weeks and played a non-singing Julie La Verne on the 1940 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Show Boat, based on the 1936 film version. Personal life Holden married Harold A. Winston on December 17, 1932; the couple divorced on December 2, 1937. In 1944, she married her third husband, William Hoyt, to whom she remained married until her death. They had one son, William Christopher Hoyt, who was born in 1948 and killed in an automobile accident in 1970, listed as a homicide. Holden died at Redlands hospital of a myocardial infarction in 1991, aged 87. Legacy Harold Winston, who is credited with helping discover actor William Holden, named him in honor of Gloria Holden. A version of how William Holden obtained his stage name is based on a statement by George Ross of Billboard magazine: "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in Golden Boy, used to be Bill Beadle. And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the "Golden Boy" newcomer and who renamed him—in honor of his former spouse!..." Partial filmography The Return of Chandu (1934, Serial) - Party Guest [Ch. 1] (uncredited) Wife vs. Secretary (1936) - Joan Carstairs Dracula's Daughter (1936) - Countess Marya Zaleska (Dracula's Daughter) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - Alexandrine Zola Hawaii Calls (1938) - Mrs. Milburn Test Pilot (1938) - Mrs. May Benson Girls' School (1938) - Miss Laurel Dodge City (1939) - Mrs. Cole Miracles for Sale (1939) - Madame Rapport A Child Is Born (1939) - Mrs. Kempner This Thing Called Love (1940) - Genevieve Hooper Passage from Hong Kong (1941) - Madame Wrangell The Corsican Brothers (1941) - Countess Franchi A Gentleman After Dark (1942) - Miss Clark Miss Annie Rooney (1942) - Esther White Apache Trail (1942) - Mrs. James V. Thorne Behind the Rising Sun (1943) - Sara Braden Strange Holiday (1945) - Mrs. (Jean) Stevenson The Girl of the Limberlost (1945) - Phyllis Gray Adventures of Rusty (1945) - Louise Hover Hit the Hay (1945) - Mimi Valdez Strange Holiday (1946) - Mrs. McDonnell (uncredited) Undercover Maisie (1947) - Mrs. Guy Canford The Hucksters (1947) - Mrs. Kimberly Killer