Although the popularity of Western films had faded by the mid-1950s, during the 1970s Western film festivals became popular with fans of the genre and she occasionally participated as a guest.[6][7]
Television
After making her final film in 1949, in 1950 Holt 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 starring Dale Robertson.
Recognition
In 1984, she received the Golden Boot Award for her contributions to Western cinema.[8]
Personal life
Holt was married numerous times, living for a while in Mexico. She had no children.
The marriages that can be confirmed were:
November 19, 1943, to Marine Major William M. Ritchey in Yuma, Arizona.[9] She sought a divorce after four months,[10] and the divorce was granted on August 4, 1944.[11]
September 29, 1946, to William Bakewell.[12] She filed suit for divorce from Bakewell on April 23, 1948.[13] The divorce was granted June 10, 1948.[14]
March 2, 1951, to advertising executive J. Hugh Davis.[15]
Aylmer Hughes Chamberlain, her last husband, with whom she was living in England at the time of her death in 1997.[16][17]
Death
Holt was living in Dorset, England in the United Kingdom with her husband, Aylmer Hughes Chamberlain, at the time of her death from cancer at age 76 in 1997.
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