Phillips Holmes
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1907-07-22
Locus Natus: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Et ut: Phillips Raymond Holmes, Phillips R. Holmes
Penthouse
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping...
release : 1933.09.08popularis : 2.947
The Criminal Code
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...
release : 1931.01.03popularis : 3.584
Galas de la Paramount
Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to Spanish-speaking audiences mixed with original- version...
release : 1930.07.31popularis : 2.076
The Wild Party
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets...
release : 1929.04.06popularis : 5.772
General Spanky
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...
release : 1936.12.11popularis : 3.32
An American Tragedy
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
release : 1931.08.22popularis : 1.913
The Secret of Madame Blanche
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
release : 1933.02.03popularis : 3.112
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...
release : 1972.01.10popularis : 8.408
Confessions of a Co-Ed
A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love....
release : 1931.07.11popularis : 4.251
Nana
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck...
release : 1934.02.01popularis : 1.907
Night Court
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
release : 1932.06.04popularis : 4.889
Only the Brave
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to...
release : 1930.03.07popularis : 3.382
Man to Man
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
release : 1930.12.05popularis : 2.267
Men Must Fight
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
release : 1933.02.17popularis : 2.638
Stolen Heaven
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work....
release : 1931.02.20popularis : 1.159
Great Expectations
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss...
release : 1934.10.22popularis : 1.534
Beauty for Sale
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of...
release : 1933.09.01popularis : 2.082
Grumpy
An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
release : 1930.08.01popularis : 0.962
Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...
release : 1933.09.29popularis : 6.341
Chatterbox
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the...
release : 1936.01.17popularis : 1.742
Pointed Heels
Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss...
release : 1929.12.20popularis : 2.314
The Devil's Holiday
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men,...
release : 1930.05.09popularis : 2.376
Broken Lullaby
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...
release : 1932.01.19popularis : 8.004
Varsity
The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times,...
release : 1928.10.27popularis : 0.553
Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...
release : 1933.06.14popularis : 1.835
Two Kinds of Women
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city. While there, she finds...
release : 1932.01.16popularis : 2.047
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
release : 1961.12.31popularis : 3.001
Looking Forward
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
release : 1933.04.28popularis : 1.274
Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...
release : 1933.12.22popularis : 11.116
Million Dollar Ransom
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
release : 1934.09.01popularis : 1.545
Caravan
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
release : 1934.12.30popularis : 3.147
The Big Brain
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish,...
release : 1933.08.04popularis : 1.516
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
release : 1929.10.26popularis : 6.563
The House of a Thousand Candles
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to...
release : 1936.04.02popularis : 2.72
No Ransom
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat...
release : 1934.10.07popularis : 1.265
The Dominant Sex
A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!
release : 1937.01.26popularis : 1.537
The Divine Spark
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
release : 1935.06.01popularis : 1.974
Housemaster
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
release : 1938.01.31popularis : 1.303
His Private Life
Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her,...
release : 1928.11.17popularis : 1.152
Her Man
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
release : 1930.09.21popularis : 2.51
Make Me a Star
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
release : 1932.07.01popularis : 3.217
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
release : 1988.10.01popularis : 4.339
70,000 Witnesses
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses...
release : 1932.09.09popularis : 2.403
The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...
release : 1931.07.08popularis : 2.81
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
release : 1964.09.02popularis : 2.127
Ten Minute Alibi
Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things...
release : 1935.08.12popularis : 0.972
Stairs of Sand
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
release : 1929.06.08popularis : 2.26