Joyce Holden
Birthday: 1930-09-01 Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Synopsis
Born in Missouri in September 1930, actress Joyce Holden made only a handful of films during her brief career. Nonetheless, she starred in several now-cult classic films including Girls in the Night (1953; with Glenda Farrell and Harvey Lembeck), The Werewolf (1956), and Terror From the Year 5000 (1958)
Acting
Terror from the Year 5000
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?
The Werewolf
The arrival in a small mountain town of a dissheveled stranger launches a series of murders committed by some sort of animal. As the town doctor and his daughter attempt to help the stranger, the sheriff investigates the murders; and they uncover a sinister experiment involving two rogue scientists, a car accident victim, his wife and children, and a serum that causes a man to turn into a ravaging werewolf.
Iron Man
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a boxer, knowing that when he fights he's consumed with a murderous rage that makes him an "iron man." Seeing dollar signs in Rose's eyes, Coke reluctantly agrees, though he's fearful of the "killer instinct" that makes him a knockout success in the ring...and brings him the booing hatred of the fans. Will Coke throw off his personal demon before he kills someone?
Girls in the Night
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Murder Without Tears
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
Bronco Buster
A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up competing against him.
You Never Can Tell
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the girl who used to look after him.
The Milkman
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
