Fay Bainter

Filmography

Fay Bainter - filmography

The Children's Hour on DVD (1961)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner
Director: William Wyler
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Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When student Karen Balkin is punished for one of her many misdeeds, the mean-spirited youngster rushes to her wealthy aunt Fay Bainter, ..read more »

67% from 1,320 member

The President's Lady (1953)
Starring: Whitfield Connor, Fay Bainter, Carl Betz
Director: Henry Levin
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The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

10% from 2 members
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Starring: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Virginia Mayo
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
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Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered mouse who spends his time imagining himself as a number of daredevil heroes - an RAF pilot, a seafaring swashbuckler, a riverboat gambler. But then Walter meets a ravishing blonde, who draws him into a real-life adventure involving a band of cut-throats and a cache of ..read more »

72% from 38 members
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Woman of the Year on DVD (1942)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter
Director: George Stevens
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This is a story about a sports journalist and a female politician, and their marriage.

72% from 529 members

Our Town on DVD (1940)
Starring: William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter
Director: Sam Wood
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Touching film version of Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize winning play that explores the love, humour and pain in the lives of two families in the woodsy New Hampshire town, Grovers Corners. William Holden and Martha Scott succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying and bearing a ..read more »

47% from 46 members

Jezebel (1938)
Starring: Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay
Director: William Wyler
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Set in the antebellum South, William Wyler's JEZEBEL centres on high society beauty Julie Marsden. Julie first arrives on horseback, then enters her home flamboyantly hooking the long flowing train of her dress with her riding crop and hoisting it to her shoulders. Julie is not just high-spirited-..read more »

77% from 50 members
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Quality Street on DVD (1937)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore
Director: George Stevens
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At the beginning of the Napoleonic wars; Phoebe Throssel waits patiently for Dr Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone, Phantom Lady) to propose marriage. She's devastated when he chooses to fight for king and country instead.Ten long years later, he returns to find Phoebe is - apparently - an old maid. ..read more »

54% from 17 members

Make Way for Tomorrow - Blu-ray (1937)
Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Director: Leo McCarey
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Of Make Way for Tomorrow, Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: "Oh my God that's the saddest movie ever made." Long unavailable for home viewing, Leo McCarey's personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair to Remember) is sad, yes, but it also stands as ..read more »

77% from 109 members

Make Way For Tomorrow on DVD (1937)
Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Director: Leo McCarey
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he ..read more »

75% from 63 members

Tracy & Hepburn - Signature Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter
Director: George Cukor, George Stevens
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The work of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy has attracted a huge global audience of fans, who continue to rejoice in their collective screen appearances. Among the films on offer in this collection are WOMAN OF THE YEAR, PAT AND MIKE, ADAM'S RIB

78% from 11 members

The Children's Hour - 3.5 stars
The President's Lady - 0.5 stars
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 3.5 stars
Woman of the Year - 3.5 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars

The President's Lady - 0.5 stars
Our Town - 2.5 stars
Quality Street - 2.5 stars
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - 3.5 stars
Jezebel - 4.0 stars

Beulah Bondi - 5 times - show films
Katharine Hepburn - 3 times - show films
Martha Scott - 3 times - show films
William Holden - 3 times - show films
Faye Bainter - 3 times - show films

Sam Wood - 3 times - show films
George Stevens - 3 times - show films
Leo McCarey - 2 times - show films
William Wyler - 2 times - show films
Norman Z. McLeod - 1 times - show films