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Born Jackie Jean Crouch on June 9, 1926, in the barely-there town of Kensett, Arkansas, to a 17-year-old baker and a 13-year-old girl, Georgia Holt didn't have it easy. Her parents separated when she was young, and, according to a 1978 People Magazine profile, she mostly stuck with her itinerant, dirt-broke father, who began hitchhiking West from The Natural State in search of any kind of living. As she bounced from town to town, Holt's father ultimately hit upon the brilliant notion of exploiting his young daughter's vocal gifts and striking good looks.
It worked. Kind of. In a situation Holt likened to Peter Bogdanovich's classic father-daughter comedy "Paper Moon," the precocious young singer earned the pair enough money to get by and won more than a few beauty pageants. But this life on the road led her to make questionable decisions of her own,...
Born Jackie Jean Crouch on June 9, 1926, in the barely-there town of Kensett, Arkansas, to a 17-year-old baker and a 13-year-old girl, Georgia Holt didn't have it easy. Her parents separated when she was young, and, according to a 1978 People Magazine profile, she mostly stuck with her itinerant, dirt-broke father, who began hitchhiking West from The Natural State in search of any kind of living. As she bounced from town to town, Holt's father ultimately hit upon the brilliant notion of exploiting his young daughter's vocal gifts and striking good looks.
It worked. Kind of. In a situation Holt likened to Peter Bogdanovich's classic father-daughter comedy "Paper Moon," the precocious young singer earned the pair enough money to get by and won more than a few beauty pageants. But this life on the road led her to make questionable decisions of her own,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
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