Gloria Holden
| Gloria Holden | |
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Holden in Dracula's Daughter (1936)
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| Born |
Gloria Anna Holden 5 September 1903 London, England, UK |
| Died | 22 March 1991 (aged 87) Redlands, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park, San Bernardino County, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1931–1958 |
| Spouse(s) | Harry Dawson Reynolds (1921-19??) Harold A. Winston (1932-1937) William Hoyt (1944–1991; her death) (1 son) |
| Children | Christopher Hoyt (1944-1970) |
Gloria Anna Holden (September 5, 1903 – March 22, 1991) was an American film actress, best known for her role as Dracula's Daughter.
Born in England, Gloria Holden emigrated to the U.S. as a child. Her mother Eska (née Bergmann) was German. She attended school in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and later studied at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Holden's early stage work included small parts in plays such as The Royal Family, in which she spoke four lines playing a nurse. She was an understudy to Mary Ellis in Children of Darkness, and had a minor role in That Ferguson Family. She succeeded Lilly Cahill as in As Husbands Go at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway, in June 1931. In August 1932, Holden was part of the cast of Manhattan Melody, at the Longacre Theatre. The Lawrence Hazard play, adapted by L. Lawrence Weber, also featured Helen Lowell, Minnie Dupree and William Corbett as players. She was the leading lady in Survivor (1933), written by D.L. James. Holden was among the cast members in Memory (1933), a Myron Fagan play.
She may be best remembered for two roles in her long career, that of Mme. Zola in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), and her "exotic" depiction of the title role in Dracula's Daughter (1936). Her performance in the latter influenced the writings of horror novelist Anne Rice, and Dracula's Daughter is directly mentioned in Rice's novel The Queen of the Damned. In July 1937, Holden was assigned to play the character of Marian Morgan in The Man Without a Country (1937). The Technicolor short co-starred John Litel and was nominated for an Academy Award.
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