Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1890-06-24 (87 years old)
Deathday
1977-12-28
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known As
Frances 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 novelizatio...
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1942
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1941
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1940
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1940
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1941
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1940
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1947
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1941
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1929
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1944
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1956
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1949
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1946
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1932
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1950
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1933
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1916
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