Brown Holmes

Nacimiento : , Toledo, Ohio, USA

Películas

The Studebaker Story
Screenplay
The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into automobiles.
My True Story
Screenplay
Ann Martin (Helen Walker) is serving time as a jewel thief. She is paroled and determined to stay clean. She quickly finds out that she was paroled by an old, vicious boss that has picked her for a job. It is dangerous for her to say yes or no.
Shed No Tears
Screenplay
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Tres jovencitas vestidas de azul
Adaptation
En 1902, en Red Bank, Nueva Jersey, las tres hermanas Charters (Pam, Liz y Myra) han heredado una granja de pollos y esperan una importante suma de dinero en efectivo de su tía Cora. Las chicas planean utilizar los fondos para viajar y buscar maridos ricos. Cuando el abogado les informa que la cantidad es muy pequeña, las hermanas deciden marcharse al lujoso Hotel Chalfonte en Atlantic City, donde conocen al millonario Steve Harrington. Remake de "Three Blind Mice" (1938).
Moon Over Miami
Screenplay
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara Latimer (Carole Landis), waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands. With the aid of their aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), the sisters take the last of their money and head to a well-known Miami resort where they soon meet two wealthy young men, Phil (Don Ameche) and Jeff (Robert Cummings), who begin a fierce rivalry for Kay, not realizing that Barbara has fallen in love with one of them.
Castle on the Hudson
Screenplay
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Hollywood Cavalcade
Story
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Three Blind Mice
Screenplay
Tres hermanas algo descocadas reciben una pequeña herencia, abandonan Kansas y se marchan a un apartamento de lujo en Manhattan, con la intención de cazar un marido rico y seguir con ese nivel de vida antes que se les acabe el dinero.
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Screenplay
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
The Lady Fights Back
Screenplay
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
Top of the Town
Writer
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Oh, Doctor
Screenplay
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Flying Hostess
Writer
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
Satan Met a Lady
Screenplay
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Snowed Under
Screenplay
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Writer
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
We're in the Money
Screenplay
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
The Case of the Curious Bride
Dialogue
Durante sus vacaciones en China, Perry Mason se encuentra con Rhoda, una antigua amiga que lo busca para que la ayude a esclarecer un caso. Moxley, su marido, que se supone que había muerto hace cuatro años, resulta que está vivo y le pide dinero. El caso se complica cuando la policía encuentra a Moxley muerto, pues ella se convierte en la principal sospechosa.
The Florentine Dagger
Additional Dialogue
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
While the Patient Slept
Additional Dialogue
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
While the Patient Slept
Additional Writing
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
I Sell Anything
Screenplay
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Heat Lightning
Screenplay
Melodrama que entronca con el estilo de cine negro que su director, Mervyn LeRoy, había adoptado en otras cintas como "Soy un fugitivo" (1932). Su argumento proviene de una obra teatral escrita por Leon Abrams y George Abbott, que se estrenó en Broadway en 1933. Considerada un antecedente de otra producción Warner, "El bosque petrificado" (1936), su acción transcurre en una perdida estación de servicio en California. Allí, durante 24 horas, una serie de personajes van a cruzar sus caminos con el nexo en común de Olga, la dueña del local. Ella se va a relacionar con una pareja de criminales, uno de ellos un antiguo amante.
Dark Hazard
Screenplay
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.
The Avenger
Writer
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
El regreso de la forastera
Screenplay
Una neoyorkina aburrida visita la granja de su família en Iowa, la cual es dirigida por el irascible Abuelo Storr, ayudado por el alchólico aunque laborioso Simon. A su regreso también se encontrará con la hostilidad de Beatrice, su prima, y del marido de ésta, Alan. No ayudará mucho a esta enemistad provocada por los celos el que se haga amiga del marido de una popular lugareña, Nettie.
En boca de todos
Screenplay
La atractiva Nan Taylor integrante de una banda que roba un banco, va a la cárcel gracias al evangelista David Slade... que la ama.
Veinte mil años en Sing Sing
Screenplay
Tom Connors, un preso a quien se concede un permiso para visitar a su novia herida, se ve involucrado en una pelea con un mafioso, a quien su novia mata de un disparo. Connors huye del lugar del crimen por una ventana y, cuando regresa a prisión, es culpado del asesinato y condenado a la silla electrica.
Soy un fugitivo
Screenplay
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
Street of Women
Adaptation
Un arquitecto casado, atrapado en un matrimonio sin amor a causa de su hija, mantiene una relación con una diseñadora de vestuario. Cuando está a punto de pedir el divorcio a su esposa, la hija se enamora del hermano de su amante.
¿Hay mujeres así?
Screenplay
Tras ser abandonada por el hombre que la ilusionó con un futuro respetable, Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) cae en las garras de Nicky Grant (Leslie Fenton), un truhán al que se apega para poder sostener a la pequeña hija de un padre cuyo nombre nunca confesará. Entre tanto, Jimmy Cook (Richard Cromwell), un decente botones que la ama sinceramente, es leal y constante con ella, pero, Molly se convertirá en personaje de primera plana y el reportero Scotty Cornell (Lee Tracy), irrumpirá en su vida.
¿Hay mujeres así?
Adaptation
Tras ser abandonada por el hombre que la ilusionó con un futuro respetable, Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) cae en las garras de Nicky Grant (Leslie Fenton), un truhán al que se apega para poder sostener a la pequeña hija de un padre cuyo nombre nunca confesará. Entre tanto, Jimmy Cook (Richard Cromwell), un decente botones que la ama sinceramente, es leal y constante con ella, pero, Molly se convertirá en personaje de primera plana y el reportero Scotty Cornell (Lee Tracy), irrumpirá en su vida.
Play Girl
Writer
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
The Maltese Falcon
Screenplay
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.