Following her divorce she became involved with jazz musician Gerry Mulligan. After learning she had breast cancer and stopped filming, she began writing songs with him...he the music and she the lyrics. . Some of these songs appear on the album "Holliday With Mulligan" that they recorded together in 1961; it was not released until 1980.

Son Jonathan Oppenheim born November 11, 1952.

Her performance as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1950) is ranked #96 on Premiere Magazine`s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

To help build up Holliday`s image, particularly in the eyes of Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn, Katharine Hepburn deliberately leaked stories to the gossip columns suggesting that her performance in Adam`s Rib (1949) was so good that it had stolen the spotlight from Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. This got Cohn`s attention and Holliday won the part in Born Yesterday (1950).

Won Broadway`s 1957 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Bells Are Ringing," a role she recreated in the film version of the same name, Bells Are Ringing (1960).

Dated Nicholas Ray in 1944.

Lived in the building where John Lennon was murdered.

Son, Jonathan Oppenheim, is a film editor.

An only child.

According to biographer Gary Carey, Holliday flummoxed the House Un=American Activities Committee so much in its search for "subversives" in the film industry (by essentially playing her Billie Dawn character on the witness stand) that she ended up being the only person ever called before HUAC who was neither blacklisted nor compelled to name names.

Listed by Madonna as one of her biggest influences Co-wrote and performed songs with jazz legend Gerry Mulligan for the album "Holliday with Mulligan".

Singer.

Despite her image of a "dumb blond", she was actually very smart. Her I.Q was measured at 172. She often said that it took a lot of smarts to convince people that her characters were stupid.

Spouse: Dave Oppenheim (5 January 1948 - 1 March 1958) (divorced) 1 child