Gloria Holden

Gloria Anna Holden (September 5, 1903 – March 22, 1991) was a British-born American film actress, best known for her role as Dracula's Daughter.

[3][better source needed] She attended school in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and later studied at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

[4] In her early teens, living in suburban Philadelphia (Gladwyne), she took voice lessons from Philip Warren Cook and was a church chorister in Ardmore and, later, Overbrook.

[6] She was an understudy for Brass Ankle (1931), had a bit part in The Desert Song (1926),[4] and succeeded Lilly Cahill in As Husbands Go at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway, in June 1931.

[citation needed] Holden was active in stock theater in Cincinnati, Ohio; Princeton, New Jersey; and Scarborough, New York.

[citation needed] In July 1937, Holden was assigned to play the character of Marian Morgan in The Man Without a Country (1937).

The following year, she gave birth to a son, Lawrence Reynolds, who became actor Glen Corbett, whose children, Laurie and Christopher Holden, adopted their paternal grandmother's maiden name professionally.