Martha Holliday

Martha Holliday (born Harriette Olson

In 1944, Holliday signed a contract with RKO Pictures. RKO changed her name to Martha Holliday. Hoping to establish herself as an actress, she studied acting under Lillian Albertson. Instead, she was again assigned to teach dance routines to others. After the film was released, one reviewer wrote, "While Martha Holliday has nimble toes and a pretty face, her English accent is fairly unusual." It proved to be her only featured role.

Holliday appeared as a pin-up girl in Yank, the Army Weekly magazine in December 1945. As U.S. senator Joseph O'Mahoney read a passage from the publication on the Senate floor, the image of the reverse page (Holliday's pin-up photograph) was displayed to the members of the Senate and passed from hand to hand. Columnist Harold Heffernan wrote, "The languorously graceful pose of Martha Holliday lazily sunning herself beside a swimming pool created a near-panic in the United States Senate."

Holliday also had smaller, uncredited roles in The Enchanted Cottage (1945), as the hat check girl in The Flame (1947), as Trudy Marsh in I, Jane Doe (1948), and as Pearl in Lulu Belle (1948).

Death Holliday retired from acting in 1948. She died in 1970 at age 48 in Los Angeles. She is interred in Glen Haven Memorial Park in Sylmar, Los Angeles.

Filmography Year Film Role Notes 1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars Dancer (uncredited) 1945 The Enchanted Cottage Bit Role (uncredited) 1945 George White's Scandals Jill Martin 1947 The Flame Hat Check Girl (uncredited) 1948 I, Jane Doe Trudy Marsh (uncredited) 1948 Lulu Belle Pearl (uncredited)