On The Discovery of Phillip Holmes as 'The Man In The Photos'

Watching the 1931 Film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel, AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, this morning.....which, oddly, I'd never seen before, although I'd read its source novel during college days and had seen the Monty Cliff/Elizabeth Taylor/Shelly WInters 1951 adaptation, A PLACE IN THE SUN....I 'froze framed' on Phillips Holmes, an actor that died in a WW2 'mid-air' plane crash.....and realized that I had not one, but two old publicity photos of Holmes......I had imagined that the 'signature' at the lower left corner of one was The Photographer.....never realizing that these were photos of Phillips Holmes....the actor.... Montgomery Cliff remains the 'righteous' Clyde Griffiths....thanks to George Stevens, who directed the '51 Movie.......Although, I'd rather have an autographed photo of the 1931 film's director, Josef von Sternberg.... I was just imagining what 'it' would have 'looked like' to see Liz and Phillips, together....immeshing their bottom 'double' lashes in lustful abandonment..... or Sylvia Sydney and Shelly Winters in a 'whining' competition.....