Gloria Holden

Gloria Holden

Born: September 5, 1903
Died: March 22, 1991
in London, England, UK
From Wikipedia

Gloria Anna Holden (September 5, 1903 – March 22, 1991) was an English-born American film actress, best known for her 1936 role as Dracula's Daughter in the film of the same title.

Movies for Gloria Holden...

The Many Faces of Dracula
Title: The Many Faces of Dracula
Character: Countess Marya Zaleska (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Countess Marya Zaleska (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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This Happy Feeling
Title: This Happy Feeling
Character: Mrs. Dover
Released: June 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Janet Blake leaves a party when her boss drunkenly makes passes at her and is offered a ride to the subway with Bill Tremaine. When she thinks Bill is making advances too, she flees into a rainstorm and ends up at the house of his neighbor, retired actor Preston Mitchell. Preston hires her as his secretary, and soon both men are pursuing Janet.
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The Eddy Duchin Story
Title: The Eddy Duchin Story
Character: Mrs. Duchin
Released: May 2, 1956
Type: Movie
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Dream Wife
Title: Dream Wife
Character: Mrs. Jean Landwell
Released: June 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Title: Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Character: Clarissa Pennock
Released: June 25, 1952
Type: Movie
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Alexandrine Zola
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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A Kiss for Corliss
Title: A Kiss for Corliss
Character: Mrs. Janet Archer
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: Louise Cannon
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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Perilous Waters
Title: Perilous Waters
Character: Mrs. Ferris
Released: February 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
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Killer McCoy
Title: Killer McCoy
Character: Mrs. Laura McCoy
Released: December 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.
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The Hucksters
Title: The Hucksters
Character: Mrs. Kimberly
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
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Undercover Maisie
Title: Undercover Maisie
Character: Mrs. Jane Canford
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
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Sister Kenny
Title: Sister Kenny
Character: Mrs. McDonnell (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1946
Type: Movie
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Hit the Hay
Title: Hit the Hay
Character: Mimi Valdez
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
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Strange Holiday
Title: Strange Holiday
Character: Mrs. Jean Stevenson
Released: October 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.
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The Girl of the Limberlost
Title: The Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Miss Nelson
Released: October 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
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Adventures of Rusty
Title: Adventures of Rusty
Character: Louise Hover
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
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Having Wonderful Crime
Title: Having Wonderful Crime
Character: Phyllis Gray (as Anje Berens)
Released: April 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
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Behind the Rising Sun
Title: Behind the Rising Sun
Character: Sara Braden
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
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Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: Mrs. James V. Thorne
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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Miss Annie Rooney
Title: Miss Annie Rooney
Character: Mrs. White
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
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A Gentleman After Dark
Title: A Gentleman After Dark
Character: Miss Clark
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
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Don't Talk
Title: Don't Talk
Character: Beulah Anderson aka Beulah Binvicko
Released: February 28, 1942
Type: Movie
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Character: Countess Franchi
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Cultured Mario and outlaw Lucien, twins separated at birth, join forces to avenge their parents' death at the hands of evil Colonna. Because each feels all the same sensations experienced by the other, swordplay is difficult for them. Worse yet, raised very differently, they struggle to find common ground between their conflicting personalities. But to defeat their enemy, the two will have to overcome the obstacles and work as a team.
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Passage from Hong Kong
Title: Passage from Hong Kong
Character: Madame Wrangell
Released: September 1, 1941
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
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This Thing Called Love
Title: This Thing Called Love
Character: Genevieve Hooper
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Mrs. Kempner
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Madame Rapport
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Mrs. Cole
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Girls' School
Title: Girls' School
Character: Miss Laurel
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
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Test Pilot
Title: Test Pilot
Character: Mrs. May Benson
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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Hawaii Calls
Title: Hawaii Calls
Character: Mrs. Milburn
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: Marian Morgan
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
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The Life of Emile Zola
Title: The Life of Emile Zola
Character: Alexandrine Zola
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Countess Marya Zaleska
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Joan Carstairs
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.