Fay Bainter
ActingAlso 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
Movies
(45 total)
The Children's Hour
as Amelia Tilford
Jezebel
as Aunt Belle Massey
Make Way for Tomorrow
as Anita Cooper
Woman of the Year
as Ellen Whitcomb
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Eunice Mitty
State Fair
as Melissa Frake
Our Town
as Mrs Gibbs
The Human Comedy
as Mrs. Macauley
Babes on Broadway
as Miss Jones
Dark Waters
as Aunt Emily
Deep Valley
as Ellie Saul
The Shining Hour
as Hannah Linden
Quality Street
as Susan Throssel
The Virginian
as Mrs. Taylor
Journey for Margaret
as Trudy Strauss
The President's Lady
as Mrs. Donaldson
Cry 'Havoc'
as Captain Marsh
The Kid from Brooklyn
as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
The Heavenly Body
as Margaret Sibyll
Presenting Lily Mars
as Mrs. Thornway
TV Shows
(19 total)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mary Caulfield
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Thriller
as Geraldine Redfern
Dr. Kildare
as Sister Mike
Studio One
as Aunt Valerie
Studio One
as Mrs. Morgan
Suspense
as Natalie MacLaird
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Bella Fleace
Adventures in Paradise
as Sister Josephine
