Fay Bainter
15 titles
Filmography
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Salute to the Marines
(1943)A WWII flag-waver: a Marine lifer (Wallace Beery) retires without having seen combat action, then proves his Semper Fi mettle as a civilian in the Philippines. Filmed in Technicolor®.

June Bride
(1948)Magazine editor Linda Gilman sends her aide and former fiancé Carey Jackson to cover a wedding for the June issue. She meddles to create a better story, while Jackson urges the couple to elope. Amid their clash, Gilman realizes she still loves him.

Presenting Lily Mars
(1943)Lily just knows she has the talent to light up the Great White Way, so when a big Broadway producer visits her hometown, she expends all the candlepower of her charisma to impress him.
Young Tom Edison
(1940)Mickey Rooney stars as the boy who would become one of the greatest inventors of the modern era--a Young Tom Edison. Edison (Rooney) received only three months of formal education: the precocious boy's curiosity was too disruptive for the one-room schoolhouse in his hometown. But his parents encouraged the voracious reader, who'd read Newton's Principia by the time he was twelve. At an early age, Edison also lost most of his ability to hear, which only helped him to better focus his concentration. Finding work as a "brass pounder," an operator in the new, cutting-edge telegraph industry during the United States Civil War, Edison moonlights on his own inventions--an automatic telegraph repeater, the light bulb, the phonograph--that will change the world.

Woman of the Year
(1942)Oscar-winners Spencer Tracy ("Pat and Mike," "Adam's Rib") and Katharine Hepburn ("The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen") make their first feature film appearance together in this classic Oscar-winning romantic comedy about a marriage between two opposites -- a sophisticated political columnist and a sports writer -- whose combative union is held together with their love for each other.

Our Town
(1940)Two families traverse love, loss, and time, encapsulating the shared path of human existence through simple yet profound moments of life.
Close to My Heart
(1951)Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend") and Gene Tierney ("The Razor's Edge") are a childless couple who adopt a baby, only to discover that its father was a murderer. This sentimental tale has a happy ending as nurture proves more important than nature.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(1947)The longing to escape his tedious life leads a daydreaming magazine proofreader on a hero’s journey to save a damsel in distress from jewel thieves.
The President's Lady
(1953)Andrew Jackson attempts to prove that his wife is innocent of scandalous charges. Romance from pages of American history.

Quality Street
(1937)Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn stars as a woman on the verge of becoming a spinster who becomes trapped by her own elaborate ruse to win the heart of the man she loves in Quality Street. Phoebe Throssel (Hepburn) was heartbroken when Dr. Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone) left her to fight the army of Napoleon, and Phoebe has remained in love and single waiting for him. But when Dr. Brown returns after ten years and inadvertently humiliates her with a comment on her appearance, Phoebe changes her hair and buys a new gown. And when Dr. Brown then mistakes Phoebe for her younger niece, Livvy, she does not correct him and proceeds to woo the man she loves in her new identity. But when Dr. Brown confesses to 'Livvy' that he loves Phoebe, she must find a way to tell the doctor the truth.

The Human Comedy
(1943)A small-town, telegraph messenger boy comes of age during World War II, delivering ordinary notes and heartbreaking death notices.

The Children's Hour
(1961)In this provocatively daring film, an attention-seeking schoolgirl vengefully spreads rumors that two of her teachers are lesbian lovers.

The Soldier and the Lady
(1937)This Jules Verne epic action-adventure follows a courageous courier as he struggles to deliver vital information to Russian troops.

State Fair
(1945)A farming family attends the Iowa State Fair, two of the children meeting new flames, while the parents aim to win prizes for their produce.

Jezebel
(1938)Bette Davis stars in an Academy Award-winning role as the beautiful,charming, ruthless Southern belle who scandalizes New Orleanssociety--destroying the men who love her...