Dinah Beth Manoff (born January 25, 1956) is an American stage, film, and television actress and television director.
 She is best known for her roles as Elaine Lefkowitz on "Soap", Marty Maraschino in the film "Grease", Libby Tucker in both the stage and film adaptations of "I Ought to Be in Pictures", for which she won a Tony award, and Carol Weston on "Empty Nest".
 She has starred in numerous television movies and guest-starred on various television programs.
 She mostly appeared on TV during the 1990s, but she has been seen in more recent theatrical films, such as "The Amati Girls" and "Bart Got a Room", and a co-starring role on "State of Grace".
Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell, October 16, 1923April 10, 1965) was an American film actress.
 Darnell progressed from modeling as a child to acting in theater and film as an adolescent.
 At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s.
 She rose to fame with co-starring roles opposite Tyrone Power in adventure films, and established a main character career after her role in "Forever Amber" (1947).
 She won critical acclaim for her work in "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948) and "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949).
Kay Nelson née Bushard was a Hollywood costume designer at 20th Century Fox whose first film was "Up in Mabel's Room" in 1944.
 Over the next 17 years she provided the costumes for such films as "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945), "Boomerang", "Miracle on 34th Street" and "Gentleman's Agreement" (all 1947) and "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949).
Isabel Sanford (born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford; August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004) was an American stage, film and television actress and comedian best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills-Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms "All in the Family" (1971–1975) and "The Jeffersons" (1975–1985).
 In 1981, she became the second black American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award, and the first to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
 Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and he twice won the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950).
Teri Copley (born May 10, 1961) is an American actress and model.
 She is known for role on the American NBC/syndicated television series "We Got It Made" which premiered in 1983, and she subsequently co-starred on the 1985 CBS television series "I Had Three Wives".
 She appeared in the 1984 television film "I Married a Centerfold" and the 1992 film "Brain Donors".
 She posed nude and was the cover girl for "Playboy" for the November 1990 issue.
 In the 1990s Copley became a born-again Christian and slowly eased her way out of celebrity Hollywood.
Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress.
Fay Baker (born Fay Schwager; January 31, 1917 – December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress, and a successful author under the pen name Beth Holmes.
 Her novel, "The Whipping Boy", made the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller list in 1978.
 She also published, under her own name, "My Darling, Darling Doctors".
June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer.
A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women, telling them she has left town with the husband of one of them.
 It stars Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Paul Douglas in his film debut, Kirk Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, and Thelma Ritter.
 An uncredited Celeste Holm provides the voice of Addie Ross, the unseen woman who wrote the titular letter.

Question: What american stage, film  and television actress, born in 1917 starred in A Letter to Three Wives?
Answer: Celeste Holm