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Fay Baker (January 31, 1917 — December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress, 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.
Fay Schwager's career began in New York with roles on Broadway in the early 1940s. Changing her surname to "Baker" at some point, she began her career on stage in 1944 in Another Love Story at New York's Fulton Theatre. She... MORE
Fay Baker (January 31, 1917 — December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress, 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.
Fay Schwager's career began in New York with roles on Broadway in the early 1940s. Changing her surname to "Baker" at some point, she began her career on stage in 1944 in Another Love Story at New York's Fulton Theatre. She was "discovered" by Alfred Hitchcock in 1946 and given the role of Ethel in Notorious. While the part was minor, she told her daughter that Hitchcock made her stay on the set for the entire film shoot. The director felt that since he was paying her salary, she should be standing by at all times. She claimed she had had a larger role in Notorious, but most of her work ended up on the cutting room floor.
Baker remained in Hollywood for nearly two decades, acting in two dozen films with star billing in The House on Telegraph Hill (1950). During her California years, she also appeared frequently on TV. LESS
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