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Judy Holliday was an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter.

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entertainment · American actress, singer (1921–1965) · singer · jazz musician · stage actor · film actor · actor · also Judy Holliday, Holliday

Born 21 June 1921 · Died 7 June 1965 · Q253298

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Jun 1957Award
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1957).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday (1951).
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1992· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1992Documented record76% confidence

Released album “Trouble Is a Man”.

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1991· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1991Documented record76% confidence

Released album “Holliday With Mulligan”.

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1989· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1989Documented record76% confidence

Released album “Bells Are Ringing (Original Soundtrack album)”.

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1965· 2 entries

Jun 7, 1965Documented record66% confidence

At Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital from metastatic breast cancer

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Jun 7, 1965Documented record86% confidence

Died 1965-06-07.

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1960· 1 entry

1960Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles

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1957· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1957Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1957).

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1957Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

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1952· 1 entry

1952Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Holliday was called to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to answer claims she was associated with communism

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1951· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1951Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday (1951).

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1950· 1 entry

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Holliday's name appeared on a list of 151 alleged pro-communist artists in the publication Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and TV

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1948· 1 entry

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Holliday married clarinetist David Oppenheim, later a classical music and television producer, and academic

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1946· 1 entry

1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Returned to Broadway as the scatterbrained Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday

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1945· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1945Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Theatre World Award (1945).

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Mar 20, 1945Documented record66% confidence

At the Belasco Theatre in Kiss Them for Me, and was one of the recipients that year of the Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female actor

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1940· 1 entry

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The Revuers released a 78-rpm album entitled Night Life in New York

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1938· 1 entry

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As part of a nightclub act called The Revuers, whose other members were Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Alvin Hammer, John Frank and Esther Cohen

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1921· 1 entry

Jun 21, 1921Documented record86% confidence

Born 1921-06-21.

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