She was a respected actress who took the jobs she was offered in her last working years.
So did Gloria Swanson, who did a TV movie about killer bees.
Doesn’t diminish their contribution to American movies.
Bet you guys laugh and point at Wal-Mart greeters, too.
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Thanks, I was unaware that Celeste worked as a greeter at the Fantasy Island Walmart.
I didn’t mean it as a dig at Celeste Holm, I was just playing along with the humor of Love Boat II being taken as a deep, multi-layered film, worthy of critical examination. I was hoping that my statement that she was overshadowed by the likes of Bert Convy to be not a dig at Miss Holm, but at the cheesiness of the TV movie.
My comment regarding “Gentlemen’s Agreement” was serious, however; the script, and Gregory Peck’s acting had the subtlety of a pneumatic drill. It is in the same league with “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, except that the latter suffers from a horrible acting job by Katherine Hepburn’s niece whose bad acting was all the more apparent when contrasted with Tracy/Hepburn/Poitier.
Returning to Miss Holm, she was a semi-regular on “I Love Lucy”. That was a show that never had a bad regular. Lucy and Desi had an eye for talent. Holm was fine in “Champagne for Caesar” and “High Society”, and everyone was VG in “All About Eve” (Marulyn Monroe was the weakest actress in that flick, though she brought something else to it).
Celeste Holm was a fine actress, and I no more consider her talent less for doing TV movies than I do Bela Lugosi for working with Ed Wood, the Marx Brothers for “Love Happy” George Lucas for his last ten movies.