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Charlotte Greenwood
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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.
Acted in
- The Opposite Sex (1956)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- Dangerous When Wet (1953)
- The Great Dan Patch (1949)
- Driftwood (1947)
- Wake Up and Dream (1946)
- Home in Indiana (1944)
- The Gang's All Here (1943)
- Moon Over Miami (1941)
- Young People (1940)
- Down Argentine Way (1940)
- Orders Is Orders (1934)
- The Man in Possession (1931)
- Stepping Out (1931)
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
- Palmy Days (1931)
- Flying High (1931)
- Baby Mine (1928)
- Jane (1915)
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