
Acting
Jesslyn Fax
Born 1893-01-02 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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)
Acting credits
8.3A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Rear Window
1954
8.0Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
North by Northwest
1959
7.4A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
An Affair to Remember
1957
6.2A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Doctor Dolittle
1967
7.1Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
The Music Man
1962
7.2One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
8.0Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
The Wayward Girl
1957
5.1In 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.
4 for Texas
1963
6.5A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Scared Stiff
1953
6.7Luther 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.
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
1966
6.7Mary 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.
The Trouble with Angels
1966
7.0A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
Desk Set
1957
6.5A 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.
The Family Jewels
1965
6.3An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
The Best of Everything
1959
6.0Ornithologist 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.
The Love God?
1969
6.3Henry J. Tyroon 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, in the end, she falls for his charm.
The Wheeler Dealers
1963
6.0In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend
1957
5.4An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises himself as three different men to gauge their trust and hopefully cure them so that his fiancee can go with him.
Three on a Couch
1966
5.9An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960
5.9The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
A Very Special Favor
1965
4.6Two 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.
How to Be Very, Very Popular
1955
5.9An 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.
The Man Who Died Twice
1958
6.6"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.
The Spy in the Green Hat
1967
5.3Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
Blue Denim
1959