Charlotte Greenwood
Highest Rated: 100% The Gang's All Here (1943)
Lowest Rated: 33% The Opposite Sex (1956)
Birthday: Jun 25, 1890
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
This long-legged, gangly comic actress' career stretched from turn-of-the-century vaudeville to the splashy musical films of WWII and beyond. Charlotte Greenwood left school early and took to the stage, first as a chorus girl in "The White Cat" (1905), later in vaudeville with Eunice Burnham, billed as "Two Girls and a Piano." She became a star with the stage show "So Long, Letty" (1916), which established her character for all time: a rowdy, man-chasing gal with a good heart and a stork-like dancing skill ("Lady Longlegs" was Greenwood's nickname). With her long face and prominent chin, Greenwood was not pretty in a conventional sense, but she nonetheless starred in a series of "Lettys": "Linger Longer, Letty" (1919), "Letty Pepper" (1922), "Leaning on Letty" (1935). Greenwood appeared in a number of other shows, as well as two indifferent silent films, "Jane" (1915) and "Baby Mine" (1927).
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33% | 47% | The Opposite Sex | Lucy (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Glory | Miz Agnes Tilbee (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 86% | 75% | Oklahoma! | Aunt Eller Murphy (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Dangerous When Wet | Ma Higgins (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peggy | Mrs. Emelia Fielding (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Dan Patch | Aunt Netty (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Driftwood | Mathilda (Character) | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wake Up and Dream | Sara March (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Home in Indiana | Penny Bolt (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 100% | 68% | The Gang's All Here | Mrs. Peyton Potter (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dixie Dugan | Mrs. Dugan (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Springtime in the Rockies | Phoebe Gray (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tall, Dark and Handsome | Mrs. Winnie Sage (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Moon Over Miami | Aunt Susan 'Sue' Latimer (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Perfect Snob | Martha Mason (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | Star Dust | Lola Langdon (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Young People | Kit Ballantine (Character) | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Orders Is Orders | Wanda Sinclair (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheaters at Play | Mrs. Crozier (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stepping Out | Sally Smith (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Palmy Days | Helen Martin (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flying High | Pansy (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | Polly Hathaway (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man in Possession | Clara (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So Long Letty | Letty Robbins (Character) | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Mine | Emma (Character) | - | 1928 |