Fay 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
Known For
Aunt Belle Massey
Jezebel
Amelia Tilford
The Children's Hour
Ellen Whitcomb
Woman of the Year
Mrs Gibbs
Our Town
Margaret Sibyll
The Heavenly Body
Melissa Frake
State Fair
Mrs. Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Anita Cooper
Make Way for Tomorrow
Aunt Emily
Dark Waters
Mrs. Thornway
Presenting Lily Mars
Trudy Strauss
Journey for Margaret
Miss Jones
Babes on Broadway
Ellie Saul
Deep Valley
Strogoff's Mother
The Soldier and the Lady
Mrs. Macauley
The Human Comedy
Susan Throssel
Quality Street
Captain Marsh
Cry 'Havoc'
Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
Young Tom Edison
Jennie Bailey
Salute to the Marines
Stella Livingston Hadley
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Mrs. Donaldson
The President's Lady
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
A Bill of Divorcement
Hannah
White Banners
Paula Winthrop
June Bride
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
The Kid from Brooklyn
Hannah Linden
The Shining Hour
Nancy 'Nan' Masters
Daughters Courageous
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Frances Whittaker
3 Is a Family
Charlotte Danfield
Maryland
Mrs. Margaret Carey
Mother Carey's Chickens
Hattie Leonard
The Lady and the Mob
Mrs. Morrow
Close to My Heart
Mrs. Martha Allen
The Arkansas Traveler
Fay Norwick
Give My Regards to Broadway
Ann Murray
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Francene Turner
This Side of Heaven
Mrs. Taylor
The Virginian
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdowns of 1938
Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Emmy Jones
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
46
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-12-07
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
Fay Okell Bainter