Fay Bainter
Acting
Born 1893-12-07
Died 1968-04-16
Los Angeles, California, USA
59 credits
Academy Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 1962 Best Supporting Actress Nominated The Children's Hour
- 1939 Best Supporting Actress Won Jezebel
- 1939 Best Actress Nominated White Banners
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
56 credits
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Kildare
Thriller
Studio One
The Ed Sullivan Show
Adventures in Paradise
Suspense
Lux Video Theatre
The Children's Hour
Quality Street
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Jezebel
June Bride
Make Way for Tomorrow
Woman of the Year
The Virginian
Our Town
Young Tom Edison
The Kid from Brooklyn
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
State Fair
Babes on Broadway
Cry 'Havoc'
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
The Human Comedy
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Breakdowns of 1938
Presenting Lily Mars
Daughters Courageous
The Heavenly Body
The Shining Hour
The Soldier and the Lady
Maryland
The Lady and the Mob
Close to My Heart
Dark Waters
The President's Lady
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Deep Valley
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mr. Gardenia Jones
This Side of Heaven
3 Is a Family
Salute to the Marines
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Journey for Margaret
Give My Regards to Broadway
Our Neighbors - The Carters
A Bill of Divorcement
Mother Carey's Chickens
White Banners
The Arkansas Traveler
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Other credits
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