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Celeste Holm: Financial Difficulty

Gentleman's Agreement Dept: NEW YORK, N.Y. - Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday, a relative said. She was 95, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Holm died around 3:30 a.m. at her longtime apartment on Central Park West, located in the same building where Robert De Niro lives and where a fire broke out last month, Phillips said and fILE- In this March 12, 1997, file photo, actress Celeste Holm poses at a friends' home in Santa Monica, Calif. Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentlemen's Agreement" but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday, July 15, 2012, a relative said. She was 95. AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration. She asked her husband on Friday to bring her home and 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 who answered the phone at Holm's apartment on Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.