Charlotte Greenwood

b. 25 June 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 18 January 1978, Beverly Hills, California, USA. A tall, slender and immensely likeable musical comedy and film actress who graced several musical pictures in the 40s with her spunky and eccentric style and amazingly loose-jointed high-kick. Greenwood first came to notice on Broadway in The Passing Show Of 1913, and in the following year made such an impression with her ‘flat-footed' kicks and ‘splits' in Pretty Miss Smith, particularly in one number, ‘Long, Lean, Lanky Letty', that producer Oliver Morosco re-titled the show...