Fay Holden
Fay Holden ( born September 26, 1893 in Birmingham, England, † June 23, 1973 in Los Angeles, actually Dorothy Fay Hammerton ) was a British theater and film actress.
Life
Fay Holden, born Dorothy Fay Hammerton, came in 1893 as the daughter of Kate and Dr. Henry Hammerton in Birmingham to the world. According to English tradition, she received a governess and attended private schools. At the age of nine she was a dancer on the stage, where she later turned to acting. After she moved to the United States, she worked as an actress at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. 1927 and 1929 she appeared as Gaby Holden also on Broadway. She then returned to England for four years. Mid-1930s, she finally went to Hollywood, where she was taken by MGM contract and made her film debut with top 40. In her first two films, The Pace That Kills (1935 ) and Small city with tradition (I Married a Doctor, 1936), she performed under the name Gaby Fay, then she took her stage name Fay Holden. From then on, she appeared in numerous supporting roles, as in shipwreck of souls ( Souls at Sea, 1937) with Gary Cooper and the test pilot ( test pilot, 1938) with Clark Gable. Notoriety she gained in the U.S., as they in 1939 into 14 films of Andy Hardy series played the mother of Mickey Rooney, who was still embodied in the first film of the series of Spring Byington. Mervyn LeRoy's In orphan drama Blossoms in the Dust ( Blossoms in the Dust, 1941) Holden was also seen as the mother of Greer Garson. In 1958 she retired from the film business.
In 1914 she married actor David Clyde, with whom she lived on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley in the early 1940s. This connection lasted up to Clyde's death in 1945. Fay Holden died in 1973 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles from cancer. She was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.