From a gas statn, he arranged liaisons and worked as a prostute for gay and straight stars.
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- WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOV JANUARY 23, 2016 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 19 HOLN ESPE FROM FORT BRAVO (1953)WILLIAM HOLN FEATURED A LOT OF VERY GOOD MOVI DURG HIS REER. WOMEN ADORED HIM, EVEN MEN GDGGLY NCED THAT HE WAS BOTH GGED AND CHARMG, CERTALY NO K SOP. UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS ALSO AN ALHOLIC, OM HIS TEENS UNTIL THE DAY HE DIED. HE WAS GIFTED WH TALENT, LOOKS, CHARM AND CHARISMA. HE WAS ALSO STRONG, FEARLS AND TELLIGENT, BLSED WH ALL THE QUALI THAT MOST OTHER MEN N ONLY DREAM OF. AND YET HE DRANK ALL AWAY.HOLN & STANWYCK GOLN BOYHE WAS BORN WILLIAM BEEDLE JUNR ILLOIS 1918. HIS FAY MOVED TO PASANA, CALIFORNIA WHEN HE WAS THREE, AND 16 YEARS LATER, 1937, HE WAS SIGNED BY PARAMOUNT PICTUR BEE OF HIS LOOKS ALONE. THE STUD THREW HIM TO GOLN BOY WHEN HE WAS 20 AND NOWHERE NEAR READY TO RRY A MAJOR FILM. HIS SECURY, LACK OF NFINCE, LED TO HIS NEED FOR REASSURANCE THROUGH ALHOL. NEARLY 5,000 ACTORS WENT AFTER THE PART, BUT BARBARA STANWYCK PHED HARD FOR HIM TO GET , AND SHE RRIED NSIRABLE CLOUT BACK THEN. THE STUD RELENTED AND BILL HOLN’S REER MENCED. HE AND STANWYCK HAD A TWO-YEAR ROMANCE THAT END WHEN HE MET BRENDA MARSHALL. BRENDA MARSHALL (ARDIS) & HOLNAFTER WAR SERVICE HOLN RETURNED TO HOLLYWOOD OLR AND WISER. IN 1950 HE LAND TWO PLUM ROL, ONE OPPOSE GLORIA SWANSON SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE OTHER ALONGSI THE ZANY JUDY HOLLIDAY BORN YTERDAY. THREE YEARS LATER HE REACHED THE TOP OF THE PILE BY WNG A BT ACTOR OSR FOR STALAG 13. YET, EVEN WH ALL THIS SUCCS AT HIS FEET HE WAS, BY THEN, HOPELSLY ADDICTED TO BOOZE. HIS WIFE SCE 1941 WAS ACTRS BRENDA MARSHALL (KNOWN AS ARDIS TO HER FAY AND IENDS), AND SHE SOON TIRED OF HIS DNKENNS, FOR BILL HOLN WAS A NASTY, NASTY DNK. THEIR MARRIAGE FALTERED QUICKLY, BEG LTLE MORE THAN A SERI OF SEPARATNS AS HOLN TOOK LOVERS WHEREVER HE FOUND THEM AND ARDIS LED HER OWN LIFE.WH GLORIA SWANSON – SUNSET BOULEVARDAND WH JUDY HOLLIDAY BORN YTERDAYBILL AND HIS OSR FOR STALAG 13BY THE TIME FILMG HAD PLETED ON SABRA 1954, HOLN AND HIS -STAR AUDREY HEPBURN WERE MADLY LOVE. SHE WOULD LATER BREAK OFF, PARTLY BEE OF HIS ALHOLISM, BUT MALY BEE SHE DISVERED HE ULD NEVER HAVE CHILDREN. AND AUDREY SPERATELY WANTED THEM. HE LIED TO HER FOR MONTHS BEFORE FALLY ADMTG HE HAD UNRGONE A VASECTOMY A UPLE OF YEARS EARLIER. SHE END THEIR RELATNSHIP ON THE SPOT. AUDREY MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREPARED TO PUT UP WH HIS ALHOLISM, BUT THE PROSPECT OF A MARRIAGE WHOUT CHILDREN WAS UNACCEPTABLE. AND HE HAD BLATANTLY LIED TO HER. SHE ULD NO LONGER TST HIM.WH AUDREY HEPBURN SABRAALTHOUGH THE UPLE HAD BEEN EXTREMELY DISCREET ABOUT THEIR ROMANCE, A CREW MEMBER ON THE SET OF SABRA HAD WALKED TO HOLN’S DRSG ROOM WHOUT KNOCKG ON ONE OCSN, AND UGHT THEM AN ‘TIMATE MOMENT’. SOON AFTERWARDS, BILL TOOK AUDREY HOME TO MEET ARDIS. IN FACT, HE ALWAYS BROUGHT HIS GIRLIENDS HOME TO MEET HER. IT WAS THAT KD OF MARRIAGE. ARDIS IMMEDIATELY REALIZED THAT THIS PARTICULAR GIRLIEND WAS DIFFERENT TO THE RT. THIS ONE HER HBAND REALLY RED FOR. AUDREY WAS NICENS AND CLASS PERSONIFIED. ARDIS TOLD HER HBAND TO END , BUT AUDREY SOON DID THAT OF HER OWN ACRD. SHE MET MEL FERRER AND THEN PARAMOUNT STEPPED .AUDREY MARRI MEL FERRERDPE THEIR DISCRETN, BILL AND AUDREY WERE SOON FOUND OUT BY PARAMOUNT. WHEN AUDREY REBOUND TO MEL FERRER (WHO WANTED KIDS AS MUCH AS SHE DID), THE STUD SISTED THAT THEIR ENGAGEMENT BE ANNOUNCED TO THE MEDIA THE PRENCE OF HOLN AND HIS WIFE THEIR HOME. MEDIA SPICNS NEED TO BE PUT TO RT. IT WAS DULY DONE. AUDREY ALSO DATED JFK BEFORE HE WAS MARRIED. WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE TIMATE IS UNKNOWN, BUT GIVEN HIS TRACK RERD, THAT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE. THEN AGA, THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS VERY BRIEF, SO MAYBE AUDREY STOOD HER GROUND. EHER WAY, THEY MT HAVE REMAED IENDS BEE THE YEAR AFTER MARILYN MONROE SANG ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ TO HIM WAS AUDREY’S TURN TO DO SO, WHICH SHE DID, AT WHAT WOULD BE HIS LAST BIRTHDAY.HER NDUCT DURG WORLD WAR TWO HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED. SHE OCSNALLY LIVERED MSAG FOR THE RISTANCE. IN FACT, A GREAT MANY DUTCH CHILDREN WERE ED FOR THIS BEE THE OCCUPYG GERMANS DID NOT SEARCH THEM. SHE ALSO WORKED AS A NURSE TENDG WOUND BRISH SOLDIERS DURG THE FIGHTG ARNHEM. WHAT IS LS KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC IS THAT BOTH HER PARENTS WERE NAZI SYMPATHIZERS! HER MOTHER ATTEND AT LEAST ONE NUREMBERG RALLY, AND EVEN WROTE A GLOWG REPORT ABOUT THE FASCIST MAGAZE BLACKSHIRT. AUDREY’S FATHER, ALSO A MEMBER OF THE FASCIST PARTY, WAS ‘TAED’ ON ORRS OF THE HOE OF COMMONS FOR THE DURATN OF THE WAR. AUDREY NEVER EMBRACED HER PARENTS’ BELIEFS FOR A MOMENT.BILL HOLN & GRACE KELLYSHELLEY WTERSJACKIE KENNEDYHOLN WENT ON TO OTHER AFFAIRS, HIS ALHOLISM G EACH TURN. IN THE SAME YEAR SABRA WAS RELEASED HE EMBARKED UPON A SHORT BUT TORRID AFFAIR WH HIS -STAR THE BRIDG AT TOKO-RI, THE STUNNG MAN-EATER GRACE KELLY. HE AND SHELLEY WTERS HAD AN TERTG ARRANGEMENT. ONCE A YEAR THEY WOULD MEET AT A HOTEL FOR A NIGHT OF PASSN, THEN GO THEIR OWN WAY THE FRENCH BETY CAPUCE WAS WH HIM THE SIXTI FOR A UPLE OF YEARS. EVEN JACKIE KENNEDY WARMED HIS BED FOR A WHILE.WH ANOTHER LOVER, CAPUCEIN 1966, HE WAS DNK-DRIVG TNY, ITALY WHEN HE CRASHED HIS VEHICLE TO ANOTHER, KILLG THE DRIVER. HE WAS GIVEN A SHAMEFULLY AQUATE EIGHT-MONTH SPEND SENTENCE. IT WAS NOTHG MORE THAN A SLAP ON THE WRIST, BUT PROVED TO BE THE LAST STRAW FOR ARDIS, HIS WIFE. (BRENDA MARSHALL ALWAYS PREFERRED TO BE LLED BY HER REAL CHRISTIAN NAME). SHE HAD NOTHG MORE TO DO WH HIM AND THEY OFFICIALLY DIVORCED 1971.HIS LAST AFFAIR PROVED TO BE THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE. IT WAS WH THE FORMER STAR OF HART TO HART, THE GEO STEFANIE POWERS. SHE WAS A SMART, NO NONSENSE WOMAN, SEEMGLY FAR HAPPIER LOOKG AFTER ANIMALS ON HOLN’S KENYAN RANCH, THAN ALG WH THE PHONY WORLD OF HOLLYWOOD HOOPLA. THEIR RELATNSHIP LASTED TEN YEARS UNTIL 1979. WHEN THEY MET, SHE WAS 32 AND HE 56.HIS LAST LOVE STEFANIE POWERSSOON AFTER THEY BEGAN SEEG ONE ANOTHER STEFANIE STOPPED TO SEE HOLN PALM SPRGS AND FOUND HIM NVULSG OM ALHOL POISONG. HE ULD STOP DRKG WHEN HE WAS WH HER, BUT HIS IENDS LED HIM ASTRAY WHENEVER THEY WERE APART. BILL AND STEFANIE SHARED A LOVE FOR AI AND HUNTG, ALTHOUGH HOLN’S HUNTG DAYS END THE DAY HE SHOT AN ANTELOPE HER PRENCE. HE LOOKED DOWN AT THE SLENR NECK AND LARGE EY OF HIS ‘KILL’, AND WAS VISIBLY SHAKEN. ‘OH, MY GOD’, HE EXCLAIMED. ‘I’VE JT SHOT AUDREY HEPBURN.’ HE NEVER HUNTED AGA. STEFANIE LEARNED LATER OF HIS AFFAIR WH MISS HEPBURN.BY 1979 WAS OVER. HOLN’S DRKG HAD BEE PROGRSIVELY WORSE, AND STEFANIE ULD NO LONGER NTUE PUTTG UP WH HIS ERRATIC, DANGERO BEHAVUR. TWO YEARS LATER SHE HEARD ON THE RAD THAT HE HAD TRIPPED OVER WHILE DNK HIS HOTEL ROOM AND STCK HIS HEAD ON A TABLE, SEVERG AN ARTERY. HE BLED TO ATH ON THE FLOOR, AND LAY HIS ROOM UNTIL DISVERED FOUR DAYS LATER. ‘I DIDN’T PE WELL AT ALL’, STEFANIE RELLED. ‘I WAS MOURNG FOR AG.’DIRECTOR BILLY WILR, A LONG-TIME ADMIRER OF HOLN, ULD NOT BELIEVE HE HAD DIED SUCH A POTLS, MUNDANE WAY. ‘I WOULD HAVE ASSUMED THAT HE HAD BEEN GORED BY A WATER BUFFALO KENYA’, HE SAID.’ THAT HE HAD DIED A PLANE CRASH APPROACHG HONG KONG, THAT A CRAZED JEALO WOMAN HAD SHOT HIM, AND HE DROWNED A SWIMMG POOL. BUT TO BE KILLED BY A BOTTLE OF VODKA AND A NIGHT TABLE – WHAT A LOY FA-OUT OF A GREAT GUY!’DREY HEPBURNBARBARA STANWYCKBILLY WILRBORN YTERDAYBRENDA MARSHALLPUCEPE OM FORT BRAVOGLORIA SWANSONGOLN BOYGRACE KELLYHART TO HARTJACKIE KENNEDYJUDY HOLLIDAYMEL FERRERSHELLY WTERSSTALAG 13STEFANIE POWERSSUNSET BOULEVARDTHE BRIDG AT TOKO-RNY R CRASHWILLIAM HOLN PREVGOOD GUYS & GALS (PT 1) NEXTOMAR SHARIF -EGYPT’S SUPERSTAR. 19 COMMENTS NARELLE ROSE COX JULY 30, 2023 AT 9:39 AM BILL HOLN WAS ONE OF MY FAVOURE ACTORS. HE ALWAYS GAVE STRONG, QUALY PERFORMANC. SO MANY MEMORABLE AND FABULO PERFORMANC, BUT BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI IS RIGHT UP THERE FOR ME. THE DANCE SEQUENCE PIIC WH KIM NOVAK, WAS ONE OF THE MOST SENSUAL DANC SCEN I HAVE EVER WATCHED, BRILLIANT. I LOVED ALL HIS MOVI. BETIFUL TO LOOK AT WH THAT EP GEO SOUNDG VOICE, JT LOVED HIM. WILDLIFE NSERVATN WAS ONE OF HIS PASSNS AND HE CERTALY LEFT HIS MARK. HE HAD HIS MONS AND LEFT WAY TO SOON, BUT I LIKE TO REMEMBER BY THE POSIVE ATTRIBUT BILL HAD AND THE MARVELO BODY OF WORK HE LEFT BEHD. RIP BILL, MISSED BUT NOT FOTTEN. XREPLY APRIL JULY 7, 2023 AT 12:46 PM THANK YOU FOR THIS ARTICLE. VERY TERTG AND SAD TO LEARN OF WILLIAM HOLR’S STGGL AND CHALLENGG LIFE OF THE WONRFUL ACTOR, WILLIAM HOLN. I’M A HUGE CLASSIC MOVIE BUFF AND APPRECIATE YOUR WEBSE VERY MUCH!REPLY RICK APRIL 21, 2023 AT 4:52 AM HE IMPRSED ME AS A ‘MAN’S MAN’ BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI AND I JT FISHED WATCHG THE EARTHLG, HIS NEXT-TO-LAST FILM. A GREAT ACTOR WHO WAS TORTURED APPARENTLY, LIFE N BE SO STRANGE.REPLY ALAN ROYLE APRIL 26, 2023 AT 8:00 PM I THOUGHT HE WAS OUTSTANDG A WTERN TLED ‘ESPE OM FORT BRAVO’ THE FIFTI. RICK. A NO-NONSENSE ACTOR.REPLY NIGEL MARCH 15, 2023 AT 6:24 AM JT WATCHG THE MOVIE PIIC HE SURE WAS A VERY HANDSOME CHAP, WHAT A WAY TO END A GREAT ACTORS LIFE.REPLY RUTH MAY 14, 2023 AT 3:02 AM WATCHG PIIC NOW. LOVE THE FAL SCEN. HE LOOKED OLR THAN HIS AGE–PROBABLY DUE TO ALHOL AND FAST LIVG (WAS 37 AND LOOKED 42).REPLY MARSHA MOSHER MAY 14, 2023 AT 5:17 AM I’VE YET TO WATCH ’S ON MY LIST. LOVED THAT MAN.REPLY DOROTHY MART JANUARY 2, 2023 AT 2:41 AM A GREAT EDORIAL, I HAVE LONG BEEN A FAN OF WILLIAM HOLN, HAVE A MASSIVE CSH ON HIM, LOVE HIS ACTG, HIS CHARM AND PRENCE. SAD TO HEAR OF HIS PROBLEMS AND AWFUL ATH. STILL I SEE HIM AS A VERY SPECIAL DIVIDUAL, AND WILL ALWAYS HOLD A NDLE ?.REPLY MARSHA MOSHER NOVEMBER 24, 2022 AT 4:40 AM SO VERY SAD. I ADORED AND HIS FILMS. HE SEEMED TO BE FIGHTG MONS MOST OF HIS LIFE. TRAGIC FOR HIM AND HIS FAY.REPLY ALAN ROYLE NOVEMBER 25, 2022 AT 7:25 PM VERY TE, MARSHA. THANKYOU FOR YOUR MENT.REPLY MARTHA CLARK OCTOBER 15, 2022 AT 12:10 PM WHAT A GREAT WRE UP, THANKS SO MUCH. SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR WONRFUL SE! I’M A HUGE CLASSIC FILM BUFF AND LLECT (TOO MANY) BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT!WATCHG NETWORK RIGHT NOW, ONE OF MY FAVORE FILMS, AND HARD TO BELIEVE THIS IS WILLIAM HOLN. HE F LOOKS LIKE AN END-STAGE ALHOLIC. I’VE BEEN TOLD THAT ALHOLISM IS A PROGRSIVE DISEASE AND AS SOMEONE WHO ONCE LOVED AN ALHOLIC, ’S TE. UNLS THEY GET HELP, THEY DON’T GET BETTER, JT WORSE. ?FEEL BAD FOR STEPHANIE POWERS AND ALL THE RT OF THE WOMEN WHO LOVED HIM.REPLY ALAN ROYLE OCTOBER 16, 2022 AT 4:01 PM I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED STEPHANIE POWERS, MARTHA. SADLY, IS THE LOT OF SOME PEOPLE TO FALL LOVE WH THE WRONG MEN OR WOMENREPLY MARSHA MOSHER JANUARY 2, 2023 AT 3:16 AM AMEN TO THAT ?REPLY DEBORAH DECEMBER 17, 2021 AT 2:45 PM VERY SAD TO READ THIS ABOUT SUCH A GREAT ACTOR. TOO BAD NO ONE ULD SAVE HIM OM HIMSELF. WILR WAS BE KILLED BY A BOTTLE OF VODKA. VERY LOY FAOUT. THANK YOU FOR THIS WELL WRTEN ARTIL.REPLY ALAN ROYLE DECEMBER 17, 2021 AT 5:13 PM I MT SAY, DEBORAH, I WAS A HUGE HOLN FAN. I PECIALLY LIKED HIM ‘THE BRIDG AT TOKO-RI’ AND THE WTERN ‘ESPE FROM FORT BRAVO’. THANKYOU FOR YOUR KD WORDS.REPLY CRAIG DECEMBER 20, 2021 AT 11:23 AM ELEANOR PARKER WAS FEATURED ESPE FROM FORT BRAVO. SHE ALONE WAS REASON ENOUGH TO WATCH .REPLY ALAN ROYLE DECEMBER 21, 2021 AT 10:29 AM ABSOLUTELY, CRAIG. I ADORED HER EVERYTHG SHE EVER DID, PECIALLY OPPOSE HER THEN BOYIEND ROBERT TAYLOR ‘MANY RIVERS TO CROSS’, AND OPPOSE HTON ‘THE NAKED JUNGLE’. OF ALL THE DUMB SCENARS I HAVE WNSED MOVI, CHUCK ORRG A MAIL ORR BRI AND GETTG STUNNG ELEANOR TURN UP, ONLY TO REJECT HER OUT OF HAND BEE SHE WAS NOT A VIRG, TAK THE KE!REPLY RIRDO C TOYE AUGT 28, 2021 AT 5:13 AM WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT WILLIAM HOLN!REPLY ALAN ROYLE AUGT 28, 2021 AT 9:21 AM THANKYOU, RIRDO. REGARDLS OF HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS HE WAS A MOST CHARISMATIC ACTOR WHOSE PERFORMANC I NTUE TO RE-ENJOY.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. 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(1) ALL TOPICSTAGSDREY HEPBURN (33) AVA GARDNER (35) BARBARA STANWYCK (27) BETTE DAVIS (43) BG CROSBY (28) BURT LANSTER (34) RY GRANT (44) CHARLTON HTON (27) CLARK GABLE (62) BORAH KERR (27) ELIZABETH TAYLOR (33) ELVIS PRLEY (33) ERROL FLYNN (45) ANK SATRA (56) GARY OPER (45) GONE WH THE WD (29) GRACE KELLY (39) GREGORY PECK (30) HOWARD HUGH (33) HUMPHREY BOGART (28) GRID BERGMAN (30) JAM STEWART (40) JOAN CRAWFORD (50) JOHN WAYNE (47) JUDY GARLAND (32) LANA TURNER (40) LRENCE OLIVIER (32) MARILYN MONROE (65) MARLON BRANDO (43) MICHAEL E (28) MICKEY ROONEY (32) NATALIE WOOD (28) PL NEWMAN (31) PETER LAWFORD (26) RICHARD BURTON (29) RA HAYWORTH (26) ROBERT MCHUM (41) ROBERT TAYLOR (27) ROCK HUDSON (32) RONALD REAGAN (32) SEAN NNERY (41) SHIRLEY TEMPLE (32) SPENCER TRACY (39) TONY CURTIS (29) WILLIAM HOLN (28)RECENT COMMENTSNARELLE ROSE COX ON WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOVAVA PTMAN ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT11.CAROL BELL ON STEVE MCQUEEN – NOT A NICE GUY.SPENCER VERE ON RA HAYWORTH – A TRAGIC REPEAT OFFENR?JOHN MANCO ON JENNIFER O’NEILL AND ‘THE SUMMER OF ’42’.VOLENA CICHSKI ON GAY/BISEXUAL ACTORS OLD TV SERI ( PT 1 )CRAIG ON F TROOP (1965-7)KATHLEEN ON ANTHONY QUN – A HYPOCRE OR JT A PRODUCT OF HIS TIM?CRAIG ON KATE, BETTE & GEORGEDENISE ON STANWYCK & TAYLOR – A LAVENR MARRIAGE?DAN ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT220DIANE D ON 20 ACTORS/PERFORMANCES I LEAST ENJOY WATCHINGCATMAC ON LGTTM – ‘THE ABSENT-MD PROFSOR’ & ‘SABOTR’.DAN ON LGTTM – ‘THE ABSENT-MD PROFSOR’ & ‘SABOTR’.DAN ON LGTTM – ‘THE ABSENT-MD PROFSOR’ & ‘SABOTR’.APRIL ON WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOVMICHAEL PATRICK POWERS ON RANDOM QUOTES – PT82TAMS PARKER ON TWO FOTTEN BETI.JOAN ON DARW PORTER – CAN WE BELIEVE WHAT HE WR?TERJON99 ON TOP 100 MOVI OF ALL TIMECOPYRIGHT &PY; 2023 | WORDPRS THEME BY MH THEM INSERT/ED LK
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WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOV JANUARY 23, 2016 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 19 HOLN ESPE FROM FORT BRAVO (1953)WILLIAM HOLN FEATURED A LOT OF VERY GOOD MOVI DURG HIS REER. WOMEN ADORED HIM, EVEN MEN GDGGLY NCED THAT HE WAS BOTH GGED AND CHARMG, CERTALY NO K SOP. UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS ALSO AN ALHOLIC, OM HIS TEENS UNTIL THE DAY HE DIED. HE WAS GIFTED WH TALENT, LOOKS, CHARM AND CHARISMA. HE WAS ALSO STRONG, FEARLS AND TELLIGENT, BLSED WH ALL THE QUALI THAT MOST OTHER MEN N ONLY DREAM OF. AND YET HE DRANK ALL AWAY.HOLN & STANWYCK GOLN BOYHE WAS BORN WILLIAM BEEDLE JUNR ILLOIS 1918. HIS FAY MOVED TO PASANA, CALIFORNIA WHEN HE WAS THREE, AND 16 YEARS LATER, 1937, HE WAS SIGNED BY PARAMOUNT PICTUR BEE OF HIS LOOKS ALONE. THE STUD THREW HIM TO GOLN BOY WHEN HE WAS 20 AND NOWHERE NEAR READY TO RRY A MAJOR FILM. HIS SECURY, LACK OF NFINCE, LED TO HIS NEED FOR REASSURANCE THROUGH ALHOL. NEARLY 5,000 ACTORS WENT AFTER THE PART, BUT BARBARA STANWYCK PHED HARD FOR HIM TO GET , AND SHE RRIED NSIRABLE CLOUT BACK THEN. THE STUD RELENTED AND BILL HOLN’S REER MENCED. HE AND STANWYCK HAD A TWO-YEAR ROMANCE THAT END WHEN HE MET BRENDA MARSHALL. BRENDA MARSHALL (ARDIS) & HOLNAFTER WAR SERVICE HOLN RETURNED TO HOLLYWOOD OLR AND WISER. IN 1950 HE LAND TWO PLUM ROL, ONE OPPOSE GLORIA SWANSON SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE OTHER ALONGSI THE ZANY JUDY HOLLIDAY BORN YTERDAY. THREE YEARS LATER HE REACHED THE TOP OF THE PILE BY WNG A BT ACTOR OSR FOR STALAG 13. YET, EVEN WH ALL THIS SUCCS AT HIS FEET HE WAS, BY THEN, HOPELSLY ADDICTED TO BOOZE. HIS WIFE SCE 1941 WAS ACTRS BRENDA MARSHALL (KNOWN AS ARDIS TO HER FAY AND IENDS), AND SHE SOON TIRED OF HIS DNKENNS, FOR BILL HOLN WAS A NASTY, NASTY DNK. THEIR MARRIAGE FALTERED QUICKLY, BEG LTLE MORE THAN A SERI OF SEPARATNS AS HOLN TOOK LOVERS WHEREVER HE FOUND THEM AND ARDIS LED HER OWN LIFE.WH GLORIA SWANSON – SUNSET BOULEVARDAND WH JUDY HOLLIDAY BORN YTERDAYBILL AND HIS OSR FOR STALAG 13BY THE TIME FILMG HAD PLETED ON SABRA 1954, HOLN AND HIS -STAR AUDREY HEPBURN WERE MADLY LOVE. SHE WOULD LATER BREAK OFF, PARTLY BEE OF HIS ALHOLISM, BUT MALY BEE SHE DISVERED HE ULD NEVER HAVE CHILDREN. AND AUDREY SPERATELY WANTED THEM. HE LIED TO HER FOR MONTHS BEFORE FALLY ADMTG HE HAD UNRGONE A VASECTOMY A UPLE OF YEARS EARLIER. SHE END THEIR RELATNSHIP ON THE SPOT. AUDREY MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREPARED TO PUT UP WH HIS ALHOLISM, BUT THE PROSPECT OF A MARRIAGE WHOUT CHILDREN WAS UNACCEPTABLE. AND HE HAD BLATANTLY LIED TO HER. SHE ULD NO LONGER TST HIM.WH AUDREY HEPBURN SABRAALTHOUGH THE UPLE HAD BEEN EXTREMELY DISCREET ABOUT THEIR ROMANCE, A CREW MEMBER ON THE SET OF SABRA HAD WALKED TO HOLN’S DRSG ROOM WHOUT KNOCKG ON ONE OCSN, AND UGHT THEM AN ‘TIMATE MOMENT’. SOON AFTERWARDS, BILL TOOK AUDREY HOME TO MEET ARDIS. IN FACT, HE ALWAYS BROUGHT HIS GIRLIENDS HOME TO MEET HER. IT WAS THAT KD OF MARRIAGE. ARDIS IMMEDIATELY REALIZED THAT THIS PARTICULAR GIRLIEND WAS DIFFERENT TO THE RT. THIS ONE HER HBAND REALLY RED FOR. AUDREY WAS NICENS AND CLASS PERSONIFIED. ARDIS TOLD HER HBAND TO END , BUT AUDREY SOON DID THAT OF HER OWN ACRD. SHE MET MEL FERRER AND THEN PARAMOUNT STEPPED .AUDREY MARRI MEL FERRERDPE THEIR DISCRETN, BILL AND AUDREY WERE SOON FOUND OUT BY PARAMOUNT. WHEN AUDREY REBOUND TO MEL FERRER (WHO WANTED KIDS AS MUCH AS SHE DID), THE STUD SISTED THAT THEIR ENGAGEMENT BE ANNOUNCED TO THE MEDIA THE PRENCE OF HOLN AND HIS WIFE THEIR HOME. MEDIA SPICNS NEED TO BE PUT TO RT. IT WAS DULY DONE. AUDREY ALSO DATED JFK BEFORE HE WAS MARRIED. WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE TIMATE IS UNKNOWN, BUT GIVEN HIS TRACK RERD, THAT IS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE. THEN AGA, THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS VERY BRIEF, SO MAYBE AUDREY STOOD HER GROUND. EHER WAY, THEY MT HAVE REMAED IENDS BEE THE YEAR AFTER MARILYN MONROE SANG ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ TO HIM WAS AUDREY’S TURN TO DO SO, WHICH SHE DID, AT WHAT WOULD BE HIS LAST BIRTHDAY.HER NDUCT DURG WORLD WAR TWO HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED. SHE OCSNALLY LIVERED MSAG FOR THE RISTANCE. IN FACT, A GREAT MANY DUTCH CHILDREN WERE ED FOR THIS BEE THE OCCUPYG GERMANS DID NOT SEARCH THEM. SHE ALSO WORKED AS A NURSE TENDG WOUND BRISH SOLDIERS DURG THE FIGHTG ARNHEM. WHAT IS LS KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC IS THAT BOTH HER PARENTS WERE NAZI SYMPATHIZERS! HER MOTHER ATTEND AT LEAST ONE NUREMBERG RALLY, AND EVEN WROTE A GLOWG REPORT ABOUT THE FASCIST MAGAZE BLACKSHIRT. AUDREY’S FATHER, ALSO A MEMBER OF THE FASCIST PARTY, WAS ‘TAED’ ON ORRS OF THE HOE OF COMMONS FOR THE DURATN OF THE WAR. AUDREY NEVER EMBRACED HER PARENTS’ BELIEFS FOR A MOMENT.BILL HOLN & GRACE KELLYSHELLEY WTERSJACKIE KENNEDYHOLN WENT ON TO OTHER AFFAIRS, HIS ALHOLISM G EACH TURN. IN THE SAME YEAR SABRA WAS RELEASED HE EMBARKED UPON A SHORT BUT TORRID AFFAIR WH HIS -STAR THE BRIDG AT TOKO-RI, THE STUNNG MAN-EATER GRACE KELLY. HE AND SHELLEY WTERS HAD AN TERTG ARRANGEMENT. ONCE A YEAR THEY WOULD MEET AT A HOTEL FOR A NIGHT OF PASSN, THEN GO THEIR OWN WAY THE FRENCH BETY CAPUCE WAS WH HIM THE SIXTI FOR A UPLE OF YEARS. EVEN JACKIE KENNEDY WARMED HIS BED FOR A WHILE.WH ANOTHER LOVER, CAPUCEIN 1966, HE WAS DNK-DRIVG TNY, ITALY WHEN HE CRASHED HIS VEHICLE TO ANOTHER, KILLG THE DRIVER. HE WAS GIVEN A SHAMEFULLY AQUATE EIGHT-MONTH SPEND SENTENCE. IT WAS NOTHG MORE THAN A SLAP ON THE WRIST, BUT PROVED TO BE THE LAST STRAW FOR ARDIS, HIS WIFE. (BRENDA MARSHALL ALWAYS PREFERRED TO BE LLED BY HER REAL CHRISTIAN NAME). SHE HAD NOTHG MORE TO DO WH HIM AND THEY OFFICIALLY DIVORCED 1971.HIS LAST AFFAIR PROVED TO BE THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE. IT WAS WH THE FORMER STAR OF HART TO HART, THE GEO STEFANIE POWERS. SHE WAS A SMART, NO NONSENSE WOMAN, SEEMGLY FAR HAPPIER LOOKG AFTER ANIMALS ON HOLN’S KENYAN RANCH, THAN ALG WH THE PHONY WORLD OF HOLLYWOOD HOOPLA. THEIR RELATNSHIP LASTED TEN YEARS UNTIL 1979. WHEN THEY MET, SHE WAS 32 AND HE 56.HIS LAST LOVE STEFANIE POWERSSOON AFTER THEY BEGAN SEEG ONE ANOTHER STEFANIE STOPPED TO SEE HOLN PALM SPRGS AND FOUND HIM NVULSG OM ALHOL POISONG. HE ULD STOP DRKG WHEN HE WAS WH HER, BUT HIS IENDS LED HIM ASTRAY WHENEVER THEY WERE APART. BILL AND STEFANIE SHARED A LOVE FOR AI AND HUNTG, ALTHOUGH HOLN’S HUNTG DAYS END THE DAY HE SHOT AN ANTELOPE HER PRENCE. HE LOOKED DOWN AT THE SLENR NECK AND LARGE EY OF HIS ‘KILL’, AND WAS VISIBLY SHAKEN. ‘OH, MY GOD’, HE EXCLAIMED. ‘I’VE JT SHOT AUDREY HEPBURN.’ HE NEVER HUNTED AGA. STEFANIE LEARNED LATER OF HIS AFFAIR WH MISS HEPBURN.BY 1979 WAS OVER. HOLN’S DRKG HAD BEE PROGRSIVELY WORSE, AND STEFANIE ULD NO LONGER NTUE PUTTG UP WH HIS ERRATIC, DANGERO BEHAVUR. TWO YEARS LATER SHE HEARD ON THE RAD THAT HE HAD TRIPPED OVER WHILE DNK HIS HOTEL ROOM AND STCK HIS HEAD ON A TABLE, SEVERG AN ARTERY. HE BLED TO ATH ON THE FLOOR, AND LAY HIS ROOM UNTIL DISVERED FOUR DAYS LATER. ‘I DIDN’T PE WELL AT ALL’, STEFANIE RELLED. ‘I WAS MOURNG FOR AG.’DIRECTOR BILLY WILR, A LONG-TIME ADMIRER OF HOLN, ULD NOT BELIEVE HE HAD DIED SUCH A POTLS, MUNDANE WAY. ‘I WOULD HAVE ASSUMED THAT HE HAD BEEN GORED BY A WATER BUFFALO KENYA’, HE SAID.’ THAT HE HAD DIED A PLANE CRASH APPROACHG HONG KONG, THAT A CRAZED JEALO WOMAN HAD SHOT HIM, AND HE DROWNED A SWIMMG POOL. BUT TO BE KILLED BY A BOTTLE OF VODKA AND A NIGHT TABLE – WHAT A LOY FA-OUT OF A GREAT GUY!’DREY HEPBURNBARBARA STANWYCKBILLY WILRBORN YTERDAYBRENDA MARSHALLPUCEPE OM FORT BRAVOGLORIA SWANSONGOLN BOYGRACE KELLYHART TO HARTJACKIE KENNEDYJUDY HOLLIDAYMEL FERRERSHELLY WTERSSTALAG 13STEFANIE POWERSSUNSET BOULEVARDTHE BRIDG AT TOKO-RNY R CRASHWILLIAM HOLN PREVGOOD GUYS & GALS (PT 1) NEXTOMAR SHARIF -EGYPT’S SUPERSTAR. 19 COMMENTS NARELLE ROSE COX JULY 30, 2023 AT 9:39 AM BILL HOLN WAS ONE OF MY FAVOURE ACTORS. HE ALWAYS GAVE STRONG, QUALY PERFORMANC. SO MANY MEMORABLE AND FABULO PERFORMANC, BUT BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI IS RIGHT UP THERE FOR ME. THE DANCE SEQUENCE PIIC WH KIM NOVAK, WAS ONE OF THE MOST SENSUAL DANC SCEN I HAVE EVER WATCHED, BRILLIANT. I LOVED ALL HIS MOVI. BETIFUL TO LOOK AT WH THAT EP GEO SOUNDG VOICE, JT LOVED HIM. WILDLIFE NSERVATN WAS ONE OF HIS PASSNS AND HE CERTALY LEFT HIS MARK. HE HAD HIS MONS AND LEFT WAY TO SOON, BUT I LIKE TO REMEMBER BY THE POSIVE ATTRIBUT BILL HAD AND THE MARVELO BODY OF WORK HE LEFT BEHD. RIP BILL, MISSED BUT NOT FOTTEN. XREPLY APRIL JULY 7, 2023 AT 12:46 PM THANK YOU FOR THIS ARTICLE. VERY TERTG AND SAD TO LEARN OF WILLIAM HOLR’S STGGL AND CHALLENGG LIFE OF THE WONRFUL ACTOR, WILLIAM HOLN. I’M A HUGE CLASSIC MOVIE BUFF AND APPRECIATE YOUR WEBSE VERY MUCH!REPLY RICK APRIL 21, 2023 AT 4:52 AM HE IMPRSED ME AS A ‘MAN’S MAN’ BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI AND I JT FISHED WATCHG THE EARTHLG, HIS NEXT-TO-LAST FILM. A GREAT ACTOR WHO WAS TORTURED APPARENTLY, LIFE N BE SO STRANGE.REPLY ALAN ROYLE APRIL 26, 2023 AT 8:00 PM I THOUGHT HE WAS OUTSTANDG A WTERN TLED ‘ESPE OM FORT BRAVO’ THE FIFTI. RICK. A NO-NONSENSE ACTOR.REPLY NIGEL MARCH 15, 2023 AT 6:24 AM JT WATCHG THE MOVIE PIIC HE SURE WAS A VERY HANDSOME CHAP, WHAT A WAY TO END A GREAT ACTORS LIFE.REPLY RUTH MAY 14, 2023 AT 3:02 AM WATCHG PIIC NOW. LOVE THE FAL SCEN. HE LOOKED OLR THAN HIS AGE–PROBABLY DUE TO ALHOL AND FAST LIVG (WAS 37 AND LOOKED 42).REPLY MARSHA MOSHER MAY 14, 2023 AT 5:17 AM I’VE YET TO WATCH ’S ON MY LIST. LOVED THAT MAN.REPLY DOROTHY MART JANUARY 2, 2023 AT 2:41 AM A GREAT EDORIAL, I HAVE LONG BEEN A FAN OF WILLIAM HOLN, HAVE A MASSIVE CSH ON HIM, LOVE HIS ACTG, HIS CHARM AND PRENCE. SAD TO HEAR OF HIS PROBLEMS AND AWFUL ATH. STILL I SEE HIM AS A VERY SPECIAL DIVIDUAL, AND WILL ALWAYS HOLD A NDLE ?.REPLY MARSHA MOSHER NOVEMBER 24, 2022 AT 4:40 AM SO VERY SAD. I ADORED AND HIS FILMS. HE SEEMED TO BE FIGHTG MONS MOST OF HIS LIFE. TRAGIC FOR HIM AND HIS FAY.REPLY ALAN ROYLE NOVEMBER 25, 2022 AT 7:25 PM VERY TE, MARSHA. THANKYOU FOR YOUR MENT.REPLY MARTHA CLARK OCTOBER 15, 2022 AT 12:10 PM WHAT A GREAT WRE UP, THANKS SO MUCH. SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR WONRFUL SE! I’M A HUGE CLASSIC FILM BUFF AND LLECT (TOO MANY) BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT!WATCHG NETWORK RIGHT NOW, ONE OF MY FAVORE FILMS, AND HARD TO BELIEVE THIS IS WILLIAM HOLN. HE F LOOKS LIKE AN END-STAGE ALHOLIC. I’VE BEEN TOLD THAT ALHOLISM IS A PROGRSIVE DISEASE AND AS SOMEONE WHO ONCE LOVED AN ALHOLIC, ’S TE. UNLS THEY GET HELP, THEY DON’T GET BETTER, JT WORSE. ?FEEL BAD FOR STEPHANIE POWERS AND ALL THE RT OF THE WOMEN WHO LOVED HIM.REPLY ALAN ROYLE OCTOBER 16, 2022 AT 4:01 PM I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED STEPHANIE POWERS, MARTHA. SADLY, IS THE LOT OF SOME PEOPLE TO FALL LOVE WH THE WRONG MEN OR WOMENREPLY MARSHA MOSHER JANUARY 2, 2023 AT 3:16 AM AMEN TO THAT ?REPLY DEBORAH DECEMBER 17, 2021 AT 2:45 PM VERY SAD TO READ THIS ABOUT SUCH A GREAT ACTOR. TOO BAD NO ONE ULD SAVE HIM OM HIMSELF. WILR WAS BE KILLED BY A BOTTLE OF VODKA. VERY LOY FAOUT. THANK YOU FOR THIS WELL WRTEN ARTIL.REPLY ALAN ROYLE DECEMBER 17, 2021 AT 5:13 PM I MT SAY, DEBORAH, I WAS A HUGE HOLN FAN. I PECIALLY LIKED HIM ‘THE BRIDG AT TOKO-RI’ AND THE WTERN ‘ESPE FROM FORT BRAVO’. THANKYOU FOR YOUR KD WORDS.REPLY CRAIG DECEMBER 20, 2021 AT 11:23 AM ELEANOR PARKER WAS FEATURED ESPE FROM FORT BRAVO. SHE ALONE WAS REASON ENOUGH TO WATCH .REPLY ALAN ROYLE DECEMBER 21, 2021 AT 10:29 AM ABSOLUTELY, CRAIG. I ADORED HER EVERYTHG SHE EVER DID, PECIALLY OPPOSE HER THEN BOYIEND ROBERT TAYLOR ‘MANY RIVERS TO CROSS’, AND OPPOSE HTON ‘THE NAKED JUNGLE’. OF ALL THE DUMB SCENARS I HAVE WNSED MOVI, CHUCK ORRG A MAIL ORR BRI AND GETTG STUNNG ELEANOR TURN UP, ONLY TO REJECT HER OUT OF HAND BEE SHE WAS NOT A VIRG, TAK THE KE!REPLY RIRDO C TOYE AUGT 28, 2021 AT 5:13 AM WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT WILLIAM HOLN!REPLY ALAN ROYLE AUGT 28, 2021 AT 9:21 AM THANKYOU, RIRDO. REGARDLS OF HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS HE WAS A MOST CHARISMATIC ACTOR WHOSE PERFORMANC I NTUE TO RE-ENJOY.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. 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Bowers was soon lnched on a reer as a prostute and purveyor of sexual servic were an open secret Hollywood, particularly among closeted gay men and lbians, who were pelled by social mor and harsh publicy to keep their romantic liv unr wraps.
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WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
“He was the last lk to an almost fotten era of gay Hollywood and gay Ameri, ” said Tyrner, whose most recent documentary is “Where’s My Roy Cohn?
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