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

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

Jezebel

as Aunt Belle Massey

1961

The Children's Hour

as Amelia Tilford

1942

Woman of the Year

as Ellen Whitcomb

1940

Our Town

as Mrs Gibbs

1944

The Heavenly Body

as Margaret Sibyll

1945

State Fair

as Melissa Frake

1937

Make Way for Tomorrow

as Anita Cooper

1944

Dark Waters

as Aunt Emily

1943

Presenting Lily Mars

as Mrs. Thornway

1942

Journey for Margaret

as Trudy Strauss

1941

Babes on Broadway

as Miss Jones

1947

Deep Valley

as Ellie Saul

1937

The Soldier and the Lady

as Strogoff's Mother

1943

The Human Comedy

as Mrs. Macauley

1937

Quality Street

as Susan Throssel

1943

Cry 'Havoc'

as Captain Marsh

1940

Young Tom Edison

as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison

1943

Salute to the Marines

as Jennie Bailey

1942

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

as Stella Livingston Hadley

1953

The President's Lady

as Mrs. Donaldson

1940

A Bill of Divorcement

as Margaret "Meg" Fairfield

1938

White Banners

as Hannah

1948

June Bride

as Paula Winthrop

1946

The Kid from Brooklyn

as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne

1938

The Shining Hour

as Hannah Linden

1939

Daughters Courageous

as Nancy 'Nan' Masters

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1944

3 Is a Family

as Frances Whittaker

1940

Maryland

as Charlotte Danfield

1938

Mother Carey's Chickens

as Mrs. Margaret Carey

1939

The Lady and the Mob

as Hattie Leonard

1951

Close to My Heart

as Mrs. Morrow

1938

The Arkansas Traveler

as Mrs. Martha Allen

1948

1939

1934

This Side of Heaven

as Francene Turner

1946

The Virginian

as Mrs. Taylor

1942

1939

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)

1988

1942

Mr. Gardenia Jones

as Emmy Jones

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

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