Gloria Holden

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Gloria Holden (born September 5, 1903 in London , England , † March 22, 1991 in Redlands , California ) was a British - American actress. She achieved lasting fame through the films Dracula's Daughter and The Life of Emile Zola .

Life

Gloria Holden was born in London but grew up in the United States. There she completed her training as a dancer and operetta singer. She was active on Broadway from the early 1930s until she was asked to audition in Hollywood by Clarence Brown in the mid-1930s . She got a contract with Universal Studios and immediately got a lead role that made her a star.

She became known through the film Dracula's Daughter , in which she played the title role. She portrayed this in a mysteriously exotic way. A year later she played the female lead in The Life of Emile Zola , which received the Oscar for best film. But she never got as big a success as with these two films, from then on she only had minor supporting roles in bigger films like The Test Pilot or Lord of the Wild West .

The next few years she played in mostly insignificant films with lesser known actors, and there, too, became a supporting actress. After small roles in comedies such as The Greyhound and the Lady (1947), Loved In All Eternity (1956) and The Great Aunt (1958), she retired from the film business in 1958 after around 40 films.

In addition to her work as an actress, Holden also worked for radio. For example, before her first film casting, she worked for six months for the Eddie Cantor radio show . In 1943, she said the mother role in the teen comedy series Meet Corliss Archer of CBS . From 1944 until her death in 1991 from a heart attack , she was married to William Hoyt. They had a son, Christopher Hoyt, who died in 1970 at the age of just 26. From a previous relationship with Harry Dawson Reynolds, Holden had an older son, Larry Holden (1922-1997), who was active as an actor under the name Glen Corbett. He was married to the Canadian actress Adrianne Ellis with whom he has two children, Laurie Holden and Christopher Holden, who are thus Gloria Holden's grandchildren and also actors.

Filmography

  • 1945: Hit the Hay
  • 1945: The Girl of the Limberlost
  • 1945: Adventures of Rusty
  • 1945: Having Wonderful Crime
  • 1945: Strange Holiday
  • 1947: Killer McCoy
  • 1947: The Greyhound and the Lady (The Hucksters)
  • 1947: Undercover Maisie
  • 1948: Perilous Waters
  • 1949: A Kiss for Corliss
  • 1949: The Sickle or the Cross
  • 1950: The Marionette Mystery
  • 1952: Has anyone seen my bride? (Has Anybody Seen My Gal?)
  • 1953: You and no other (Dream Wife)
  • 1956: Loved Forever (The Eddy Duchin Story)
  • 1958: Men Over Forty (This Happy Feeling)
  • 1958: The great aunt (Auntie Mame)

Web links

Commons : Gloria Holden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas, John Brunas: Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946. McFarland, Jefferson, NC 2007, p. 168.
  2. ↑ Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas, John Brunas: Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946. McFarland, Jefferson, NC 2007, p. 165.
  3. ↑ Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas, John Brunas: Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946. McFarland, Jefferson, NC 2007, p. 169.
  4. ^ John Dunning: On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press, New York 1998, p. 444.
  5. ↑ Gloria Holden nndb.com, accessed November 18, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Holden, Gloria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1991
Place of death Redlands , California