- Born Name: Frances Charlotte Greenwood
- Birthday: 1890-06-25 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Cyril Ring (1915-1922) (divorced) Martin Broones (1924-1971) (his death)
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Charlotte Greenwood, 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. Gottschalks 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 Greenwoods 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 Porters 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.[edit] Notes[edit] ReferencesHayter-Menzies, Grant, Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 2007. ISBN 9780786429950.[edit] External linksBiography portalWikimedia Commons has media related to: Charlotte GreenwoodCharlotte Greenwood at the Internet Movie DatabaseCharlotte Greenwood at the Internet Broadway DatabaseCharlotte Greenwood web siteVictoria Times-Colonist, Adrian Chamberlain, 26 May 20071925 portrait of Charlotte Greenwood modeling fur and her hair coiffed taken by Benjamin Strauss and Homer PeytonCharlotte Greenwood at Find a GravePersondataNameGreenwood, CharlotteAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birth25 June 1890Place of birthPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaDate of death28 December 1977Place of deathLos Angeles, CaliforniaRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_GreenwoodCategories: 1890 births | 1977 deaths | American dancers | American film actors | American musical theatre actors | People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Vaudeville performersHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesEspañolFrançais This page was last modified on 6 February 2011 at 14:07.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();