Fay Holden

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Fay Holden (born September 26, 1893 in Birmingham , England , † June 23, 1973 in Los Angeles ; actually Dorothy Fay Hammerton ) was a British theater and film actress .

Life

Fay Holden, a native of Dorothy Fay Hammerton, was born in 1893 to Kate and Dr. Henry Hammerton in Birmingham . According to English tradition, she received an educator and attended private schools. At the age of nine she was already on stage as a dancer, where she later turned to acting. After she moved to the United States , she worked as an actress at the Pasadena Playhouse in California . In 1927 and 1929 she also appeared as Gaby Holden on New York's Broadway . She then returned to England for four years. In the mid-1930s she finally went to Hollywood , where she was signed by MGM and made her film debut in her early 40s. In her first two films, The Pace That Kills (1935) and Little Town with Tradition ( I Married a Doctor , 1936), she appeared under the name Gaby Fay, after which she took her stage name Fay Holden. From then on she was seen in numerous supporting roles, such as in Shipwreck of Souls ( Souls at Sea , 1937) with Gary Cooper and in Der Testpilot ( Test Pilot , 1938) with Clark Gable . She became famous in the USA when she played the mother of Mickey Rooney in 14 films in the Andy Hardy series from 1939 , who was played by Spring Byington in the first film in the series . In Mervyn LeRoy's orphan drama Blossoms in the Dust ( Blossoms in the Dust , 1941) Holden was also the mother of Greer Garson to see. In 1958 she withdrew from the film business.

In 1914 she married the actor David Clyde, with whom she lived on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley in the early 1940s . This connection lasted until Clyde's death in 1945. Fay Holden died of cancer in Los Angeles in 1973 at the age of 79 . She was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Fay Holden  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Howard Dietz, Howard Strickling: Who's Who at Metro Goldwyn Mayer . Loew's, 1942, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Holden, Fay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammerton, Dorothy Fay (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States