Charlotte Greenwood

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1890-06-24 (87 years old)

Deathday

1977-12-28

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Charlotte Greenwood

Biography

​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...

Acting

1955

Oklahoma!

as Aunt Eller

1956

1953

Dangerous When Wet

as Ma Higgins

1942

1941

Moon Over Miami

as Aunt Susan 'Sue' Latimer

1940

Down Argentine Way

as Binnie Crawford

1931

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

as Polly Hathaway

1943

The Gang's All Here

as Mrs. Peyton Potter

1928

Baby Mine

as Emma

1940

Star Dust

as Lola Langdon

1941

1940

Young People

as Kit Ballantine

1947

Driftwood

as Mathilda

1931

Palmy Days

as Helen Martin

1941

The Perfect Snob

as Martha Mason

1929

So Long Letty

as Letty Robbins

1931

Flying High

as Pansy Potts

1944

1956

Glory

as Miz Agnes Tilbee

1931

Stepping Out

as Sally Smith

1944

Home in Indiana

as Penelope 'Penny' Bolt

1946

Wake Up and Dream

as Sara March

1931

1949

The Great Dan Patch

as Aunt Netty

1943

Dixie Dugan

as Mrs. Dugan

1932

Cheaters at Play

as Mrs. Crozier

1950

Peggy

as Mrs. Emilia Fielding

1933

Orders Is Orders

as Wanda Sinclair

1916

Miss George Washington

as Attendee at tea social

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