This intelligent, warmly maternal character actress first made her mark in the theater in the late 1930s and early 40s. After stock work, the native New Yorker made her Broadway debut in "Glorianna" (1938), then went on to create the role of the raucous Ado Annie (the "girl who can't say no") in the original 1943 stage production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!". Holm went on to star as the early feminist Dolly Bloomer in the musical "Bloomer Girl" (1944) before moving to features. She continued to make stage appearances throughout her career, making her return in "Affairs of State"
