Ronald and Nancy Reagan after wedding, today 1952, at home of their friends Ardis and William Holden, who were the only guests. Mrs. Reagan much later told me that the Holdens were fighting that day, and barely spoke to each other. Toluca Lake, California. 
William Holden served as Ronald Reagan’s best man two years after appearing with Gloria Swanson in “Sunset Boulevard” (1952).
Sadly Holden met a sad end in 1981, when, after drinking in his apartment, he fell, struck his head and bled to death.
Poignantly Holden’s real-life demise could have been a scene in “Sunset Boulevard."
In “Network” (1976), Holden played the old-school TV news executive who gets fired:
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