Cheryl Holdridge

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Cheryl Holdridge (born June 20, 1944, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a United States actress. She was the adopted step-daughter of Brigadier General Herbert C. Holdridge, a fringe party candidate for the presidency during the 1950s. She was a member of the original Mickey Mouse Club from 1955. She joined during the second season and quickly gained a coveted seat on the club's "Red Team"--the most visible and popular of the Mouseketeers. A gifted all-around performer, her talents included acting and singing, as well as tap, ballet and toe dancing.

Cheryl first performed professionally at the age of nine, when she landed a lead role in the New York City Ballet's version of The Nutcracker Suite in Los Angeles.

After the show's run ended, Cheryl returned to Van Nuys high school and made guest appearances on a variety of television shows, including My Three Sons, Bewitched and The Dick Van Dyke Show. She was also cast in the lead role of Betty in an unsold television series pilot based on the Archie line of comics. More recently, she made a very brief appearance in the 2000 feature film, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. She was also featured in "Leave It To Beaver" as Wally Cleaver's date, while they were attending Mayfield High School.

She has been married twice. Her first husband, who died in a plane crash eight years after their 1964 marriage, was sportsman and athlete Lance Reventlow, the only son of mercantile heiress Barbara Hutton and her second husband, a Scandinavian count. Her second husband was Manning J. Post, a major figure in Democratic politics in California.

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• Images of Cheryl from her appearance on Bewitched
• Cheryl Holdridge, before and after the Mickey Mouse Club
• Cheryl Holdridge at Original MMC Show