{{short description|American actress (1889–1980)}} {{for|the American chemist|Dorothy J. Phillips}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Dorothy Phillips | image = Photoplay Magazine May 1921 Dorothy Phillips.jpg | image_size = 210px | caption = Dorothy Phillips painted by Rolf Armstrong for the cover of ''Photoplay'', May 1923 | birth_name = Dorothy Gwendolyn Strible | birth_date = {{birth date|1889|10|30}} | birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1980|03|01|1889|10|30}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | other_names = Kid Nazimova | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1911–1962 | spouse = Allen Holubar (m.1912–1923; his death) | website = }}
'''Dorothy Phillips''' (born '''Dorothy Gwendolyn Strible''', October 30, 1889 – March 1, 1980)<ref name="SSDI">{{cite web|last=Dorothy Phillips|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=51241671|work=American Ancestors|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|accessdate=July 22, 2011|title=Social Security Death Index|archive-date=March 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320011654/http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=51241671|url-status=dead}}</ref> was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her emotional performances in melodramas, having played a number of "brow beaten" women on screen, but had a pleasant demeanor off.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=du45AQAAMAAJ&q=dorothy+phillips+allen+holubar&pg=RA1-PA4|title=Theatre Magazine|date=1918|publisher=Theatre Magazine Company|language=en}}</ref> She garnered little press for anything outside of her work.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxQXAQAAMAAJ&q=dorothy+phillips+actress+stage&pg=PA124-IA101|title=Motion Picture|date=1922|publisher=Macfadden-Bartell.|language=en}}</ref>
==Career== Born Dorothy Gwendolyn Strible in Baltimore,<ref name="nytamgbio">{{cite web| title= Dorothy Phillips| url= https://movies.nytimes.com/person/56558/Dorothy-Phillips/biography| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121104132813/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/56558/Dorothy-Phillips/biography| url-status= dead| archive-date= 2012-11-04| department= Movies & TV Dept.| work= The New York Times| author= Sandra Brennan| date= 2012| accessdate=2011-05-13}}</ref> Phillips was educated at the College of Expression of Maryland. After graduation she acted with the George Fawcett Stock Co.<ref name=":0" /> Phillips continued her career as a stage actress with Colonel Savage Productions, acting in New York and Chicago. She made her film debut in 1911 in a two-reeler called ''The Rosary'', and appeared in over 150 films during her career. For a time she was nicknamed '''Kid Nazimova''' for her ability to imitate the Russian Hollywood actress Alla Nazimova.<ref name="nytamgbio" /> Phillips started at Universal Pictures often starring with Lon Chaney. Sometimes she would supplement these features with "shorts" filmed at Fox Studios. By 1917 Phillips had appeared in 22 films over two years and had suffered a breakdown due to exhaustion. It also caused a breach in her working relationship with director Joseph De Grasse and his screenwriter/director wife Ida May Park.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/firstonehundred00lowrgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/firstonehundred00lowrgoog/page/n164 150]|quote=dorothy phillips actress.|title=The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen|last=Lowrey|first=Carolyn|date=1920|publisher=Moffat, Yard|language=en}}</ref> thumb|190px|Allen Holubar 1923 thumb|190px|Dorothy Phillips 1919
Once she had rested and recovered, 1918 brought a series of successful films, including ''A Soul for Sale,'' the first film starring her that was directed by her husband, Allen J. Holubar.<ref name=":0" /> Her pictures during this time scored highly with exhibitors and patrons alike.<ref name=":1" /> These successes<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9e1DAQAAMAAJ&q=dorothy+phillips+actress+stage&pg=RA2-PA20|title=Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage|date=1918|publisher=Dramatic Mirror Company|language=en}}</ref> and newfound working relationship between the couple prompted Phillips to leave Universal and in 1920 she and Holubar formed their own company, Allen Holubar Productions.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajXwxJuYd5gC&q=first+national+allen+holubar&pg=PA591|title=American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913_ÑÐ1929|last1=Soister|first1=John T.|last2=Nicolella|first2=Henry|last3=Joyce|first3=Steve|date=2013-01-31|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786487905|language=en}}</ref> Their pictures were released through First National Pictures to further acclaim throughout the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ladailymirror.com/2011/08/17/found-on-ebay-witzel-photograph/|title=Found on EBay – Witzel Photograph|last=lmharnisch|date=2011-08-17|language=en|access-date=2019-01-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXlGAQAAIAAJ&q=first+national+allen+holubar&pg=RA7-PA29|title=Life|date=1922|publisher=Life Magazine, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVgTAAAAIAAJ&q=first+national+allen+holubar&pg=RA7-PT29|title=Photoplay: The Aristocrat of Motion Picture Magazines|date=1923|publisher=Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref>
Phillips' career slowed after 1927, and she mainly appeared in uncredited bit roles for the rest of her career. Her last appearance was in the 1962 western ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance''.
==Marriage and death== Dorothy Phillips was married to actor-director Allen Holubar for 11 years until his death in 1923 from pneumonia, following surgery, at the age of 33.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://img7.newspapers.com/clip/21280578/franklin_film_holubar/|title=Franklin film (Holubar)|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref> They met when she was starring on stage in the Chicago production of "''Every Woman''" as the character of Modesty.<ref name=":0" /> After his death, she did not return to acting until mid-1925. Phillips also died of pneumonia, in 1980, at the age of 90. She is buried with her husband at the Secret Garden section of Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=The+Times+on+March+10%2C+1980+dorothy+phillips&pg=PA588|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|last=Wilson|first=Scott|date=2016-08-19|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476625997|language=en}}</ref>
==Legacy== For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Dorothy Phillips has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6358 Hollywood Blvd.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/dorothy-phillips/|title=Dorothy Phillips|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en|access-date=2019-01-19}}</ref> Phillips and Holubar's 1918 film ''The Heart of Humanity'' was shown at MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art in a 2014 exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/358|title=The Heart of Humanity. 1919. Directed by Allen Holubar {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2019-01-20}}</ref>
==Filmography== [[File:Dorothy Phillips 001.jpg|thumb|200px|Phillips featured in ''Motion Picture Magazine'', 1915]] {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- |rowspan=7|1911 |''His Friend's Wife'' | |Short, Uncredited <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''The Rosary'' |Ruth Martin |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''Her Dad the Constable'' |Mary Perkins |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''The Gordian Knot'' |Marion Walters |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''Saved from the Torrents'' |Katie Carrington |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''Fate's Funny Frolic'' |Alice Trevor |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''A False Suspicion'' |Marion Walters |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=2|1913 |''The Unburied Past'' |Margaret Phillips |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''The Power of Conscience'' |Dora Gordon |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=2|1914 |''In All Things Moderation'' |Mary Graham - the Oldest Daughter |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''Three Men Who Knew'' |Mrs. Watson |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=2|1915 |''The Affair of the Terrace'' |Jasmine Roberts |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''The Trail of the Upper Yukon'' |Marcia |Short <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=5|1916 |''Ambition'' | |'''Lost''' film |- |''The Mark of Cain'' |Doris |Alternative title: ''By Fate's Degree'' <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''If My Country Should Call'' |Margaret Ardrath | '''Incomplete''' film |- |''The Place Beyond the Winds'' |Priscilla Glenn | '''Incomplete''' film |- |''The Price of Silence'' |Helen Urmy | |- |rowspan=10|1917 |''The Piper's Price'' |Amy Hadley | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Hell Morgan's Girl'' | Lola | '''Lost''' film |- | ''The Girl in the Checkered Coat'' | Mary Graham "Flash" Fan | '''Lost''' film |- |''The Flashlight'' |Delice Brixton |Alternative title: ''The Flashlight Girl'' <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''A Doll's House'' |Nora Helmer | '''Lost''' film |- | ''Fires of Rebellion'' | Madge Garvey | '''Lost''' film |- |''The Rescue'' |Anne Wetherall | '''Lost''' film |- |''Pay Me!'' |Marta |Alternative titles: ''Pay Day''<br>''The Vengeance of the West'' <br /> '''Incomplete''' film |- |''Triumph'' |Nell Baxter | '''Incomplete''' film |- | ''Bondage'' |Elinor Crawford | '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=7|1918 |''The Grand Passion'' |Viola Argos | '''Lost''' film |- |''Broadway Love'' |Midge O'Hara | |- |''The Risky Road'' |Marjorie Helmer | |- | ''A Soul for Sale'' |Neila Pendleton | |- |''The Mortgaged Wife'' |Gloria Carter | |- |''The Talk of the Town'' |Genevra French |Directed by Allen Holubar, her husband <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |''The Heart of Humanity'' |Nanette |Directed by Allen Holubar |- |rowspan=3|1919 |''Destiny'' |Mary Burton | '''Lost''' film |- |''The Right to Happiness'' |Sonia & Vivian - Twin Sisters | |- |''Paid in Advance'' |Joan Gray | |- |1920 |''Once to Every Woman'' |Aurora Meredith | '''Lost''' film |- |1921 |''Man, Woman & Marriage'' |Victoria | |- |rowspan=2|1922 |''Hurricane's Gal'' |Lola | |- | ''The World's a Stage'' |Jo Bishop | '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=2|1923 |''Slander the Woman'' |Yvonne Desmarest |'''Lost''' film |- |''The Unknown Purple'' | |Uncredited <br /> '''Lost''' film |- |rowspan=3|1925 |''Every Man's Wife'' |Mrs. Bradin |'''Lost''' film |- | ''The Sporting Chance'' |Patricia Winthrop | '''Lost''' film |- |''Without Mercy'' |Mrs. Enid Grant | |- |rowspan=4|1926 |''The Bar-C Mystery'' |Jane Cortelyou |'''Lost''' film |- |''The Gay Deceiver'' |Claire |'''Lost''' film |- |''Upstage'' |Miss Weaver | |- |''Remember'' |Ruth Pomeroy | '''Incomplete''' film |- |rowspan=3|1927 |''Women Love Diamonds'' |Mrs. Flaherty | |- |''The Broken Gate'' |Aurora Lane | '''Lost''' film |- |''Cradle Snatchers'' |Kitty Ladd |Directed by Howard Hawks <br /> '''Incomplete''' film |- |1930 |''The Jazz Cinderella'' |Mrs. Consuelo Carter |Alternative title: ''Love Is Like That'' |- |1934 |''Now I'll Tell'' |Mrs. Farth |(scenes deleted) |- |1936 |''Thank You, Jeeves!'' |Boy's mother |Uncredited |- |1937 |''Hot Water'' |Nurse |Uncredited |- |1940 |''And One Was Beautiful'' |Gertrude's maid |Uncredited |- |rowspan=2|1942 |''My Favorite Spy'' |Woman at wedding |Uncredited |- |''Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood'' |Old Lady at Radio |Uncredited |- |1943 |''The Cross of Lorraine'' |Village woman |Uncredited |- |1944 |''Mrs. Parkington'' |Leaping Rock Pedestrian |Uncredited |- |1946 |''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' |Nurse |Uncredited |- |1949 |''The Reckless Moment'' |Woman |Uncredited |- |1950 |''Father of the Bride'' |Woman in Nightmare Sequence |Uncredited |- |1951 |''Man in the Saddle'' |Townswoman |Uncredited |- |rowspan=2|1955 |''Violent Saturday'' |Bank customer |Uncredited |- |''How to Be Very, Very Popular'' | |Uncredited |- |1956 |''The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit'' |Mr. Hopkins' maid |Uncredited |- |1962 |''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' |Townswoman |Uncredited |}
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==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} {{Commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0680368}} *{{Find a Grave|7893579}} *[http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/9288/dorothy-phillips Dorothy Phillips] at Virtual History *[http://www.moviecard.com/zamerican/theatre/favorite/fav-phillips.jpg portrait of Dorothy Phillips](moviecard)
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