OBITUARY
Belinda Vidor Holliday
June 12, 1930 - January 24, 2023
Carmel-by-the-Sea - Artist Belinda Vidor Holliday slipped quietly out of a most exceptional life, surrounded by family and friends in her sunlit Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage, absent the fanfare she had earned but eschewed. She was 92.
Vidor was born in Los Angeles, three years behind her sister, Antonia Vidor, to legendary Hollywood film director, producer, and screenwriter, King Wallis Vidor, and gamine actress Olive Eleanor Boardman. Elegant, willowy, beautiful, Belinda Vidor got her mother's wideset eyes, lit by her father's glycerin blue.
Vidor was a year old when her parents divorced, and her mother, done with the halcyon days of Hollywood, escaped with her children to France. This launched a peripatetic upbringing for the children, between two continents.
Vidor ultimately returned to California, where she attended Mills College before transferring to UCLA, from which she commenced with a degree in art. She went on to marry Dean Jones, with whom she moved to Modesto and had three children. After losing a child in an accident, Vidor chose to reinvent her life in Carmel, where her parents had summered by the sea.
In 1983, she married California historian Jim Holliday, her "husband, her champion, her best friend, her dream come true," with whom she enjoyed 23 of marriage until his passing in 2006.
For services and more information, please go to www.BelindaHolliday.com or www.BelindaVidor.com
Published by San Francisco Chronicle on Feb. 16, 2023.
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Belinda Vidor Holliday
June 12, 1930 - January 24, 2023
Carmel-by-the-Sea - Artist Belinda Vidor Holliday slipped quietly out of a most exceptional life, surrounded by family and friends in her sunlit Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage, absent the fanfare she had earned but eschewed. She was 92.
Vidor was born in Los Angeles, three years behind her sister, Antonia Vidor, to legendary Hollywood film director, producer, and screenwriter, King Wallis Vidor, and gamine actress Olive Eleanor Boardman. Elegant, willowy, beautiful, Belinda Vidor got her mother's wideset eyes, lit by her father's glycerin blue.
Vidor was a year old when her parents divorced, and her mother, done with the halcyon days of Hollywood, escaped with her children to France. This launched a peripatetic upbringing for the children, between two continents.
Vidor ultimately returned to California, where she attended Mills College before transferring to UCLA, from which she commenced with a degree in art. She went on to marry Dean Jones, with whom she moved to Modesto and had three children. After losing a child in an accident, Vidor chose to reinvent her life in Carmel, where her parents had summered by the sea.
In 1983, she married California historian Jim Holliday, her "husband, her champion, her best friend, her dream come true," with whom she enjoyed 23 of marriage until his passing in 2006.
For services and more information, please go to www.BelindaHolliday.com or www.BelindaVidor.com
Published by San Francisco Chronicle on Feb. 16, 2023.
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OBITUARY
Belinda Vidor Holliday
June 12, 1930 - January 24, 2023
Carmel-by-the-Sea - Artist Belinda Vidor Holliday slipped quietly out of a most exceptional life, surrounded by family and friends in her sunlit Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage, absent the fanfare she had earned but eschewed. She was 92.
Vidor was born in Los Angeles, three years behind her sister, Antonia Vidor, to legendary Hollywood film director, producer, and screenwriter, King Wallis Vidor, and gamine actress Olive Eleanor Boardman. Elegant, willowy, beautiful, Belinda Vidor got her mother's wideset eyes, lit by her father's glycerin blue.
Vidor was a year old when her parents divorced, and her mother, done with the halcyon days of Hollywood, escaped with her children to France. This launched a peripatetic upbringing for the children, between two continents.
Vidor ultimately returned to California, where she attended Mills College before transferring to UCLA, from which she commenced with a degree in art. She went on to marry Dean Jones, with whom she moved to Modesto and had three children. After losing a child in an accident, Vidor chose to reinvent her life in Carmel, where her parents had summered by the sea.
In 1983, she married California historian Jim Holliday, her "husband, her champion, her best friend, her dream come true," with whom she enjoyed 23 of marriage until his passing in 2006.
For services and more information, please go to www.BelindaHolliday.com or www.BelindaVidor.com
Published by San Francisco Chronicle on Feb. 16, 2023.
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Belinda Vidor Holliday
June 12, 1930 - January 24, 2023
Carmel-by-the-Sea - Artist Belinda Vidor Holliday slipped quietly out of a most exceptional life, surrounded by family and friends in her sunlit Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage, absent the fanfare she had earned but eschewed. She was 92.
Vidor was born in Los Angeles, three years behind her sister, Antonia Vidor, to legendary Hollywood film director, producer, and screenwriter, King Wallis Vidor, and gamine actress Olive Eleanor Boardman. Elegant, willowy, beautiful, Belinda Vidor got her mother's wideset eyes, lit by her father's glycerin blue.
Vidor was a year old when her parents divorced, and her mother, done with the halcyon days of Hollywood, escaped with her children to France. This launched a peripatetic upbringing for the children, between two continents.
Vidor ultimately returned to California, where she attended Mills College before transferring to UCLA, from which she commenced with a degree in art. She went on to marry Dean Jones, with whom she moved to Modesto and had three children. After losing a child in an accident, Vidor chose to reinvent her life in Carmel, where her parents had summered by the sea.
In 1983, she married California historian Jim Holliday, her "husband, her champion, her best friend, her dream come true," with whom she enjoyed 23 of marriage until his passing in 2006.
For services and more information, please go to www.BelindaHolliday.com or www.BelindaVidor.com
Published by San Francisco Chronicle on Feb. 16, 2023.
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