Fay Holden


Actor
Fay Holden

About

Also Known As
Dorothy Fay Hammerton, Gaby Fay
Birth Place
Birmingham, England, GB
Born
September 26, 1893
Died
June 23, 1973

Family & Companions

David Clyde
Husband
Actor. Brother of comedian Andy Clyde.

Biography

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
Mother [Emily] Hardy
The Big Hangover (1950)
Martha Belney
Samson and Delilah (1950)
Hazelelponit
Whispering Smith (1949)
Emmy Dansing
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1947)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Little Miss Big (1946)
Mary Jane Baxter
Canyon Passage (1946)
Mrs. Overmire
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Mrs. Regan
I'll Wait for You (1941)
Mrs. Miller
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Mrs. Kahly
Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Mrs. Pulham
Washington Melodrama (1941)
Mrs. Claymore
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Bitter Sweet (1940)
Mrs. Millick
The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Mrs. Hardy
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Sergeant Madden (1939)
Mary Madden
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Hold That Kiss (1938)
Mrs. Evans
Love Is a Headache (1938)
Mary
Sweethearts (1938)
Hannah
Test Pilot (1938)
Saleslady
Souls at Sea (1937)
Mrs. Martin
King of Gamblers (1937)
Nurse
You're Only Young Once (1937)
Mrs. [Emily] Hardy
Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Mother Teresa
Exclusive (1937)
Mrs. Swain
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Natalie
Double or Nothing (1937)
Martha Sewell Clark
Guns of the Pecos (1937)
Aunt Carrie
The Accusing Finger (1936)
Little old lady
Wives Never Know (1936)
Mrs. Gossamer
Polo Joe (1936)
Aunt Minnie
I Married a Doctor (1936)
Ella Stowbody
The White Angel (1936)
Queen Victoria
The Pace That Kills (1935)

Cast (Short)

Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) (1939)
Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
Herself

Life Events

Photo Collections

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary - Publicity Stills
Here are a few publicity stills from MGM's Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941), starring Mickey Rooney. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

Videos

Movie Clip

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) -- (Movie Clip) There's A General Housework Girl The Hardy family (Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker as Marian and Mickey Rooney as Andy) travels from Carmel (somewhere in the midwest…) to New York, on the judge’s legal business, where hometown friend Betsy (Judy Garland) has arranged lodging, early in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 1940.
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) -- (Movie Clip) My Morning Ablutions Opening finds star Mickey Rooney in bed with a magazine featuring Diana Lewis as his faraway crush, the other title character, masking his obsession behind botany, his mom and aunt Milly (Fay Holden, Sara Haden), not yet catching on, in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 1940.
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) -- (Movie Clip) How Are The Ancient Greeks Involved? Andy (Mickey Rooney) explains errors in financing for his high school graduation to his dad the judge (Lewis Stone), with visits from Beezy and Jimmy (George Breakston, Gene Reynolds) and girlfriend Polly (Ann Rutherford), in the 10th film in MGM’s series, Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary, 1941.
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) -- (Movie Clip) He's Not My Type Huffy girlfriend Polly (Ann Rutherford) intrudes while class president Andy (Mickey Rooney) is innocently trying out lines for the graduation pageant with Kathryn (Kathryn Grayson, in her movie debut), who’s volunteered as his secretary in MGM’s Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary, 1941.
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Voci Di Primavera Andy (Mickey Rooney) is at the window while Kathryn (Grayson, in her MGM debut) and brother Harry (Todd Karns) undertake a song to cheer up their devoted, educated but unlucky widowed dad (Ian Hunter), a compositon by Gaetano Donizetti, in Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary, 1941.
Judge Hardy And Son (1939) -- (Movie Clip) There'd Be Fewer Divorces Dining at the Hardy household, the judge (Lewis Stone) presiding, with Andy (Mickey Rooney), sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) and mother (Fay Holden), with her visiting sister Aunt Milly (Sara Haden), preparing to travel to visit her parents, in MGM’s Judge Hardy And Son, 1939.
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Running On A Rim Mother (Fay Holden) mentions to Andy (Mickey Rooney), that she thinks the judge (Lewis Stone) might be slightly cracked, confirmed when he turns up with an odd piece of evidence, just as his son intends to seek an unusual favor, in the 13th film in MGM’s series, Andy Hardy’s Double Life, 1942.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) -- (Movie Clip) In National Emergency Early on, Andy (Mickey Rooney), rightly regarding himself as an athlete, is unhappy when he finds his usual girlfriend Polly (Ann Rutherford) has taken up with a hunky visiting Navy Olympian (Robert Kent), in MGM's Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, 1939.
Blossoms In The Dust -- (Movie Clip) Do I Look Like A Hussy? After a prologue establishing turn-of-the century Wisconsin, first the parents (Fay Holden, Samuel S. Hinds) then the heroine Edna (Greer Garson) with a glorious technicolor entrance, joining sister Charlotte (Marsha Hunt), in MGM's glossy bio-pic Blossoms In The Dust 1941.

Companions

David Clyde
Husband
Actor. Brother of comedian Andy Clyde.

Bibliography