
Acting
Kai Emil Holm var søn af snedkermester Carl Andreas Holm (død 1929) og hustru Margrethe, født Sløk (død 1933). Han blev født i og voksede op i Lemvig og blev udlært som sadelmager og tapetserer i 1921, inden han i 1922 søgte ind på Det Kongelige Teaters elevskole, hvorfra han udgik i 1924. Han debuterede i 1924 i rollen som Gamle Chris i stykket "Anna Christie" på Betty Nansens Teatret, som han var tilknyttet 1923-1925. Den første betydelige rolle var som snedker Engstrand i "Gengangere". Han har spillet et omfattende klassiker-repertoire. I årene 1925-26 var han knyttet til Svend Methlings Skole- og Folkescene i Casinos lille Teater og optrådte senere bl.a. på Det ny Teater, Folketeatret Aarhus Teater og Det Kongelige Teater. Han havde evnen til at skabe små mesterværker ud af selv beskedne roller (Mustapha, Urtekræmmeren og Bødlen i "Aladdin"). Han spillede bl.a. Per Degn i "Erasmus Montanus", Birkedommer Krans i "Eventyr på fodrejsen", Prokurator Falsmaal i "Gulddåsen" og titelrollerne i "Jeppe på bjerget" og "Den politiske Kandestøber". Sammen med Thomas P. Hejle var han stifter af Skolescenens Bio og var 1931-1947 medleder af Dansk Skolescene. Han var leder af Dansk Kultursamfunds turnéer i Sønderjylland fra 1933 og i årene 1937-1950 direktør for Dansk Kulturfilms Biograf - Toftegaards Bio. Kai Holm var direktør for Friluftsteatret på Bellahøj 1939 og 1940 og fra 1950-1970 direktør for World Cinema Biografen i Cirkusbygningen. Han var formand for Dansk Skuespiller Forbund 1947-1955, formand for Dansk Kulturfilm 1957-1970 og i en årrække formand for Nordisk Skuespillerråd. Desuden var han medlem af Teaterrådet 1947-1955 og af Radiorådets programudvalg 1956-1970, ligesom han var formand for Olaf Poulsens Mindefond. Han debuterede på film i 1923 og medvirkede i flere Fy og Bi Film. I stumfilmen "Tordenstenene" fra 1927 spiller han en arbejdsmand. Han medvirkede i endnu 5 stumfilm, inden han i 1931 dukkede op i dansk films første tonefilm "Præsten i Vejlby", hvor han spillede den usympatiske Niels Bruus. I de næste 45 år spillede han med i omkring 40 film - oftest i små og ikke særlig rare roller. Den første egentlige hovedrolle fik han i sin allersidste film fra 1979 "Drømme støjer ikke, når de dør". Den fik han til gengæld også en Bodil for. På TV-Teatret spillede han bl.a. i "Natteherberget" og Kai Holm medvirkede utallige gange i radioens hørespil og som oplæser af jyske digtere. Han udgav 12 bøger, deriblandt tre erindringsbind og en række børnebøger, bl.a. "En limfjordsdreng" i 1968. I 1962 modtog han Steen Steen Blicher-prisen og blev i 1964 æresmedlem af Dansk Skuespillerforbund. Han blev Ridder af Dannebrog i 1948 og i 1954 ridder af norsk Olavsorden og Svensk Vasaorden. Den 25. december 1925 blev han i Fjaltring gift med Jenny Iversen (03-11-1898 - 26-01-1975)

Hans and Elinor are in love, but have to meet clandestinely to avoid the keen eyes of the headmistress at the home for girls where Elinor lives. When they are discovered, they seek refuge in a Chinese gazebo used by the vagabonds Pat and Patachon as a cheap summer residence. However, the two vagabonds quickly vacate the premises to let the young couple stay there. As a thank you, Hans, who is a sailor, enrols Long and Short as part of the crew on his rich uncle’s boat and invites the entire girls’ institute and its headmistress on a sailing trip. In disguise, Hans hopes to spend some time with Elinor, but once again they fail to deceive the headmistress. Long and Short now come upon the idea of hiring a brickworks, whose owner turns out to be Elinor’s uncle. But mysterious things happen at the factory, which does not make entirely ordinary bricks, and Long and Short find themselves caught up in yet another heady drama. (stumfilm.dk)

Bank director L.W. Jacobsen resides in a small provincial town. He is not particularly interested in his wife, Elsebeth, but rather in teacher and city council member Miss Mortensen. Thorsen, the town's manufacturer, is a member of the same city council group as Jacobsen. Then Don Olsen comes to town. Olsen is not interested in the upper class, but rather in people. By chance, Thorsen and Olsen meet and soon become drinking buddies. Thorsen drags the milkman's horse home to his apartment in the middle of the night. The scandal is a reality. Thorsen wants to flee, but with Olsen's help, he instead woos the townspeople and Miss Mortensen under the motto "Make good times better."

The con artist Prince Fingernem is a regular customer of the waitresses Mona Lisa and young Vicky at the Trinidad tavern – a small, damp paradise in Nyhavn. But paradise also has a snake, of course, Mr. Schwartz, who has big plans for the area.

A young, beautiful girl arrives at Krogerød Kro on Mols and shocks the innkeeper by telling him that he is her father. At the same time, the inn is about to lose its liquor license, threatening its very existence. The innkeeper tells the girl that both he and his friend from his military days have paid child support to her, as no one knew which of them was her real father.

Sven Gjeholm is a writer of sex books. His wife finds this a bit odd, considering he's not really into sex. Since Sven can't get any peace to write his books because of journalists and other curious folks who want to see how a sex writer lives, he decides to move to the small Norwegian town of Mårböosen. However, the town's residents have already heard about Sven and his writing, and he is not welcomed with open arms. Soon, however, the town's residents realize that Sven attracts a lot of tourists, and when Sven decides to flee once again, good advice is hard to come by. Sven has no choice but to stay in town.

Two young skippers, Hans Tønnesen and Poul Nielsen, have a small cargo ship that transports freight from Copenhagen to the provinces. Poul and Hans are in love with the same girl, Margit, who is the daughter of master baker Bonnekamp. However, Margit chooses Poul. On their wedding night, Hans cannot sleep. He sits in his boat and hears a splash in the water. He jumps into the water and rescues a young girl, Kristiane, from drowning. She is distraught because she is pregnant and does not dare tell her parents. Hans offers to marry her and acknowledge paternity, but on the way to his own wedding, his engine stalls.

In the vicinity of Copenhagen, a group of pensioners live in a very large villa. The owner, Doctor Bach, has invited a colleague, the young master Peter Park , to visit him. They have a common interest that they could discuss during his stay. When he arrives, it is at a most inconvenient time. He is greeted by the doctor's sister, the almost deaf Camilla, who does not understand much of what is going on around her. The doctor has completely forgotten that he invited Park, but he settles him into the villa nonetheless. Here, Park meets the doctor's granddaughter, the young and beautiful Lise Bach (Henriette Normann), to whom he is immediately attracted. When Lise asks her grandfather if he is going out again, the doctor explains that he is going to the cinema with his good friend Friis.

Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.

Christmas at an old rectory in the countryside – it's Christmas! And the three student brothers, "Gamle", "Corpus Juris" and Nicolai, are delighted to receive an invitation to spend Christmas with the priest in Nøddebo. The fact that there are also a couple of young daughters in the rectory naturally makes it all even more enjoyable. It's the first time Nicolai has gone along, so he knows nothing about his older brothers' infatuation with the two girls and falls head over heels for them, assuming that they can't handle his charm either. Things don't quite go his way now, because he finds himself pursued everywhere by the anything but pretty Maldrubine, whose warmest interest is the pleasures of the table.

The strict customs regulations have brought about a special type of lawbreaker - smugglers! They abound in all countries, and even in our relatively peaceful country, there are more of them than one would think. The great film director Stenbuk reads sensational articles about a major smuggling affair, and he sends a manuscript back to two writers with the message that if they do not come up with a smuggling-themed manuscript within eight days, they can run and chicken.
