Charlene Holt
Charlene Holt ( born April 28, 1928 in Snyder, Scurry County, Texas; born Verna Charlene Staveley; ; † April 5, 1996 in Brentwood, Williamson County, Tennessee married Tishman ) was an American actress and model. She was best known for roles in films of Howard Hawks.
Life and work
After she dropped out of college, she began in the 1950s, a career as a model. In 1956 she became Miss Maryland and then worked it initially as a model for swimwear. She moved to New York City and was taken by the prestigious modeling agency Eileen Ford, Ford Models, under contract. In the following years she made mainly with advertising for high-priced beauty products a name that was when Miss Sweater Girl advertising wearer for the lobbying association Wool Bureau of the U.S. wool industry, was in numerous commercials in the cinema and on television, and rose to a of the highest paid American models on their time.
Since the early 1960s, she began to appear in small supporting roles in film and television, often in crime series such as Perry Mason. They embodied the most confident and glamorous types of women because of their tall and extravagant appearance. For the A movie in Hollywood, she discovered the success of director Howard Hawks, when he saw her in a commercial for the brand Revlon lipsticks. In the following years he cast her in three of his films next to high-profile leading men of Hollywood cinema: in 1964 she was in a goldfish on a leash the Texas Southwestern fiancee Connors personified by Rock Hudson male protagonist; In 1965 she starred in the action film Red Line 7000 as Lindy Bonaparte one of the girlfriends of Embodied by James Caan racer Mike. The climax and conclusion of her film career in 1966 formed the role of the hotel owner Maudie in the Western El Dorado. As a woman between two men - played by John Wayne and Robert Mitchum - she played the first and only developed minor role in their film work and convinced both audiences and critics. The film was a success at the box office.
After the filming of El Dorado in the same year she married the wealthy building contractor William A. Tishman. It turned out that she had made ten years younger. After her film career ended abruptly and she appeared only occasionally in small roles in B-movies and on television, for example in 1968 in two episodes of the crime series It Takes a Thief! opposite Robert Wagner in 1974 and the first television film adaptation of the comic substance Wonder Woman, which she in the title role is the Amazon queen Hippolyte next to Cathy Lee Crosby. The marriage with Tishman was divorced in 1973. In the feature film Melvin and Howard Jonathan Demme had in 1980 in a tiny supporting role as Mrs. Worth their last appearance on screen or screen at all. She pulled completely out of show business and died of the film world forget with 67 years in Tennessee.
Evaluation as an actress
The design of the role of Maudie by Holt was highlighted positively by both Howard Hawks and Martin Scorsese. Hawks praised in an interview that she had been " really good actress," especially in an El Dorado, only they did very much want to be a star, played on the effect the audience back and was also privately unpredictable ( Hawks says " dangerous" ) been. Martin Scorsese, however, paid tribute to her full of praise for her performance in El Dorado and was impressed by their " casual nature " and " pleasant smoky voice" ( " easy going manner"; " likably husky voice" ). Had she been born a few decades earlier, Scorsese, they would probably become a big star.