Throwback Thursday and Charlotte
Greenwood
Born in Philadelphia on June 25, 1890,
Frances Charlotte Greenwood was not a healthy child. But she overcame these issues and grew to be six feet tall.
Her dance career began, as so many
others did, in vaudeville. Her signature move was a high kick and she earned
the nickname “Lady Longlegs”. Her real dream, however, was to become a serious
actress.
She had greater success as a comedy and
character actress and she began by starring in a series of stage shows playing a man-crazy woman named Letty. It was so popular a movie version was produced in
1929. Soon Charlotte Greenwood was acting in many other movies such as Down Argentine Way, Star Dust and The Gang’s All Here.
She became very recognizable as a
sidekick to movie headliners, but may be best remembered for playing Aunt Eller
in the musical Oklahoma.
Charlotte Greenwood was married twice,
but had no children. She died of natural causes on December 28, 1977, leaving
all her personal papers to the playwright William Luce.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #217:
“Charlotte
Greenwood was a dancer and actress nicknamed ‘Lady Longlegs’.”
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Quote of the Day:
“One night, you’d be a riot and think you were great, and the next night,
Harry Fox ahead of you would be a riot and you’d think you were a frost. You
always had to keep after the audience; keep right on your toes. I never worked
so hard in my life. It was a regular ‘institution.’ But I guess it had a good
deal with making me.”
— Charlotte Greenwood (about her early days in
vaudeville)
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