Trivia

She married Felix Guggenehim and moved to Switzerland in 1938, moved to England in 1940 and then to the USA.

Blonde, blue-eyed leading lady of the 1920's and early 30's. The daughter of an English journalist (according to her mother's notarised statement), she was trained as a singer which allowed her to make a seamless transition from silent to sound pictures. Her career ended abruptly during the NS period when her birth name, Sklarz, was deemed by the regime as being 'too Jewish'. Holt spent a few more years as a soubrette at the Comic Opera in Berlin, then married an American publisher, emigrated to the U.S. via Switzerland and left show business.

In the last years of the silent movie era she came in contact with the film and acted in well-known productions like "Die Waise von Lowood" 19(26), "Liebelei" (1927) and "Ehe in Not" (1929).

With her marriage in 1936 she finished the discussion on her origin, by resigning from the film business. Evelyn Holt and her husband Felix Guggenheim emigrated via Switzerland and England to the USA where she lived till her death.

The transition to the sound film didn't give her problems because she was an educated soubrette.

With the assumption of power of the Nazis became her professional field of activity very restricted. Because of her birthname Sklarz she wasn't accepted as an Aryan what meant that she merely was able to appear at the "Komische Oper" in Berlin.