7 Movies Starring Fay Bainter

Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1937-10-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (4489 Reviews)

Director:

Leo McCarey

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Vièa Delmar (screen play)

Josephine Lawrence (based on a novel by)

Helen Leary (play)

Nolan Leary (play)

Fullplot:

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?

Mother Carey's Chickens

Mother Carey's Chickens

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-07-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

82 min

Rated:

Approved

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (131 Reviews)

Director:

Rowland V. Lee

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Kate Douglas Wiggin (novel)

Kate Douglas Wiggin (play)

Rachel Crothers (play)

S.K. Lauren (screenplay)

Gertrude Purcell (screenplay)

Fullplot:

White Banners

White Banners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-06-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

Approved

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (296 Reviews)

Director:

Edmund Goulding

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Lloyd C. Douglas (by)

Lenore J. Coffee (screenplay)

Cameron Rogers (screenplay)

Abem Finkel (screenplay)

Lloyd C. Douglas (from: the Cosmopolitan Magazine story by)

Fullplot:

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

Our Town

Our Town

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1940-05-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1581 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Wood

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Thornton Wilder (play)

Thornton Wilder (screenplay)

Frank Craven (screenplay)

Harry Chandlee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.

Journey for Margaret

Journey for Margaret

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1942-12-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

81 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (515 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

David Hertz (screen play)

William Ludwig (screen play)

William L. White (based upon the book by)

Fullplot:

An American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Outraged, they visit a shelter for homeless children where they fall in love with orphans Margaret and her brother Peter. They eventaully adopt the children and bring them to America.

Woman of the Year

Woman of the Year

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1942-01-19

Languages:

English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Greek

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (6419 Reviews)

Director:

George Stevens

Cast:

Writer:

Ring Lardner Jr. (original screen play)

Michael Kanin (original screen play)

Fullplot:

Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But Tess is a very active woman and one of the most famous feminists in the country; she is even elected as "the woman of the year." Being busy all the time, she forgets how to really be a woman and Sam begins to feel neglected.

June Bride

June Bride

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-10-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (997 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Ranald MacDougall (screenplay)

Eileen Tighe (play)

Graeme Lorimer (play)

Fullplot:

Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly between Carey and Linda as they go to Indiana to cover the Brinker family's "typical American wedding." But triangles lurk beneath the surface of the impending nuptials. Can Carey rescue a story (and his job) out of the wreckage? Can all the sundered hearts be re-united?

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