Contribution
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jack Holt has a star figure on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6313-½ Hollywood Blvd. Holt was the visual inspiration for Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" and Al Capp's "Fearless Fosdick."
Margaret Mitchell, when discussing the movie casting of her character Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939) -- a process in which she had no say—- expressed a preference for Jack Holt as Butler, because her personal favorite, Charles Boyer, had a French accent.
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