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person_profile-Fay Bainter

Fay Bainter Died at age: 74

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Fay Bainter

Date of Birth:

Dec 07, 1893

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 16, 1968

Biography of

Fay Bainter

    Fay Okell Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968) was an American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. MGM persuaded her to try films and her movie debut was in This Side of Heaven (February 1934), the same year she appeared in Dodsworth on Broadway and in the film It Happened One Day (July 1934). Bainter quickly achieved success, and in 1938 she became the first performer nominated in the same year for both the Academy Award for Best Actress, for White Banners (1938), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Jezebel (1938), winning for the latter. Since then, only nine other actors have won dual nominations in a single year. In 1940 she played Mrs. Gibbs in the film production of the Thornton Wilder play Our Town. In 1945 she played Melissa Frake in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical State Fair. She was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Children's Hour (1961). Finally, in 1962, Fay appeared as a guest star on The Donna Reed Show.

    She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

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Filmography of

Fay Bainter

Found 41 Movies in total

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

... 1988

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1983

The Children's Hour

Amelia Tilford ( Actor )

... 1961

The President's Lady

Mrs. Donaldson ( Actor )

... 1953

Close to My Heart

Mrs. Morrow ( Actor )

... 1951

June Bride

Paula Winthrop ( Actor )

... 1948

Give My Regards to Broadway

Fay Norwick ( Actor )

... 1948

... 1947

Deep Valley

Ellie Saul ( Actor )

... 1947

The Virginian

Mrs. Taylor ( Actor )

... 1946

The Kid from Brooklyn

Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne ( Actor )

... 1946

State Fair

Melissa Frake ( Actor )

... 1945

3 Is a Family

Frances Whittaker ( Actor )

... 1944

Dark Waters

Aunt Emily ( Actor )

... 1944

The Heavenly Body

Margaret Sibyll ( Actor )

... 1944

Cry 'Havoc'

Captain Marsh ( Actor )

... 1943

Salute to the Marines

Jennie Bailey ( Actor )

... 1943

Presenting Lily Mars

Mrs. Thornway ( Actor )

... 1943

The Human Comedy

Mrs. Macauley ( Actor )

... 1943

Journey for Margaret

Trudy Strauss ( Actor )

... 1942

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Mrs. Elvira Wiggs ( Actor )

... 1942

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Stella Livingston Hadley ( Actor )

... 1942

Woman of the Year

Ellen Whitcomb ( Actor )

... 1942

Babes on Broadway

Miss Jones ( Actor )

... 1941

Maryland

Charlotte Danfield ( Actor )

... 1940

A Bill of Divorcement

Margaret "Meg" Fairfield ( Actor )

... 1940

Our Town

Mrs Gibbs ( Actor )

... 1940

Young Tom Edison

Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison ( Actor )

... 1940

Daughters Courageous

Nancy 'Nan' Masters ( Actor )

... 1939

The Lady and the Mob

Hattie Leonard ( Actor )

... 1939

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Ann Murray ( Actor )

... 1939

The Shining Hour

Hannah Linden ( Actor )

... 1938

The Arkansas Traveler

Mrs. Martha Allen ( Actor )

... 1938

Mother Carey's Chickens

Mrs. Margaret Carey ( Actor )

... 1938

White Banners

Hannah ( Actor )

... 1938

Jezebel

Aunt Belle Massey ( Actor )

... 1938

Make Way for Tomorrow

Anita Cooper ( Actor )

... 1937

The Soldier and the Lady

Strogoff's Mother ( Actor )

... 1937

Quality Street

Susan Throssel ( Actor )

... 1937

This Side of Heaven

Francene Turner ( Actor )

... 1934