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Fay Bainter

Acting

Born December 7, 1893 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died April 16, 1968

Also known as Fay Okell Bainter

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

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 1939
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 1962 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Actress · 1939 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Supporting Actress · 1939 · nominated

Filmography26 titles

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962as Mary Caulfield

The Children's Hour

1961as Amelia Tilford

Make Way for Tomorrow

1937as Anita Cooper

The Soldier and the Lady

1937as Strogoff's Mother

Salute to the Marines

1943as Jennie Bailey

June Bride

1948as Paula Winthrop

Jezebel

1938as Aunt Belle Massey

The President's Lady

1953as Mrs. Donaldson

Woman of the Year

1942as Ellen Whitcomb

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948as Self

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947as Mrs. Mitty

Thriller

1960as Geraldine Redfern

Lux Video Theatre

1950as Innkeeper's Wife

Close to My Heart

1951as Mrs. Morrow

State Fair

1945as Melissa Frake

The Donna Reed Show

1958

Presenting Lily Mars

1943as Mrs. Thornway

The Kid from Brooklyn

1946as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne

The Human Comedy

1943as Mrs. Macauley

Daughters Courageous

1939as Nancy 'Nan' Masters

The Virginian

1946as Mrs. Taylor

Dark Waters

1944as Aunt Emily

Young Tom Edison

1940as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison

Our Town

1940as Mrs Gibbs

Quality Street

1937as Susan Throssel

Suspense

1949as Natalie MacLaird