THE PAST OF MARY HOLMES.
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✎ Suggest a correctionMary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. She blames her grown son Geoffrey (Linden) for the deterioration of her voice, and does everything to destroy his life. When Geoffrey announces to her that he will marry Joan Hoyt (Arthur), an actress, she threatens to reveal to Joan that he is an illegitimate birth. Meanwhile, Jacob Riggs (Simpson), a doorman at the Ethridge theatre, shoots and kills his boss on the evening when he is awaiting his final rendezvous with Joan
Credits
- Cast
- Eric Linden, Jean Arthur
Complete catalog record
THE PAST OF MARY HOLMES. 1933. 4 reels, sd. From the story "The Goose Woman" by Rex Beach. Credits: Associate producer, Bartlett Cormack; director, Harlan Thompson; screenplay, Marion Dix, Edward Doherty; film editor, Charles L. Kimball. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 20Jan33; LP3629.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q7756304 ↗ — color, country
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