Holliday Family History & Genealogy

Ava Ann (Thompson) Holliday of Bristow, Creek County, Oklahoma was born on October 17, 1913 in Missouri United States, and died at age 73 years old on May 30, 1987 in Stroud, Lincoln County, OK. Ava Holliday was buried at Stroud Cemetery in Stroud.

Farmer J Holliday of Bristow, Creek County, Oklahoma was born on February 24, 1909 in Caney, Morgan County, Kentucky United States, and died at age 75 years old on March 10, 1984 in Bristow, Creek County, OK. Farmer Holliday was buried at Stroud Cemetery in Stroud, Lincoln County.

Judy Holliday’s son recalls brief life, bright career of tragic Oscar, and Tony winner. BY Steve Rothaus Stage and film star Judy Holliday with her young son, Jonathan Oppenheim, in a family photograph from the late 1950s. (posted) PHOTO PROVIDED BY JONATHAN OPPENHEIM More than a half-century after the tragic death of Oscar- and Tony-winning movie and Broadway star Judy Holliday, the high-definition Blu-ray release of her final film, “Bells Are Ringing,” has come just in time. Holliday — a singing actress equally adept at comedy and drama — was one of America’s biggest stars when diagnosed with cancer in her late 30s. She died at 43 in 1965. “She had a very special quality,” says Holliday’s only child, documentary film editor Jonathan Oppenheim. “She had a vulnerability and she also played characters who were in some way discovering themselves. She embodied that very beautifully. She had soul. The material in “Bells Are Ringing” — it’s not a great musical, I don’t think — but you can make anything soulful if you have soul.” The public’s memory of Holliday has grown hazy. Her canon is relatively small, including five Broadway shows. She is best known for playing not-so-dumb blonde Billie Dawn in Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” (1946), and meddling telephone answering service attendant Ella Peterson in “Bells Are Ringing,” the Jerome Robbins-Bob Fosse smash for which Holliday won the 1957 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical. In that show, she introduced two standards by Jule Styne and lifetime friends Betty Comden and Adolph Green: “Just in Time” and “The Party’s Over.” In Hollywood, Holliday had fewer than 10 starring film roles, including her Oscar-winning turn in 1950’s adaptation of “Born Yesterday,” directed by George Cukor. Paul Douglas and Judy Holliday, appear in a scene from the play ‘Born Yesterday,’ by Garson Kanin, which had its premiere at the Lyceum Theater in New York, Feb. 4, 1946. Holliday recreated the role in the 1950 film version and won a Best Actress Oscar. (posted) “The film is actually very political,” says Oppenheim, who recently stumbled upon “Born Yesterday” while flipping cable channels. “The script is very political. It’s about integrity and corruption and sticking to the Constitution. Actually, it was amazingly resonant in a way that it hasn’t been for me ever, ever, in this period. I was actually quite taken with the film in a way that I hadn’t been before because of what’s going on in our country.” Holliday’s Academy Award win at age 29 is legendary: She beat Bette Davis and Anne Baxter in “All About Eve,” Eleanor Parker in “Caged,” and Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard.” Oppenheim still keeps his mother’s Oscar and Tony on a hallway shelf in his Manhattan apartment. “They’re very important to me, but I don’t display them prominently,” he says. Holliday’s final movie, the 1960 film version of “Bells Are Ringing,” directed by Vincente Minnelli and co-starring Dean Martin, has just been released on Blu-ray (Warner Archive, $22). She was born Judith Tuvim on June 21, 1921, in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens, New York. Her earliest work included a stint with The Revuers, an early ’40s Manhattan troupe including composer-performers Leonard Bernstein, Comden and Green. Holliday’s stage name was a derivation of her birth name: Yamim Tovim is Hebrew for Jewish holidays. She didn’t come from an observant household, though. “Absolutely not;” her son says. About the time Holliday won the Oscar, the FBI investigated her as a suspected communist. Pregnant with Oppenheim in 1952, she testified before a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee probing subversives. “She had problems because she signed petitions in the ’40s and ’30s. She was brought before a committee, but I think that she was like a Stevenson Democrat. She loved Stevenson and suffered through Eisenhower,” Oppenheim says. “Her politics were sort of ‘humane and humanitarian,’ not extreme, and definitely in a liberal vein. The socialist thing was her father, that world. She came out of the socialist world and she came out of the Roosevelt ’30s.” After the Senate investigation, Holliday — who reportedly had a genius IQ of 172 —resumed her film and stage career. Her greatest Broadway success came in 1956 with “Bells Are Ringing,” starring opposite actor Sydney Chaplin, son of Charles. Editor Jonathan Oppenheim, son of Oscar-winning movie star Judy Holliday, speaks onstage at the Awards Night Ceremony at Basin Recreation Field House during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Michael Loccisano Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival “I spent a lot of time backstage. It was my greatest pleasure just to hang out backstage,” Oppenheim recalls. “It was something around a three-year run. I would hang out with the stagehands and the actors. I enjoyed it.” Holliday was married about nine years to clarinetist and TV director David Oppenheim. They separated when Jonathan was 1 and divorced a few years later while she starred in the stage version of “Bells Are Ringing.” Jonathan Oppenheim recalls the personal conflict watching his mother perform nightly at the packed Shubert Theatre on Broadway: “I wanted her to myself,” he says. “There was a bit of a push-pull in my feelings. I was proud of her, but there was also a feeling that she was being taken away from me every night. It was a two-way street. That sort of sums up a lot of complex feelings.” In the late ’50s, Holliday became involved with jazz saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, who appears with her as a comic blind date early in the film version of “Bells Are Ringing.” The “Bells Are Ringing” original cast recording, still available, was Columbia Records’ first Broadway album recorded in stereo. Holliday also made two solo albums, “Trouble is a Man” in 1958 and “Holliday With Mulligan,” recorded in 1961 but not released by the saxophonist until 1980. “She loved to sing. She and Gerry had a musical relationship. It was very tied to music. She doesn’t have a trained voice. She doesn’t have like a Streisand [voice] — she’s not that kind of singer. She’s another note. She’s expressing something closer to speech, but is surrounded by melody,” says Oppenheim, whose film credits include “Paris Is Burning” (1990) and “Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner” (2013). “She loved songwriting. That was where her voice went and I think that she was able to use it. It’s a very appealing singing voice. I think of her as a kind of introverted singer, that she was expressing certain kinds of feelings that were part of her thought process, in a way.” The movie version of “Bells Are Ringing” would be Holliday’s final professional success. “I have memories of her filming “Bells Are Ringing,” Oppenheim says. “I was on set. She had a real hard time with the transition of that from the musical to the screen. She and Minnelli had some disagreements and that sort of depressed her. My memory of the filming was that there was a battle. Maybe not a huge battle, but a bit of a battle. It wasn’t smooth sailing.” Disaster struck shortly after. As she prepared the drama “Laurette,” based on the life of original “Glass Menagerie” star Laurette Taylor, Holliday learned she had cancer. She was treated in the early ‘60s, her condition improved and she managed to briefly return to Broadway in Mary Rodgers’ 1963 musical, “Hot Spot.” Few of today’s theater personalities have been around long enough to have seen Holliday perform live. “A Chorus Line” legend Donna McKechnie danced in her first Broadway show, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” while Holliday starred in “Hot Spot.” “I knew people who knew her and had only praise for her as a talent and person, as well,” McKechnie says. “Very much in love with Gerry Mulligan, right?” “Hot Spot” closed after 43 performances and Holliday’s cancer recurred shortly after. No one spoke about it, not even at home. “It was a primitive world. I don’t think they ever told her precisely what was wrong with her the second time she was sick,” Oppenheim says. “I think she was aware she was dying, but I don’t think she knew precisely what she was dying from.” Holliday stayed home with her son until about a month before she died of breast cancer in a New York City hospital on June 7, 1965. At age 12, Jonathan went to live with his father’s second family. Now married to psychoanalyst Josie Oppenheim, a member of the Stella Adler acting family, and the father of a 25-year-old daughter, Netalia, Oppenheim would like the public to remember this about Judy Holliday: “My mother carved her own path. She had this sort of faith in her own talent and its uniqueness. In a certain sense, that’s what I would want to convey to my daughter. The talent is very, very specific and unique. Everyone has their own very unique, very specific thing, but it’s easy to overlook it,” says Oppenheim, who is rarely asked for interviews about his mother. “She was able to be herself. Find herself. Find her talent.”

Marc Thomas Holliday of 410 South 4th Street, in Fulton, Oswego County, New York United States was born in 1974 at Oneida NY USA. Marc was baptized in 1974 at St Patrick's Church 347 Main St, in Oneida, Madison County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marc Aldasch Holliday.

William is the 7th child of Marc Aldasch Holliday and 1st child of Lindsay Pai Holliday

Lindsay Pai Holliday was born on May 31, 1987 at Schenectady NY USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lindsay Pai Holliday.

Sherry Patricia (Holliday) Pridgen of Aransas County, TX was born on September 2, 1945 at Parris Island, SC, USA in Parris Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina United States, and died at age 55 years old on March 6, 2001.

Dallas G Holliday of Jamesville, Martin County, NC was born on September 15, 1920, and died at age 86 years old on February 6, 2007.

Richard A Holliday of Bolingbrook, Will County, IL was born on October 9, 1946, and died at age 62 years old on April 19, 2009. Richard Holliday was buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Section 8 Site 1935 20953 West Hoff Road, in Elwood.

Richard L Holliday of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH was born on March 27, 1922, and died at age 75 years old on January 16, 1998.

Richard E Holliday of Rochester, Monroe County, NY was born on July 2, 1922, and died at age 81 years old on June 19, 2004.

Wesley J Holliday of Ripley, Tippah County, MS was born on December 1, 1907, and died at age 82 years old in May 1990.

Wesley T Holliday of Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia was born on April 12, 1906, and died at age 69 years old in September 1975.

Maynard W Holliday of Osceola, Saint Clair County, Missouri was born on August 31, 1904, and died at age 62 years old in October 1966.

James M Holliday of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV was born on December 22, 1926, and died at age 69 years old on November 6, 1996.

James C Holliday of Midland, Midland County, TX was born on June 26, 1927, and died at age 76 years old on September 3, 2003.

James L Holliday of Hammond, Tangipahoa County, LA was born on February 20, 1921, and died at age 73 years old on June 29, 1994.

James G Holliday of Vernon, Lamar County, AL was born on January 5, 1919, and died at age 76 years old on September 3, 1995.

James S Holliday of Jackson, Hinds County, MS was born on August 11, 1920, and died at age 77 years old on December 7, 1997.

James Alfred Holliday Sr of Memphis, Shelby County, TN was born on March 14, 1943, and died at age 58 years old on August 23, 2001. James Holliday was buried at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section Y Site 11600 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis.