about me

Carol Hollenbeck was born in Newburgh, New York, just sixty miles from New York City where 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 movie marquee.
In Hollywood, she was truly discovered walking down the famous street of Sunset
and Vine. The first week she arrived, she was hired for a television commercial.
She filmed a candy commercial, where she played the role of “Miss Vanilla” for
SkyBar candy. Soon after, she was picked to be a Las Vegas showgirl, and
found herself working at the famous Riveria Hotel in the heart of the desert.
There she pranced nightly in the musical IRMA LA DOUCE with the
sizzling dance star Miss Juliet Prowse.
Returning to Hollywood, she acted in several low budget teeny
bopper films, where she wore her bikini well. She played a featured role
in another teen movie EDEN CRIED, which premiered in her home town of Newburgh. She flew home in true movie star style to a wonderful and exciting event. She was greeted with open arms and good reviews…
Then the hard knocks began.
After Hollywood disappointments, she decided to move back to New York. When asked what she had wanted to be when she grew up, she always replied,
“I don t want to be an actress, I want to be a movie star.”
Well, times had changed and so had she.
She was determined to become an actress and a good one at that. With her tail between her legs, she made a new beginning in the big city. She studied drama at one of the famous schools, and began to get bit roles in soap operas and loads of background work in movies.
One of her best film shoots was working on the classic eighties comedy TOOTSIE. Carol plays an autograph hound who chases the actress Jessica Lange down the street. Several Off Off Broadway roles followed, with good reviews in the trade papers. She also appeared on many local cable shows and even became a movie reviewer .
After joining a woman’s ensemble group in the nineteen eighties , she abandoned performing and began to write for the stage.
Three of her one act plays have been nominated in the Samuel French Contest: .FUNKY FIFTIES, 1995. THE LIFTERS,1999 and UPSTATE MADNESS, 2004. Her other script credits are a comic screenplay adaptation with Monteserrat Montez of her play UPSTATE MOURNING.
“THE LIFTERS” has premiered as a short film in 2009.
She then decided to transform her life into a work of fiction, TRUE BLONDES based on some of her true tales of a light haired goddess in show business. Blondes are set up to think they are special. There is a fascination about them but the question remains
"Are true blondes special?”
Which blonde is true and do they really have more fun? Read the book and find out.
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favourite books

The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin by Barbara Ulrich
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Awakening Intuition by Mona Lisa Schulz
The Courage To Be Rich by Suze Orman
You Have Been Here Before by Edith Fiore
all of Shirley MacClaine

my websites

http://trueblondesbook.com     http://amazon.com