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Submarine Command 1952.
Paramount
Director: John Farrow
Cast:      William Holden (Commander White)
              Nancy Olson, William Bendix,
                Don Taylor, Arthur Franz

Holden and Olson are back together in a predictable but acceptable post WWII account of naval military life.
Holden is good in a role that is now becoming routine for him.

Meet the Stewarts   1942
Columbia
Director: Alfred A. Green
Cast:   William Holden (Michael Stewart)
             Frances Dee,

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Tough script by Warren Duff sparks this gritty if familiar drama.
O'Brien is a crime-buster investigating big city corruption. Holden ,his boyhood friend, is a cynical reporter.

Boots Malone   1952.
Columbia
Director: William Dieterle
Cast:    William Holden (Boots Malone)
             Johnny Stewart,
               Carl Benton Reid,
              Ed Begley, Anna Lee.
Screenplay:    Milton Holmes

The turning point   1952.
Paramount
Director: William Dieterle & Fridrikh Ermler
Cast:   William Holden (Jerry McKibbon)
           Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith,
             Tom Tully, Ed Begley,
Screenplay: Warren Duff

A honest-to-goodness race track melodrama with a neatly structured screenplay has Holden (in the title role) as a down-on-his luck jockey's agent ,taking under his wing a wealthy,albeit neglected kid, and with the help of an elderly horse-trainer and an untried nag, turning him into a prize jockey.

Edmond O'Brien,, William Holden,Alexis Smith

William Holden, Johnny Stewart

The moon is blue   1953.
Columbia
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast:    William Holden (Donald Gresham)
             Dawn Addams, Maggie McNamara,
              David Niven, Tom Tully,
              Gregory Ratoff, Hardy Kruger,
Screenplay: F.Hugh Herbert from his own play.

William Holden, Maggie McNamara, David Niven

Holden started 1953 with the lead in this saucy comedy about a young woman who flaunts her virginity (the delicious McNamara)
The film created a scandal at his time; (now it is flat and tame0 but gave Holden a needed breath of fresh air after his war movies and was the appetizer for his next important role (a war movie again!)

Starring:
William Holden : 1952 - 1953