Frances Charlotte Greenwood Net Worth is $1.5 Million
Frances Charlotte Greenwood Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Frances Charlotte Greenwood (June 25, 1890 - December 28, 1977) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and 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 appeared 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". She had some discomforts with being in that play as she had become a more ardent believer in Christian Science and feared the play too risqué. She also reportedly turned down a role as "Mother Superior" in Rodgers and Hammerstein The Sound of Music partly because she felt she could not, in good conscience, play a nun because of her faith.
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Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Often worked with Betty Grable
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Starred in musicals
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Quote
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Temperament is temper that is too old to spark.
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Fact
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Tall, elastic-jointed nightclub dancer and zany comedienne, later in films, whose trademark was her high kick. Her eccentric humor was all the more incongruous on account of her aura of elegance in that fastidiously styled coiffure and those glamorous, magnificently tailored gowns in which she might appear.
Although she died in 1977, her death was not reported to the public until Valentines Day 1978 when an obituary appeared in the New York Times, stating she had no known survivors and that she left her personal papers to playwright William Luce as per her final wishes.
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Upon her death, she was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.
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She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 1601 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 247-249. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Originally had a prominent part in the Broadway version of "Annie Get Your Gun". At the insistence of star Ethel Merman, the part was pared down to almost nothing. When a dispirited Greenwood gave co-producer Richard Rodgers notice, a sympathetic Rodgers replied, "Letty, I can hardly blame you.".
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Her first marriage to actor Cyril Ring, brother of screen legend Blanche Ring, ended in scandal after only six years; her second marriage to musician Martin Broones was long and happy.
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Greenwood was the original choice to play "Aunt Eller" in the Broadway musical "Oklahoma!" In fact, the part was conceived with her in mind. Film commitments, however, kept her from doing the role and the part went to actress Betty Garde. As a testament to her popularity, Greenwood was asked to do the film version over a decade later.
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Even when well into middle age, she could perform complete leg-splits as well as kick higher than the top of her own head - sideways!
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Decidedly double-jointed vaudevillian best known as Aunt Eller in the movie version of Oklahoma! (1955).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Best of the Post
1961
TV Series
Aunt Martha
The Opposite Sex
1956
Lucy
Glory
1956
Miz Agnes Tilbee
Oklahoma!
1955
Aunt Eller
Dangerous When Wet
1953
Ma Higgins
Peggy
1950
Mrs. Emelia Fielding
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1949
Anna Breitenbach
The Great Dan Patch
1949
Aunt Netty
Driftwood
1947
Mathilda
Wake Up and Dream
1946
Sara March
Home in Indiana
1944
Penny Bolt
Up in Mabel's Room
1944
Martha
The Gang's All Here
1943
Mrs. Peyton Potter
Dixie Dugan
1943
Mrs. Dugan
Springtime in the Rockies
1942
Phoebe Gray
The Perfect Snob
1941
Martha Mason
Moon Over Miami
1941
Susan Latimer
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941
Mrs. Winnie Sage
Down Argentine Way
1940
Binnie Crawford
Young People
1940
Kit Ballantine
Star Dust
1940
Lola Langdon
Orders Is Orders
1934
Wanda Sinclair
Cheaters at Play
1932
Mrs. Crozier
The Christmas Party
1931
Short
Charlotte Greenwood (uncredited)
Flying High
1931
Pansy
Palmy Days
1931
Helen Martin
The Man in Possession
1931
Clara
Stepping Out
1931
Sally Smith
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
1931
Polly Hathaway
Girls Will Be Boys
1931
Short
Love Your Neighbor
1930
Short
So Long Letty
1929
Letty Robbins
Baby Mine
1928
Emma
Stepping Some
1918
Short
Jane
1915
Jane
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Banda sonora
2008
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure
2008
TV Movie documentary performer: "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" - uncredited
Oklahoma!
1955
performer: "The Surrey With the Fringe On Top" 1943, "Kansas City" 1943, "The Farmer and the Cowman" 1943, "Oklahoma!" 1943 - uncredited
Dangerous When Wet
1953
performer: "Ain't Nature Grand", "I Got Out Of Bed on the Right Side"
The Gang's All Here
1943
performer: "The Jitters", "'Valse des rayons' from 'Le Papillon'" - uncredited
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