Jesslyn Fax
Birth : 1893-01-02, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Death : 1975-02-16
History
Jesslyn Fax (January 4, 1893 – February 16, 1975) was an Canadian-American actress. She is known for playing the elderly Miss Hearing Aid in Rear Window (1954)
Miss Love
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.
Old Woman (uncredited)
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Mrs. Feinberg
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
Retirement Home Resident
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
Mrs. Hutchinson
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
Airline Passenger
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
Mildred
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Secretary (uncredited)
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Mrs. Hitchcock
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
Avis Grubb
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Old Lady (uncredited)
An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Aunt (uncredited)
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Aunt Margaret
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Sally Hemphill
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
Older Prisoner (uncredited)
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
Mrs. Hewitt (uncredited)
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
Terry's Landlady (uncredited)
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Music Teacher
Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.
Miss Hearing Aid (uncredited)
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
The Motel Manageress
When a woman is forced by a murderer to drive him to safety, she deliberately passes up chances to escape.