Fay Bainter

Known for ActingBorn 1893-12-07Died 1968-04-16Los Angeles, California, USA

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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

3 Is a Family

Our Neighbors - The Carters

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

The Children's Hour

Give My Regards to Broadway

Make Way for Tomorrow

This Side of Heaven

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Soldier and the Lady

Salute to the Marines

June Bride

The President's Lady

Woman of the Year

Jezebel

The Ed Sullivan Show

Thriller

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Lux Video Theatre

Journey for Margaret

Close to My Heart

The Shining Hour

The Donna Reed Show

State Fair

The Arkansas Traveler

Babes on Broadway

Presenting Lily Mars

Cry 'Havoc'

Maryland

The Lady and the Mob

The Kid from Brooklyn

A Bill of Divorcement

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Daughters Courageous

Adventures in Paradise

The Human Comedy

The Virginian

White Banners

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Robert Montgomery Presents

Dark Waters

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

Mother Carey's Chickens

Dr. Kildare

Our Town

Young Tom Edison