Charlotte Greenwood

Charlotte Greenwood

Frances Charlotte Greenwood

Birth Date

6/24/1890 (Age 87)

Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Death Date

12/28/1977

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​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 novelization as Tik-Tok of Oz), then commissioned a successful star vehicle titled So Long Letty, which is the ...

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Acting

Gender

Female

Total Credits

4

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Polly Hathaway

Binnie Crawford

Ma Higgins

Frequent Collaborators

Edward Sedgwick

Edward Sedgwick

1 film together

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

1 film together

Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae

1 film together

Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann

1 film together

Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings

1 film together

Don Ameche

Don Ameche

1 film together

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