Betty Lou Holland

Betty Lou Holland (born December 25, 1926) is an American actress who worked on stage, in television, and in film during the decades of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. She is best known for her work on Broadway and as a lead in a 1960 television adaptation of The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Biography

Betty Lou Holland was born in New York City, she began acting on the stage in the 1940s and appeared on Broadway. She was in "Call Me Mister," "Annie Get Your Gun", and "The Devil's Disciple."[1] In "The Member of the Wedding," she played a 12 year old when she was in her twenties.[2] She continued to act on stage through the 1950s, playing a leading role in "Six Characters in Search of an Author,"[3] and the George Bernard Shaw play, "The Disciple."[4]

Holland acted in television programs in the 1950s. Holland was one of the principal roles of the NBC television adaptation of "The Devil and Daniel Webster."[5] Holland played in the NBC-television special, "Johhny Belinda" in 1958.[6] She was also in including a TV version of Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" on the CBS series Danger on May 31, 1955.

She was in only two motion pictures, playing the role of Mrs. Faulkner, mother of Kim Stanley's character, in The Goddess (1958)[7] and playing Roz Moreland in The Man in the Net (1959).[8] In The Goddess, Holland recalls that the religious conversion scene, which was long, was applauded by the Hollywood crew, not for the acting, but because all actors had remembered their lines.[9]

She married Robert Cordier, a Belgian-Franco-American director and poet, in January 1962[10] in New York. They have two children.

References

  1. ↑ "Biltmore Presents 'The Member of the Wedding'". Covina Argus Citizen. 7 December 1951. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ "Miss Ethel Waters Coming to Hershey". Lebanon Daily News. 3 April 1952. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ Gaver, Jack (25 March 1956). "The Best Stay On Broadway". Anderson Sunday Herald. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ "Miss Betty Lou Holland". Bluefield Daily Telegraph. 9 April 1950. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  5. ↑ "'The Devil and Daniel Webster'". Cedar Rapids Gazette. 14 February 1960. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ Ewald, William (5 September 1958). "Television in Review". Redlands Daily Facts. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Bold and Daring - 'The Goddess' Opens Sunday New Ames Theatre". Ames Daily Tribune. 11 October 1958. Retrieved 19 January 2016 – via Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  8. ↑ "Filmography". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Krampner, Jon (2006). Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley. Back Stage Books. p. 131. ISBN 9780823088478.
  10. ↑ Styron, Rose, ed. (2012). Selected Letters of William Styron. Random House. p. 316. ISBN 9781400068067.


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