Phillips Holmes Trailers
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Phillips Raymond Holmes (July 22, 1907 – August 12, 1942) was an American actor. In 1928 Holmes was spotted in the undergraduate crowd at Princeton University during the filming of Frank Tuttle's Varsity and offered a screen test. In the early 1930s he became a popular leading man, playing leads in a few important productions, notably in Josef von Sternberg's An American Tragedy.
At Paramount, Holmes starred in melodrama and comedy. In 1933 his Paramount contract ran out and he moved to MGM for one year. As the decade progressed, his career declined, and he appeared in a few box-office failures, including Sam Goldwyn's poorly received Nana (1934). His last American movie was General Spanky (1936). In 1938 Holmes appeared in two UK movies. Housemaster was his last film. Then he returned to acting on stage in the United States.
At the start of World War II, Holmes joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was killed in a mid-air collision in northwest Ontario, Canada in 1942.
For his contributions to the film industry, Phillips Holmes was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Most Popular Phillips Holmes Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
01 October 1988
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
28 April 1933
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
29 September 1933
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 blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig.
02 April 1936
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace.
04 August 1933
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, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money.
04 June 1932
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
07 October 1934
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 son.
10 January 1972
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
21 September 1930
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
14 June 1933
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand.
17 February 1933
Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
11 December 1936
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat.
08 June 1929
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
09 May 1930
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone.
12 August 1935
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 out.
01 July 1932
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.
21 December 1929
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 Wray, but he won't use his influence to take any advantage.
06 April 1929
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 in trouble, her professor has to rescue her.
22 April 1930
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cres
30 December 1934
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
22 December 1933
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple.
26 January 1937
A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!
16 January 1932
The daughter of a senator from South Dakota visits Manhattan for the first time, eager to see the sights of the big city.
07 March 1930
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission.
22 August 1931
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
03 January 1931
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years.
03 February 1933
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
20 February 1931
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.
01 February 1934
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 that he decides to make her a performer at his musical theater.
11 July 1931
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.
01 August 1930
A crotchety, old ex-attorney solves the violent theft of a priceless diamond from his nephew.
24 January 1932
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 having attended the same musical conservatory in France.
31 January 1938
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
08 September 1933
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb.
22 October 1934
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
01 September 1934
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.
27 October 1928
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, Nov.
05 December 1930
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
26 October 1929
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
17 November 1928
Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist.
01 June 1935
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini.
17 January 1936
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah.
09 September 1932
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 and dies.
08 July 1931
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912.
01 September 1933
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen.
09 November 1930
After moving from England to Canada, Tony becomes the owner of a dance hall and meets dancer, Maxine.
01 January 1918
Lord Dawlish is made the heir of an eccentric English millionaire, who cuts off a nephew and niece, living in America.
