Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 1987 | The Whales of August | Libby Strong |
| 1986 | As Summers Die | Hannah Loftin |
| 1982 | A Piano for Mrs. Cimino | Esther McDonald Cimino |
| 1980 | The Watcher in the Woods | Mrs. Aylwood |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile (1978) | Mrs. Van Schuyler |
| 1978 | Return From Witch Mountain | Letha |
| 1976 | Burnt Offerings | Aunt Elizabeth |
| 1972 | Lo Scopone Scientifico | The Millionairess |
| 1971 | Bunny O'Hare | Bunny O'Hare |
| 1965 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Charlotte |
| 1965 | The Nanny (1965) | Nanny |
| 1964 | Where Love Has Gone | Mrs. Gerald Hayden |
| 1964 | Dead Ringer (1964) | Margaret DeLorca/Edith Phillips |
| 1962 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) | Miss Baby Jane Hudson |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles | Apple Annie |
| 1959 | The Scapegoat | Countess |
| 1956 | The Catered Affair | Mrs. Agnes Hurley |
| 1956 | Storm Center | Alicia Hull |
| 1955 | The Virgin Queen | Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1952 | The Star (1952) | Margaret Elliot |
| 1951 | Another Man's Poison | Janet Frobisher |
| 1950 | All About Eve | Margo Channing |
| 1949 | Beyond the Forest | Rosa Moline |
| 1948 | June Bride (1948) | Linda Gilman |
| 1946 | A Stolen Life | Kate Bosworth/Patricia Bosworth |
| 1945 | The Corn Is Green (1979) | Miss Lilly Moffat |
| 1944 | Mr. Skeffington | Fanny Trellis Skeffington |
| 1944 | Hollywood Canteen | Bette Davis |
| 1943 | Watch on the Rhine | Sara Muller |
| 1943 | Old Acquaintance | Kit Marlowe |
| 1943 | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Self |
| 1942 | Now, Voyager | Charlotte Vale |
| 1942 | In This Our Life | Stanley Timberlake |
| 1941 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Maggie Cutler |
| 1941 | The Little Foxes | Regina Giddens |
| 1941 | The Great Lie | Maggie Patterson Van Allen |
| 1941 | The Bride Came C.O.D. | Joan Winfield |
| 1940 | The Letter | Leslie Crosbie |
| 1940 | All This and Heaven Too | Henriette Deluzy-Desportes |
| 1939 | Dark Victory | Judith Traherne |
| 1939 | Juarez | Empress Carlotta von Hapsburg |
| 1939 | The Old Maid | Charlotte Lovell |
| 1939 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Queen Elizabeth |
| 1938 | Jezebel (1938) | Julie |
| 1938 | The Sisters | Louise Elliott Medlin |
| 1937 | Kid Galahad | Louise "Fluff" Phillips |
| 1937 | It's Love I'm After | Joyce Arden |
| 1937 | Marked Woman | Mary Dwight Strauber |
| 1937 | That Certain Woman | Mary Donnell |
| 1936 | The Petrified Forest | Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple |
| 1936 | The Golden Arrow | Daisy Appleby |
| 1936 | Satan Met a Lady | Valerie Purvis |
| 1935 | Bordertown | Mrs. Marie Roark |
| 1935 | Dangerous (1935) | Joyce Heath |
| 1935 | Front Page Woman | Ellen Garfield |
| 1935 | The Girl From 10th Avenue | Miriam A. Brady |
| 1935 | Special Agent | Julie |
| 1934 | Fog Over Frisco | Arlene Bradford |
| 1934 | Of Human Bondage (1934) | Mildred Rogers |
| 1934 | The Big Shakedown | Norma Nelson |
| 1934 | Fashions of 1934 | Lynn Mason |
| 1934 | Housewife | Patricia Berkeley |
| 1934 | Jimmy the Gent | Miss Joan Martin |
| 1933 | 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | Fay Wilson |
| 1933 | Bureau of Missing Persons | Norma Roberts |
| 1933 | Ex-Lady | Helen Bauer |
| 1933 | Parachute Jumper | Patricia "Alabama" Brent |
| 1933 | The Working Man | Jenny |
| 1932 | Three on a Match | Ruth Wescott |
| 1932 | Cabin in the Cotton | Madge Norwood |
| 1932 | The Man Who Played God | Grace Blair |
| 1932 | Hell's House | Peggy Gardner |
| 1932 | The Menace | Peggy Lowell |
| 1932 | So Big | Miss Dallas O'Mara |
| 1931 | Waterloo Bridge (1931) | Janet Cronin |
| 1931 | Bad Sister | Laura Madison |
