Fay Bainter
Acting • Born 1893-12-07 – Died 1968-04-16
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fay Bainter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
64 credits
Jezebel
Movie • 1938
Aunt Belle Massey
The Children's Hour
Movie • 1961
Amelia Tilford
Woman of the Year
Movie • 1942
Ellen Whitcomb
Our Town
Movie • 1940
Mrs Gibbs
The Heavenly Body
Movie • 1944
Margaret Sibyll
State Fair
Movie • 1945
Melissa Frake
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie • 1947
Eunice Mitty
Make Way for Tomorrow
Movie • 1937
Anita Cooper
Dark Waters
Movie • 1944
Aunt Emily
Presenting Lily Mars
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Thornway
Journey for Margaret
Movie • 1942
Trudy Strauss
Babes on Broadway
Movie • 1941
Miss Jones
Deep Valley
Movie • 1947
Ellie Saul
The Soldier and the Lady
Movie • 1937
Strogoff's Mother
The Human Comedy
Movie • 1943
Mrs. Macauley
Quality Street
Movie • 1937
Susan Throssel
Cry 'Havoc'
Movie • 1943
Captain Marsh
Young Tom Edison
Movie • 1940
Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
Salute to the Marines
Movie • 1943
Jennie Bailey
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Movie • 1942
Stella Livingston Hadley
The President's Lady
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Donaldson
A Bill of Divorcement
Movie • 1940
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
White Banners
Movie • 1938
Hannah
June Bride
Movie • 1948
Paula Winthrop
The Kid from Brooklyn
Movie • 1946
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
The Shining Hour
Movie • 1938
Hannah Linden
Daughters Courageous
Movie • 1939
Nancy 'Nan' Masters
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
3 Is a Family
Movie • 1944
Frances Whittaker
Maryland
Movie • 1940
Charlotte Danfield
Mother Carey's Chickens
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Margaret Carey
The Lady and the Mob
Movie • 1939
Hattie Leonard
Close to My Heart
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Morrow
The Arkansas Traveler
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Martha Allen
Give My Regards to Broadway
Movie • 1948
Fay Norwick
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Movie • 1939
Ann Murray
This Side of Heaven
Movie • 1934
Francene Turner
The Virginian
Movie • 1946
Mrs. Taylor
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Movie • 1942
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Movie • 1939
Ellen Carter
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie • 1940
Self
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Movie • 1942
Emmy Jones
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Movie • 1939
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Aunt Valerie
Thriller
TV • 1960
Geraldine Redfern
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Innkeeper's Wife
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Sister Josephine
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Suspense
TV • 1949
Natalie MacLaird
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Sister Mike
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Jenny
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Annie Keeney
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mrs. Grier
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Mrs. Hughes
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Bella Fleace
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Studio One
TV • 1948
Mrs. Morgan
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Mary Caulfield