Maynard Holmes
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Maynard Holmes.
Born: October 15, 1908
Place of Birth: Clay County, Georgia, USA
Known For
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
The Lady from Shanghai
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Desirable
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Gold Diggers of 1933
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Spring Parade
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Uncle Joe
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
Filmography
as Henchman Buck
as Truck Driver
as Truck Driver (uncredited)
as Private (uncredited)
as Citizen (uncredited)
as Boyd Sheldon, Draftee (uncredited)
as T. Fulton Whistler
as Pvt. 'Portly' Porter
as Scion on Boat (uncredited)
as Skinny
as Wilhelm
as Bugler
as Joe Gordon
as Tommy
as Clyde
as Kenneth, Barabbas's Young Gunman (uncredited)
as Dave Maxwell
as Pvt. 'Tubby' Waters
as Edgar
as The Dauphin
as Toby - Party Boy
as Jasper Bradley Jr.
as Pratt - Personnel Office (uncredited)
as First Delivery Boy (uncredited)
as Doctor on Phone
as Beer Garden Singer (uncredited)
as College Student (uncredited)