Holland, Betty Lou, 1931-

Betty Lou Holland was born in New York City, she began acting on the stage in the 1940s and appeared on Broadway. She was in Call Me Mister, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Devil's Disciple. In The Member of the Wedding, the actress was in her 20s when she played a 12 year old. She continued to act on stage through the 1950s, playing a leading role in Six Characters in Search of an Author, and the George Bernard Shaw play, The Devil's Disciple. Holland acted in television programs in the 1950s. Holland was one of the principal roles of the NBC television adaptation of The Devil and Daniel Webster. Holland played in the NBC-television special, Johnny Belinda in 1958. She also appeared in a TV version of Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds on the CBS series Danger on May 31, 1955. She was in only two motion pictures, playing the role of Mrs. Faulkner, mother of Kim Stanley's character, in The Goddess (1958)[7] and playing Roz Moreland in The Man in the Net (1959). In The Goddess, Holland recalls that the religious conversion scene, which was long, was applauded by the Hollywood crew, not for the acting, but because all actors had remembered their lines. Holland married Robert Cordier, a Belgian-Franco-American director and poet, in January 1962 in New York. They have two children.