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
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Movies (37)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)
1988
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
The Children's Hour
as Amelia Tilford
1961
The President's Lady
as Mrs. Donaldson
1953
Close to My Heart
as Mrs. Morrow
1951
June Bride
as Paula Winthrop
1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
as Fay Norwick
1948
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Eunice Mitty
1947
Deep Valley
as Ellie Saul
1947
The Virginian
as Mrs. Taylor
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn
as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
1946
State Fair
as Melissa Frake
1945
3 Is a Family
as Frances Whittaker
1944
Dark Waters
as Aunt Emily
1944
The Heavenly Body
as Margaret Sibyll
1944
Cry 'Havoc'
as Captain Marsh
1943
Salute to the Marines
as Jennie Bailey
1943
Presenting Lily Mars
as Mrs. Thornway
1943
The Human Comedy
as Mrs. Macauley
1943
Journey for Margaret
as Trudy Strauss
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
1942
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Stella Livingston Hadley
1942
Mr. Gardenia Jones
as Emmy Jones
1942
Woman of the Year
as Ellen Whitcomb
1942
Babes on Broadway
as Miss Jones
1941
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as Self
1940
Maryland
as Charlotte Danfield
1940
A Bill of Divorcement
as Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
1940
Our Town
as Mrs Gibbs
1940
Young Tom Edison
as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
1940
Our Neighbors - The Carters
as Ellen Carter
1939
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
as Self
1939
Daughters Courageous
as Nancy 'Nan' Masters
1939
The Lady and the Mob
as Hattie Leonard
1939
Yes, My Darling Daughter
as Ann Murray
1939
Breakdowns of 1938
as Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
The Shining Hour
as Hannah Linden
1938
TV Shows (13)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mary Caulfield
1962
Dr. Kildare
as Sister Mike
1961
Thriller
as Geraldine Redfern
1960
Adventures in Paradise
as Sister Josephine
1959
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Matinee Theater
1955
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lux Video Theatre
as Innkeeper's Wife
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Suspense
as Natalie MacLaird
1949
Studio One
as Aunt Valerie
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948