Fay Baker

Fay Baker

Birth : 1917-01-31, New York City, New York, U.S.

Death : 1987-12-08

History

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Fay Baker (January 31, 1917 — December 8, 1987) was an American actress on the stage, film and TV in supporting roles, and a successful author under the pen name Beth Holmes. Her novel, The Whipping Boy, made the Los Angeles Times bestseller list in 1978. Baker also published, under her own name, an account of her experiences battling breast cancer, entitled My Darling, Darling Doctors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fay Baker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Fay Baker

Movies

The Slender Thread
Telephone Supervisor (uncredited)
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?
Sorority Girl
Mrs. Tanner
A poor-little-rich-girl feels alienated by her mother and enacts a string of revenges on her fellow pupils at a girls' boarding school. However, she is outcast when one of her stunts nearly drives a girl to suicide.
She Devil
Evelyn Kendall
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
Don't Knock The Rock
Arlene MacLaine
Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they consider him and his music a negative influence on the youth. But with the help of disc jockey/publicist Alan Freed and fellow artists (including Bill Haley and the Comets and Little Richard), they hope to convince everyone that rock and roll is not as dangerous as the adults think.
I Died a Thousand Times
Woman in Tropico Lobby (uncredited)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
Invaders from Mars
Mrs. Wilson
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
The Star
Faith
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but continues to desire a comeback.
Deadline - U.S.A.
Alice Garrison Courtney
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
Reunion in Reno
Miss Pearson
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
The House on Telegraph Hill
Margaret
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
The Company She Keeps
Tilly Thompson
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.
Double Deal
Lilly Sebastian
An oil engineer surrounded by foul play helps an heiress bring in a well.
Father of the Bride
Miss Bellamy (uncredited)
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Chain Lightning
Mrs. Willis
Former World War II flying ace Matt Brennan takes a position as a test pilot for a commercial aircraft corporation and bumps into his old girlfriend, Jo Holloway, who now works as a receptionist for the company.
Tell It to the Judge
Valerie Hobson
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her divorce makes her unfit for the job. This evolves into situations, happening in Florida, New England, Washington D.C., and the Adirondacks, such as the misunderstood husband trying to win back his wife, and the misunderstood wife trying to make her husband jealous, and one case of mistaken identity after another, after another.
Black Midnight
Martha Baxter
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him. The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures, Black Midnight was directed by Oscar “Budd” Boetticher, whose seven Westerns with Randolph Scott are considered classics of the genre.
Manhattan Angel
Vi Langdon
Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan.
No Minor Vices
Mrs. Felton (uncredited)
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that he introduces rich attractive painter Octavio Quaglini to his office and home. Quaglini is no respecter of convention, and April Ashwell is extremely attractive.
The Gentleman from Nowhere
Catherine Ashton
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.
Trapped by Boston Blackie
Margie O'Reilly, alias Sandra Doray
Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Notorious
Ethel
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.