 Initially, Holt found it difficult to get acting jobs.He did, however, get a job as "body double" for Cheeta's chimpanzee predecessor in the 1933 film "Tarzan the Fearless" and had a small role in the 1933 "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") comedy "Forgotten Babies".At age seven, in 1934, Holt got his acting break in the movie "You Belong to Me", a melodrama in which his character's parents dies.