Betty Lou Holland is an American

United States

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 actress.

Born in New York City

New York City

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, she began acting on the stage

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 in the 1940s and appeared in some plays on Broadway

Broadway theatre

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.

Holland acted in a couple of television

Television

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 programs

Television program

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 in the 1950s, including a TV version of Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was...

's "The Birds

The Birds (story)

"The Birds" is a famous novelette by Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community, who are attacked by flocks of seabirds who have organized themselves into avian suicide warriors. The story is set in...

" on the CBS series Danger

Danger (TV series)

Danger is an anthology series which brought half hour-long dramas to television from 1950 to 1955.-Television:It first aired on September 19, 1950 on CBS. The first episode, entitled "The Black Door", was directed by Yul Brynner with a story by Henry Norton and a teleplay by Irving Elman. It...

on May 31, 1955.

She was in only two motion pictures

Film

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, playing the role of Mrs. Faulkner, mother of Kim Stanley

Kim Stanley

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's character, in The Goddess (1958

1958 in film

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) and playing Roz Moreland in The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net

The Man in the Net is an American film noir starring Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones. The taut drama was directed by Michael Curtiz.-Plot:...

(1959

1959 in film

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).

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

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