Charlotte Greenwood

Charlotte Greenwood

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Frances Charlotte Greenwood (25 June 1890 - 28 December 1977) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and eventually starred on Broadway, movies and radio. Standing around six feet tall, 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." 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), then commissioned a successful star vehicle titled So Long Letty, which is the role that made her a star. She starred with such luminaries as 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." Although the role was written with her in mind, film commitments prevented her from playing "Aunt Eller" in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit Oklahoma! (1943). She got her chance in the 1955 film version, just prior to retiring in 1956. Charlotte Greenwood died in Los Angeles, California of undisclosed causes, aged 87. She was married twice, first, unsuccessfully to actor Cyril Ring, brother of actress Blanche Ring, and secondly and happily to composer Martin Broones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlotte Greenwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Charlotte Greenwood
  • Popularity: 1.896
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1890-06-24
  • Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Also Known As: Frances Charlotte Greenwood
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Charlotte Greenwood Movies

  • 1930
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    Love Your Neighbor

    Love Your Neighbor

    1 1930 HD

    After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the...

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  • 1955
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    Oklahoma!

    Oklahoma!

    6.569 1955 HD

    In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the...

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  • 1956
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    The Opposite Sex

    The Opposite Sex

    5.2 1956 HD

    Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to...

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  • 1953
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    Dangerous When Wet

    Dangerous When Wet

    6 1953 HD

    The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe,...

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  • 1942
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    Springtime in the Rockies

    Springtime in the Rockies

    6.7 1942 HD

    Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance...

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  • 1941
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    Moon Over Miami

    Moon Over Miami

    6.1 1941 HD

    After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find...

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  • 1940
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    Down Argentine Way

    Down Argentine Way

    6 1940 HD

    The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their...

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  • 1931
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    Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

    Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

    5.4 1931 HD

    Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets...

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  • 1943
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    The Gang's All Here

    The Gang's All Here

    5.8 1943 HD

    A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

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  • 1928
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    Baby Mine

    Baby Mine

    1 1928 HD

    Remake of the 1917 film of the same name. A young chiropractor is tricked by a tall, homely girl into marriage, but he ducks out the morning after...

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  • 1940
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    Star Dust

    Star Dust

    4.7 1940 HD

    When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

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  • 1941
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    Tall, Dark and Handsome

    Tall, Dark and Handsome

    5.4 1941 HD

    Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

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  • 1940
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    Young People

    Young People

    4.6 1940 HD

    Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

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  • 1931
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    The Man in Possession

    The Man in Possession

    6.5 1931 HD

    A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.

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  • 1947
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    Driftwood

    Driftwood

    6.1 1947 HD

    An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

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  • 1931
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    Palmy Days

    Palmy Days

    7 1931 HD

    Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony...

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  • 1941
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    The Perfect Snob

    The Perfect Snob

    6.3 1941 HD

    When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover...

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  • 1929
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    So Long Letty

    So Long Letty

    5.9 1929 HD

    Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets...

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  • 1931
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    Flying High

    Flying High

    4.8 1931 HD

    An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.

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  • 1944
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    Up in Mabel's Room

    Up in Mabel's Room

    6 1944 HD

    Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in...

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  • 1956
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    Glory

    Glory

    5 1956 HD

    A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.

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  • 1931
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    Stepping Out

    Stepping Out

    6.5 1931 HD

    After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

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  • 1944
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    Home in Indiana

    Home in Indiana

    5.6 1944 HD

    'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies....

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  • 1949
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    Oh, You Beautiful Doll

    Oh, You Beautiful Doll

    4.7 1949 HD

    Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.

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  • 1946
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    Wake Up and Dream

    Wake Up and Dream

    6.5 1946 HD

    Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

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  • 1931
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    The Christmas Party

    The Christmas Party

    5.4 1931 HD

    In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

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  • 1949
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    The Great Dan Patch

    The Great Dan Patch

    5 1949 HD

    David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's...

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  • 1943
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    Dixie Dugan

    Dixie Dugan

    5 1943 HD

    Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...

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  • 1932
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    Cheaters at Play

    Cheaters at Play

    1 1932 HD

    Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.

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  • 1950
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    Peggy

    Peggy

    4.7 1950 HD

    Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move...

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  • 1931
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    Girls Will Be Boys

    Girls Will Be Boys

    1 1931 HD

    A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in...

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  • 1933
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    Orders Is Orders

    Orders Is Orders

    1 1933 HD

    A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

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  • 1960
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    The Best of the Post

    The Best of the Post

    1 1960 HD

    Anthology. Dramas based on short stories in the "Saturday Evening Post".

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