Betty Lou Holland was born in New York City on December 26, 1925. She began acting on the
stage in the 1940s and appeared on
Broadway, in
Call Me Mister,
Annie Get Your Gun, and ''
The Devil's Disciple''. In
The Member of the Wedding, the actress was in her 20s when she played a 12 year old. She continued to act on stage through the 1950s, playing a leading role in
Six Characters in Search of an Author, and the
George Bernard Shaw play, ''
The Devil's Disciple''. Holland acted in
television programs in the 1950s. Holland was one of the principal roles of the NBC television adaptation of
The Devil and Daniel Webster. Holland played in the NBC-television special,
Johnny Belinda in 1958. She also appeared in a TV version of
Daphne Du Maurier's
The Birds on the CBS series
Danger on May 31, 1955. In 1958 she portrayed a secretary recovering from mental illness in the TV drama series
Decoy. 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). In
The Goddess, Holland recalled that the religious conversion scene, which was long, was applauded by the Hollywood crew, not for the acting, but because all actors had remembered their lines. == Personal life ==