Heroine of the Month: Ula Holt
It is hard to say what sabotaged Ula Holt’s career more, a lack of experience or an off screen romance. Whichever it was she disappeared almost as quickly as she appeared. Her only film is the Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc serial, The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935), playing Ula Vale, fiancee of a pilot that crashed in the jungles of Guatemala, she ventures into the jungle to find him and eventually hooks up with Tarzan’s safari as they attempt to prevent a mercenary from stealing the Green Goddess idol that contains a vast treasure and a powerful explosive.
Filmed on location in Guatemala, Holt became romantically involved with Producer/ Actor Ashton Dearholt, he eventually left his wife, silent film star Frances Gilbert and married Holt. In a final bit of irony Edgar Rice Burroughs , who was good friends with Dearholt, married Gilbert. As for Ula Holt, she disappeared from acting completely.
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