Acting
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
Movies with Fay Bainter
Quality Street
1937
The Children's Hour
1961
June Bride
1948
Jezebel
1938
The Virginian
1946
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
The Human Comedy
1943
State Fair
1945
Babes on Broadway
1941
Woman of the Year
1942
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
Presenting Lily Mars
1943
The Heavenly Body
1944
Our Town
1940
Young Tom Edison
1940
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Deep Valley
1947
Mr. Gardenia Jones
1942
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
3 Is a Family
1944
The President's Lady
1953
Cry 'Havoc'
1943
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
A Bill of Divorcement
1940
The Shining Hour
1938
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Close to My Heart
1951
Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939
White Banners
1938
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
This Side of Heaven
1934
Dark Waters
1944
Journey for Margaret
1942
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942
The Arkansas Traveler
1938
Daughters Courageous
1939
Maryland
1940
Salute to the Marines
1943
Mother Carey's Chickens
1938
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942
The Lady and the Mob
1939
Give My Regards to Broadway
1948
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
1939
Our Neighbors - The Carters
1939
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001
TV Shows with Fay Bainter
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Thriller
1960
Dr. Kildare
1961
Matinee Theater
1955
Studio One
1948
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Suspense
1949
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951