Jennifer Holt

The daughter of actor Jack Holtand his wife, Margaret Woods, she was born Elizabeth Marshall Holtin Hollywood, California . She and her brother Tim would both have careers in acting.

She made her film debut using the stage name "Jacqueline Holt" in a 1941 western starring Hopalong Cassidyand went on to make forty-seven films during the 1940s. All but eight of her roles were in western films in which she appeared opposite cowboy stars such as Lash LaRue and Johnny Mack Brown .

Holt made her final film in 1949 then in 1950 co-hosted a television show called "Panhandle Pete and Jennifer" which ran for one season. During the remainder of the 1950s she made occasional guest appearances on television western series such as " The Gabby Hayes Show " and "Tales of Wells Fargo". Although the popularity of western films had faded by the mid 1950s, during the 1970s western film festival s became popular with fans of the genre and she occasionally participated as a guest star.

Jennifer Holt was married several times, living for a while in Mexico and was in Dorset in England at the time or her death in 1997.