By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt

Oscar winning actress Celeste Holm who rose to Broadway fame in the hit play “OKLAHOMA”, and won the Academy Award for “GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENT”, died yesterday at the age of 95.

Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration after a fire in actor Robert De Niro’s apartment in the same Manhattan building. She had asked her husband on Friday to bring her home, and she spent her final days with her husband, Frank Basile, and other relatives and close friends by her side, said Amy Phillips, a great-niece of Holm’s.

Holm died around 3:30 a.m. at her longtime apartment on Central Park West, Phillips said.”I think she wanted to be here, in her home, among her things, with people who loved her,” she said.

RSR extends our condolences to the Holm family in their time of grief….

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