Fay Bainter
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1893-12-07 (75 years old)
Deathday
1968-04-16
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known As
Fay Okell Bainter
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 (1...
Acting
1938
as Aunt Belle Massey
1961
as Amelia Tilford
1942
as Ellen Whitcomb
1940
as Mrs Gibbs
1944
as Margaret Sibyll
1945
as Melissa Frake
1947
as Mrs. Mitty
1937
as Anita Cooper
1944
as Aunt Emily
1943
as Mrs. Thornway
1942
as Trudy Strauss
1941
as Miss Jones
1947
as Ellie Saul
1937
as Strogoff's Mother
1943
as Mrs. Macauley
1937
as Susan Throssel
1943
as Captain Marsh
1940
as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
1943
as Jennie Bailey
1942
as Stella Livingston Hadley
1953
as Mrs. Donaldson
1940
as Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
1938
as Hannah
1948
as Paula Winthrop
1946
as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
1938
as Hannah Linden
1939
as Nancy 'Nan' Masters
1983
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1944
as Frances Whittaker
1940
as Charlotte Danfield
1938
as Mrs. Margaret Carey
1939
as Hattie Leonard
1951
as Mrs. Morrow
1938
as Mrs. Martha Allen
1948
as Fay Norwick
1939
as Ann Murray
1934
as Francene Turner
1946
as Mrs. Taylor
1942
as Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
1939
as Ellen Carter
1938
as Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
1940
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1942
as Emmy Jones
2014
as Self (archive footage)
1939
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