Betty Lou Holland (born December 25, 1926) is an American actress.
Born in New York City, she began acting on the stage in the 1940s and appeared in some plays on Broadway.
Holland acted in a couple of television programs in the 1950s, including 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) and playing Roz Moreland in The Man in the Net (1959).
She married Robert Cordier, a Belgian-Franco-American director and poet, in January 1962 in New York. They have two children.
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can’t understand them and they don’t know me and I don’t know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”
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“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
—Jack Holland (b. 1947)