Charlotte Greenwood

"[1] While still a teenager, Charlotte Greenwood made her professional stage debut in 1905 as a dancer in Ludwig Englander's musical The White Cat.

[5] In 1916, Morosco commissioned a successful star vehicle stage play titled So Long Letty.

She appeared with actors including Charles Ruggles, Betty Grable, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Buster Keaton, Don Ameche, and Carmen Miranda.

Most of Greenwood's best work was done on the stage, and was lauded by such critics as James Agate, Alexander Woollcott, and Claudia Cassidy.

Her last memorable role was as the feisty Aunt Eller in the 1955 film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

In her post-retirement years, this comedienne who, in her own words, was “the only woman in the world who could kick a giraffe in the eye,” suffered severely from arthritis.

practitioner and teacher of Christian Science for over two decades, and consulted with Doris Day in that capacity.

Charlotte Greenwood was known for being a very limber performer.
lithograph poster for Greenwood's follow up Letty play, Linger Longer Letty , 1919.
Charlotte Greenwood in Down Argentine Way (1940)