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