendee at tea social (uncredited)	X		Famous Players Film Company
1926	Crossed Signals	(uncredited) Mother with baby at train station	X		Rayart
1927	Women Love Diamonds	(uncredited/deleted)	X		MGM
1928	Baby Mine	Emma	X		MGM
1929	So Long Letty	Letty Robbins		X	Warner Bros. Pictures
1931	Parlor, Bedroom and Bath	Polly Hathaway		X	MGM
1931	Flying High	Pansy		X	MGM
1931	The Man in Possession	Clara		X	MGM
1931	Stepping Out	Sally Smith		X	MGM
1931	Palmy Days	Helen Martin		X	Howard Productions Inc.
1932	Cheaters at Play	Crozier		X	Fox Film
1934	Orders Is Orders	Wanda Sinclair		X	Gaumont-British
1940	Young People	Kit Ballantine		X	20th Century Fox
1940	Star Dust	Lola Langdon		X	20th Century Fox
1940	Down Argentine Way	Binnie Crawford		X	20th Century Fox
1941	Moon Over Miami	Susan Latimer		X	20th Century Fox
1941	Tall, Dark and Handsome	Mrs. Winnie Sage		X	20th Century Fox
1941	The Perfect Snob	Martha Mason		X	20th Century Fox
1942	Springtime in the Rockies	Phoebe Gray		X	20th Century Fox
1943	The Gang's All Here	Mrs. Peyton Potter		X	20th Century Fox
1943	Dixie Dugan	Mrs. Dugan		X	20th Century Fox
1944	Home in Indiana	Penny Bolt		X	20th Century Fox
1944	Up in Mabel's Room	Martha		X	Edward Small Productions
1946	Wake Up and Dream	Sara March		X	20th Century Fox
1947	Driftwood	Mathilda		X	Republic Pictures
1949	Oh, You Beautiful Doll	Anna Breitenbach		X	20th Century Fox
1949	The Great Dan Patch	Aunt Netty		X	W. R. Frank Productions
1950	Peggy	Mrs. Emelia Fielding		X	Universal Pictures
1953	Dangerous When Wet	Ma Higgins		X	MGM
1955	Oklahoma!	Aunt Eller		X	Rodgers & Hammerstein Pictures, Inc.
1956	Glory	Miz Agnes Tilbee		X	David Butler Productions, Inc.
1956	The Opposite Sex	Lucy		X	MGM

Sources

• Hayter-Menzies, Grant. Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film. McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 2007; Шаблон:ISBN.
• Шаблон:Cite book
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External links

• Шаблон:Internet Archive author
• Шаблон:IMDb name
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• Charlotte Greenwood web site
• Victoria Times-Colonist, Adrian Chamberlain, May 26, 2007
• 1925 portrait of Charlotte Greenwood modeling fur and her hair coiffed taken by Benjamin Strauss and Homer Peyton
• lithograph to the 1919 musical Linger Longer Letty