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Stage Mother, the 1933 Charles Brabin family relationship stage acting melodrama (about a vaudeville star who leaves her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living) starring Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes, Ted Healy (most famous as the person who started The Three Stooges; they were first billed as "Ted Healy and his Stooges"; he let them go on their own, hiring replacement "Stooges", but that did not work out well at all!), and John Larkin (a black African American actor, who did not start in movies until he was over 50, and he unfortunately only got to play the stereotyped roles available to black actors of that time). Note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", retitled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman!
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