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| About Carol Hollenbeck |
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Carol Hollenbeck was born in Newburgh, N.Y., just sixty miles from New York city. There, she had the honor of winning several local beauty pageants.
She traveled to Hollywood, California in the nineteen sixties and changed her last name to Holland, in those days it seemed simpler for the theatre
marquee.
In Hollywood, she was truly discovered walking down that famous street of Sunset Blvd for a television commercal. That first week, she
filmed a candy commercial, where she played the role of Miss Vanilla for Sky Bar candy . Soon after, she was picked to be a Las Vegas Show girl
on the stage at the famous Riveria Hotel in the show ''IRMA LADOUCHE , with the hot sixties dancing star Miss Juliet Prowess.
Upon her return to Hollywoodland, she acted in several low budget teeney bopper films, where she wore her bikini well. She played a featured role in a teen age film
titled "Eden Cried", to which her hometown of Newburgh beckoned her to do her movie premier there. The Producers flew her home in movie star
style to a wonderful and exciting event. She was greeted with open arms and good reviews. Then the hard knocks began. Soon after her return
to Hollywood, she decided to move back east. When asked while growing up, " what she wanted to be when she grew up,"? she always replied
"I want to be a movie star". Well times had changed and so had she. She was determined to become a good actress, and the only place to do
that was New york city. She began to study drama at one of the famous schools and started to get bit roles on T.V. soap operas. and background
work in films. One of her favorite film shoots was working on the famous classic comedy of the nineteen eighties "TOOTSIE". In that film she
plays an autograph hound who chases the actress Jessica Lange down the street. She has the distinction of having her name as the last
credit on that film.
Several off off broadway roles followed, with good reviews and publicity in several local t.v. shows,. She even became a
movie critic for a t.v. cable show in the nineteen nineties. After joining a womens ensemble group, she was tired of emoting on the stage
and decided to take pen in hand instead. She began to write , since then she has had several of her plays produced off bway and was
nominated three times in the Samuel French One Act Play contest. 'FUNKY FIFITES" in 1995, THE LIFTERS " in 1999, and UPSTATE
,MADNESS" in 2004. Since then her play " THE LIFTERS ' was turned into a short film. Her other credits include the screenplay
'UPSTATE MOURNING", written by her and Monteserret Mendez.
Her novel ' TRUE BLONDES, is a work of fiction, but it sure is fun to
read. (check her review page) True blondes is based on some of the true tales of what it means to be a blonde in this
society. Blondes are set up to think they are special, there is a fasanation about them, which is hard to live up too. So, the question
remains ARE TRUE BLONDES SPECIAL.? YOU HAVE TO READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT. |
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