West admired Gary's physical skills because Gary was a true free spirit on and off stage. Hollywood couple: Nancy and Ronald Regan with Bill and Ardis Holden, on left, after the Reagan's wedding at the Holden's house in Toluca Lake, California, 1952. "He was magnificent!" Epstein recounts the episode in 'Audrey and Bill' which describes in detail her little-told affair with Holden for the first time. He has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it. The conservancy is home to the critically endangered East African mountain bongo, and aims to prevent its extinction by breeding.[41][42]. When he stopped drinking, he came over to our house one night and we played a board game. She was 63, the same age as Holden when he died. Holden appeared uncredited in Prison Farm (1939) and Million Dollar Legs (1939) at Paramount. Reunited: Paris When It Sizzles in 1964 put the couple back together but it was a flop - the fireworks between them were long gone and the critics cruelly dubbed it 'Paris When It Fizzles'. The latter was shot in Africa and sparked a fascination with the continent that was to last until the end of Holden's life. After making S.O.B. After war's end, he was demobbed and returned to Hollywood to resume playing similar characters in similar movies. Hepburn delivered son Luca in 1970 at the age of 40 and happily stayed home nursing, rejecting the lead in Nicholas And Alexandra and the mother’s role in The Exorcist. West said he was never close with his father, but his mother was a golden age of cinema star, too. He came from a wealthy family (the Beedles) that moved to Pasadena, California, when he was three. The mother of his three children, Ardis had long learned to look the other way so long as Holden came home to her each night. I remember him telling me proudly he thought he had become a better actor than his father. Bogart responded by spitting his words, spraying saliva across her face. When I started covering theater in the early 1980s, the hottest gun-slinger in town was West Holden. "[13]:174 The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn, and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina.

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

The tragedy in his life was that he had a series of mini-strokes 20 years ago when he seemed to have his life together. She liked Holden and went out of her way to help him succeed, devoting her personal time to coaching and encouraging him, which made them into lifelong friends. [17], Their relationship did not last much beyond the completion of the film. It didn't take Ardis long to realize what she had to do; as soon as they closed the front door and waved her goodbye 'the gloves came off and (she) went into attack mode', author Edward Epstein writes. The implication was that his father never tried to open any doors for him. Borak said she screamed and begged them not to take him to the hospital. [4] They had two sons, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014)[43] and Scott Porter Holden.

He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema. His earlier training as a junior pugilist proved somewhat beneficial but it was self-effacing co-star Barbara Stanwyck who turned out to be most instrumental in helping him rehearse and overcoming his nerves to act alongside her and thespians Lee J. Cobb and Adolphe Menjou.

Holden married actress Brenda Marshall in 1941. He always was a kind man. The fact is, West had a hunger for acting, but couldn't stomach Hollywood. On February 7, 1955, Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself. It was a weighty, dialogue-driven play, but West found the key words to punch in every sentence and the dynamics to make the dialogue sing. But the bags got heavy so I finally thought to hell with it, and walked out.

"[47] Rumors existed that he was suffering from lung cancer, which Holden had denied at a 1980 press conference.

Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; although a registered Republican, he never involved himself in politics. What makes this "show" particularly worthwhile is the Q&A session after in which the actors talk about how their own experiences with bullying informed their performances. Irony: Sabrina saw Audrey Hepburn play the woman at the center of a love triangle with Humphrey Bogart (left) and William Holden (right). Hepburn's reaction was one of shock. Was an avid art collector. [34], In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder,[35] playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive. Brenda Marshall, who died in Palm Springs in 1992 at age 76, starred in such films as "Sea Hawk" with Errol Flynn and "Whispering Smith" with Alan Ladd. Son of William (December 12, 1891-November 18, 1967) and Mary (née Ball) Beedle (May 1, 1894-March 17, 1990). He was from a better background than Holden as well and his father was a well known Cuban American surgeon. That was to change - along with his image - when he was invited to play the part of caddish, down-on-his-luck scriptwriter Joe Gillis in Sunset Blvd. The most elite private members' club in the world. Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr., on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher, and her husband William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist. In 1973, Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop. “Bill, stop that!” she exclaimed, sending Holden on another bender. Holden's first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), costarring Barbara Stanwyck, in which he played a violinist-turned-boxer. They're not the typical, "He's in a better place now." “But her desire for children was overwhelming and though it broke her heart to leave Bill she knew she wanted children of her own.”. William Holden died one day before his eldest son Peter's 38th birthday.

In the 1970s he purchased a large acreage of land with his own money and began an animal sanctuary. “Audrey was stunned,” says Epstein. At Paramount, he was in a comedy with Ginger Rogers that was not particularly popular, Forever Female (1953). She wanted to get married.” The 44-year-old Holden was not only 11 years senior to Hepburn but he was also a married man with three children.



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