July 2012- Phillips Holmes

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Mrs Vindecco Administrator Posts: 1,561	July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 19, 2012 19:17:39 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Mrs Vindecco on Jul 19, 2012 19:17:39 GMT Our very first "Star of the Month" is Phillips Holmes as suggested by Monk's Moll.
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Violet Scurrying Hunchback Posts: 383	July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 19, 2012 22:35:13 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Violet on Jul 19, 2012 22:35:13 GMT Nice choice, MM! He was great in Dinner at eight (1933) and of course Man to man.

woofy Scurrying Hunchback Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. Posts: 289	July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 21, 2012 1:57:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by woofy on Jul 21, 2012 1:57:18 GMT Interesting choice for star of the month. Very handsome, very personable. Killed at age 35 in a wartime accident. I wonder how big he could have gotten if he had survived.

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July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 21, 2012 13:57:00 GMT

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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Jul 21, 2012 13:57:00 GMT

It's hard to say what would have happened if he had survived. From the few things I have seen him in Phillips seems to have been mostly cast as characters that exude an almost boyish innocence and it seemed to fit quite nicely at the start of the Thirties, but then as the decade wore on cinema changed and leading men were often more hard or witty and that trend seemed to continue into and beyond WW2.

Then again age might have hardened him and he could have graduated into grittier leading parts. I can't think of many leading men that happened to. I guess Dick Powell made the transition from the all American musicals to early film noir and William Holden went from the boy-next-door to the more cynical, macho type.

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July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 22, 2012 13:38:55 GMT

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Post by Monk's Moll on Jul 22, 2012 13:38:55 GMT

Thank you, Mrs. V., and thank you Violet

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He was a wonderful actor, I loved him in Chatterbox with Anne Shirley, Lucille Ball and Margaret Hamilton

. I agree, Mrs. V., I think he would have done well in detective movies.

And as today is his birthday...Happy Birthday, Phillips

! I once visited his resting place, his brother Ralph is also there.

“When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

- Alexander Graham Bell -

drxgal Guest	July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 22, 2012 16:15:44 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by drxgal on Jul 22, 2012 16:15:44 GMT My favorite film with Phillips Holmes is Broken Lullaby(1932). Unfortunately as probably all his movies this one is forgotten by modern audience.
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July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 22, 2012 18:08:29 GMT

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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Jul 22, 2012 18:08:29 GMT

Someone wrote this very nice entry about Phillips on the TCM website. I am floored by what Douglas Fairbank Jr wrote about him. If that's true, I take my hat off to him. Seriously need to check out more of his films now.

heckyeahphillipsholmes.wikispaces.com/

Happy Birthday Phillips!

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Mrs Vindecco Administrator Posts: 1,561	July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 23, 2012 20:15:04 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Mrs Vindecco on Jul 23, 2012 20:15:04 GMT Clip from "An American Tragedy" starring Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney and directed by Josef von Sternberg.

Mrs Vindecco Administrator Posts: 1,561	July 2012- Phillips Holmes Jul 27, 2012 23:21:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Mrs Vindecco on Jul 27, 2012 23:21:18 GMT The film that introduced me to Phillips Holmes, Man To Man (1931)

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