Former Mousketeer,Cheryl Holdridge Dies
Former Mouseketeer,the beautiful celebrity and actress has died.She was 64 years old.Holdridge is a first gained fame as a Mouseketeer on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club" in the 1950s.Holdridge died Tuesday at her home in Santa Monica after a two-year battle with lung cancer, said Doreen Tracey, another former Mouseketeer.
"What's amazing is that Cheryl and I have gone through so many things together, I'm glad I could have been there in the end too,She was a good technical dancer, but I think she was picked mostly because she had this angelic look and a great smile; she's known for her smile.We used to try to keep her quiet when she started singing because she sang off key." Tracey said on Thursday.
Mouseketeer Cheryl joined the original Mickey Mouse Club in the spring of 1956. She was a member of the ‘Red Team’, the most visible and popular of the Mouseketeers. The original cast included Annette Funicello, Doreen Tracey, Tommy Cole, Darlene Gillespie, Bobby Burgess, Cubby O’Brien, Karen Pendleton, Lonnie Burr and Sharon Baird.
Her television career kicked into high gear in 1960 when she appeared on over twenty different shows, including The Rifleman, My Three Sons, Bewitched, Bringing Up Buddy and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Her television career kicked into high gear in 1960 when she appeared on over twenty different shows, including The Rifleman, My Three Sons, Bewitched, Bringing Up Buddy and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Holdridge left the business in 1964 when she married his first husband,Lance Reventlow, the son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton,a sportsman and athlete.However,he died in a plane crash eight years after they were married. Her second husband Manning J. Post was a major figure in Democratic politics in California. He died in 2000. Neither marriage produced children.
Holdridge was born Cheryl Lynn Phelps on June 20, 1944, in New Orleans and moved to Los Angeles when she was 2. Her mother, Julie Austin, was a former Ziegfeld Follies featured dancer and comedian and encouraged her to express herself through dance.
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