1. Cheryl Lynn Holdridge was an American actress, best known as an original cast member of The Mickey Mouse Club.
18 Facts About Cheryl Holdridge
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Cheryl Holdridge adopted Cheryl in 1953 and gave her his surname.
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Cheryl Holdridge's stepbrother was diplomat John H Holdridge, who served as US Ambassador to Singapore and Indonesia.
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Cheryl Holdridge first performed professionally at the age of nine in the New York City Ballet's version of The Nutcracker in Los Angeles.
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Cheryl Holdridge auditioned for Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club in the spring of 1956, and was hired for the show's second season.
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Cheryl Holdridge 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, Julie Foster.
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Cheryl Holdridge reprised her role as Julie Foster in two guest appearances in The New Leave It to Beaver in 1985 and 1987.
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Cheryl Holdridge was screen tested for a role in Spencer's Mountain that would eventually go to Mimsy Farmer.
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Cheryl Holdridge retired from acting in 1964 to marry race car driver Lance Reventlow, to whom she was wed until his death in 1972.
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Cheryl Holdridge was offered a movie contract from Universal Studios but declined after Reventlow proposed.
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Cheryl Holdridge watched an installment of Poor Little Rich Girl, based on Hutton, with its producer Lester Persky at his Bel Air home.
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Cheryl Holdridge was cast in televised documentary specials about Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton, and appeared in a special feature interview for a Disney DVD.
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In May 1960, Cheryl Holdridge went on a live tour to Australia with other former Mouseketeers.
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The bulk of Reventlow's estate went to Cheryl Holdridge, which was estimated around $50 million.
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Between her first two marriages it was reported Cheryl Holdridge dated film producers Robert Cohn and Andrew Wald, and author Michael Crichton.
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Cheryl Holdridge pledged their Aspen home to pay for his $500,000 bond.
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Cheryl Holdridge maintained a second home in Aspen and lived there for six months out of the year from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
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Cheryl Holdridge died at her Santa Monica home on January 6,2009, from lung cancer, aged 64.