Mary Philips

Mary Philips

Birth : 1901-01-23, New London, Connecticut, USA

Death : 1975-04-22

History

Mary Philips was an American stage, screen, and television actress.

Profile

Mary Philips

Movies

Prince Valiant
Queen
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
Dear Brat
Edie Wilkins
Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Mrs. Boyd
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
Dear Wife
Mrs. Wilkins
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in opposition to the local political machine. Unknown to Miriam, said machine nominates her father, Judge Wilkins. As support grows for Bill, the presence of rival candidates under one roof poses problems, especially for Ruth, wife to Bill and daughter of the judge.
A Woman's Secret
Mrs. Mary Fowler
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.
Dear Ruth
Mrs. Edie Wilkins
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
Leave Her to Heaven
Mrs. Berent
A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
Kiss and Tell
Dorothy Pringle
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
Incendiary Blonde
Bessie Guinan
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Captain Eddie
Elsie Rickenbacker
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Lady in the Dark
Maggie Grant
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
Breakdowns of 1938
Mary (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Mannequin
Beryl Lee (as Mary Phillips)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
The Bride Wore Red
Maria
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
That Certain Woman
Amy
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Wings Over Honolulu
Hattie Penletter
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
As Good as Married
Laura
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.
A Farewell to Arms
Helen Ferguson
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Broadway's Like That
Ruth's Fiance's Wife
A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.