Mary Philips

Acting

Mary Philips

Born 1901-01-23 · New London, Connecticut, USA

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

Acting credits

Leave Her to Heaven poster
7.5

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

Leave Her to Heaven

1945

That Certain Woman poster
5.6

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

That Certain Woman

1937

Prince Valiant poster
6.1

A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.

Prince Valiant

1954

Kiss and Tell poster
6.3

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.

Kiss and Tell

1945

A Farewell to Arms poster
6.1

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.

A Farewell to Arms

1932

A Woman's Secret poster
5.6

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.

A Woman's Secret

1949

Incendiary Blonde poster
5.1

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!"

Incendiary Blonde

1945

Mannequin poster
6.0

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.

Mannequin

1938

Breakdowns of 1938 poster
5.8

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Breakdowns of 1938

1938

The Bride Wore Red poster
6.7

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

The Bride Wore Red

1937

Wings Over Honolulu poster
6.4

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Wings Over Honolulu

1937

Life Begins poster
6.2

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.

Life Begins

1932

Captain Eddie poster
7.2

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.

Captain Eddie

1945

Lady in the Dark poster
4.7

A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.

Lady in the Dark

1944

Dear Wife poster
6.3

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.

Dear Wife

1949

I Can Get It for You Wholesale poster
6.0

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.

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

1951

Dear Ruth poster
6.7

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.

Dear Ruth

1947

Dear Brat poster
5.6

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.

Dear Brat

1951

As Good as Married poster
8.0

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

As Good as Married

1937

Broadway's Like That poster
3.5

A girl who works in a music store discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her intended husband already has a wife.

Broadway's Like That

1930