Nell Gwynne

She was buried in the Church of St Martin's in the Fields, at the corner of Trafalgar Square, London, after a funeral in which Thomas Tenison, the Archbishop of Canterbury, preached a sermon on the text of Luke 15:7 "Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.". Her biography on her official Web site does not mention her son or her four prior marriages. She died, two years later, of apoplexy, aged 37, at 79 Pall Mall, in London. The two have been estranged for many years. James II, obeying his brother's deathbed wish, "Let not poor Nelly starve," paid most of them off and gave her a pension of 1500 pounds a year, a huge sum in 1685. Holm is the mother of Ted Nelson, the co-creator of hypertext. Nell, however, accumulated enormous debts. In April 2004, on her 87th birthday, she married the 41 year old opera singer Frank Basile.

It is thought to have been Nell who persuaded the king to build the Royal Hospital, Chelsea in London for ex-servicemen. She remains active for social causes as a spokesperson for UNICEF, and for occasional professional engagements. Nell was the only one of Charles II's many mistresses to be genuinely popular with the English public. Celeste Holm has received many honors in her lifetime: she was appointed to the National Arts Council by then-President Ronald Reagan, knighted by King Olav of Norway, and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1992. Charles was the first Duke of St Albans. In the 1970s and 1980s, Holm returned more fully to screen acting, with roles in films such as Three Men and a Baby and in television series (often as a guest star) such as Columbo and Falcon Crest. By Charles, Nell had two sons, Charles Beauclerk (1670-1726) and James Beauclerk (1671-1680). The most successful of these was in the 1956 musical, High Society, in which she duetted with Frank Sinatra.

Find something else to fight about.". After her famous performance in All About Eve, however, Holm realized she preferred working in live theater than on movie sets, and took on very few filmed roles over the following decade. She broke up the fight, saying, "I am a whore. After starring in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, 20th Century Fox signed Holm to a movie contract in 1946, and in her first two years as a film actress Holm cemented herself immediately as a formidable performer, especially when winning her Academy Award and Golden Globe for best supporting actress in Gentleman's Agreement. Nell is also famous for another remark made to her coachman, who was fighting with another man who had called her a whore. Her first professional theatrical role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard, and Holm quickly rose to prominence with her portrayal of Ado Annie in the first Broadway production of Oklahoma!. The particular Catholic whore (of the moment) was Louise de Keroualle, the Duchess of Portsmouth. Born in New York City, Holm studied acting at the University of Chicago before becoming a stage actress in the late 1930s.

This appeal to British bigotry made her immensely popular. She is perhaps best remembered for her Oscar-winning role in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve (1950). Nell is remembered for one particularly apt witticism, which was recounted in the memoirs of the Comte de Gramont, remembering the events of 1681:. Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917) is an American stage, movie, and television actress. When she was 19 she became the king's mistress, having previously been the mistress of Lord Buckhurst. Having first made a living selling oranges, she became an actress (not at that time a respectable profession) when she was fifteen.

(Her mother died because she passed out from too much brandy and drowned in a brook.). Her mother ran a bawdyhouse, where Nell grew up. The daughter of Thomas Gywnne and his wife Rose, Nell Gwyn was probably born in an alley near Covent Garden (though sometimes said to have been born in Hereford) and never learned to read or write. Nell Gwyn (or Gwynn or Gwynne), (February 1650 - 14 November 1687), the most famous of the many mistresses of King Charles II, was called "pretty, witty Nell" by Samuel Pepys.