Profile
Judy Holliday
Actress
Female
Born
Jun 21, 1921
Hometown
New York City, Ne...
Died
Jun 7, 1965
Death Place
New York City, Ne...
Other Names
Tuvim, Judith
Judy Holliday was an American actress. Holliday began her career as part of a night-club act, before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday as "Billie Dawn" led to her being cast in the 1950… Read More
Romance
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Dave OppenheimMarried 1948
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1921
Birth
Born on June 21, 1921.
TEENAGE
1938
17 Years Old
Holliday began her show business career in 1938 as part of a night-club act called "The Revuers."
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TWENTIES
1944
23 Years Old
In 1944, she played a small but noticeable role as an airman's wife in the Twentieth Century Fox film version of the U.S. Army Air Forces' hit play Winged Victory.
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1945
24 Years Old
Holliday made her Broadway debut on March 20, 1945, at the Belasco Theatre in Kiss Them for Me and was one of the recipients that year of the Clarence Derwent Award.
1946
25 Years Old
In 1946, she returned to Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday.
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1948
27 Years Old
She was survived by her young son, Jonathan Oppenheim, and by her ex-husband, clarinetist, conductor and educator, David Oppenheim, whom she had married in 1948 and divorced in 1958.
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1949
28 Years Old
Kanin, together with George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn, conspired to promote Holliday by offering her a key part in the 1949 film Adam's Rib.
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1950
29 Years Old
In 1950 Holliday was the subject of an FBI investigation looking into allegations that she was a Communist.
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THIRTIES
1952
31 Years Old
In 1952 she was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to "explain" why her name had been linked to Communist front organizations.
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In November 1956 she returned to Broadway starring in the musical Bells Are Ringing with book and lyrics by her Revuers friends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and directed by Jerome Robbins, for which she won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.
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In October 1960 she had started out-of-town tryouts on the play Laurette, based on the life of Laurette Taylor.
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FORTIES
1963
42 Years Old
Holliday's last role was in the stage musical Hot Spot, which closed after 43 performances on May 25, 1963.
1965
44 Years Old
Holliday died from breast cancer on June 7, 1965.
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