Cheryl Lynn Holdridge (née Phelps; June 20, 1944 – January 6, 2009)[1] was an American actress, best known as an original cast member of The Mickey Mouse Club.
[citation needed] Holdridge first performed professionally at the age of nine in the New York City Ballet's version of The Nutcracker in Los Angeles.
[citation needed] She auditioned for Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club in the spring of 1956, and was hired for the show's second season.
[5] She was cast in two episodes of Leave It to Beaver in 1959 as Gloria Cusick; she later played an occasional, recurring role as Wally Cleaver's girlfriend,[4] Julie Foster.
[7] Holdridge retired from acting in 1964 to marry race car driver Lance Reventlow, to whom she was wed until his death in 1972.
She watched an installment of Poor Little Rich Girl, based on Hutton, with its producer Lester Persky at his Bel Air home.
After the death of her third husband, Holdridge made a cameo appearance in the 2000 feature film, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.
[11] Prior to her first marriage, Holdridge had dated Elvis Presley, Tony Dow, Ricky Nelson, Tim Considine, Fabian Forte, Bobby Rydell, Don Grady, Tommy Kirk,[12] and Michael Anderson Jr.[13] Holdridge's first marriage, on November 8, 1964, was to sportsman and playboy Lance Reventlow,[14] only child of Barbara Hutton, heir to the Woolworth fortune.
You married and stayed home.”[15] It was reported that towards the end of their marriage the couple were estranged and met only occasionally,[16] with Holdridge contemplating divorce.
According to a sealed indictment, Skarda put up $100,000 in 1983 to begin importing thousands of pounds of marijuana from Colombia to the United States.