Academy Award winning star William Holden was born on this date in 1918.
Turner Classic Movies runs Holden movies during the daytime hours on Friday. The schedule (all times Eastern): 6:45 am Invisible Stripes (1940); 8:15 am Our Town (1940); 10:00 am Rachel and the Stranger (1948); 11:30 am Escape from Fort Bravo (1953); 1:15 pm Executive Suite (1954); 3:15 pm Born Yesterday (1950); 5:00 pm The Moon Is Blue (1953).
Here’s Holden’s 1981 obituary from the Associated Press (Click to open Google News page in new tab):
Here’s a remembrance of Holden just after his passing that confuses him with the older actor of the same name from early talkies. Actually, we can blame The New York Times Directory of Film, because that’s who the writer cites. The actor that made those late ’20s-early ’30s films wasn’t a 10-year-old William Holden, but this actor, who died in 1932.
Here’s the earlier Holden’s obit, found in Variety, March 8, 1932, page 63:
You realize that Bill Holden really sad story bled to death in hotel room in SO CAL
Right he was total a**** to his neighbors sadly to report it is true