Born in Los Angeles, California, USA — Dec 07 1893• Died Apr 16 1968

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, f…
Browse acting and crew credits across movies and TV — filter and sort to find specific roles.

Mary Caulfield


Sister Mike


Aunt Valerie


Geraldine Redfern

Sister Josephine

Natalie MacLaird
Innkeeper's Wife


Aunt Belle Massey

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anita Cooper

Hannah Linden

Mrs. Macauley

Susan Throssel

Paula Winthrop

Francene Turner

Amelia Tilford

Melissa Frake

Miss Jones

Mrs. Taylor

Mrs Gibbs

Ellen Whitcomb

Self

Ellie Saul

Eunice Mitty

Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)

Captain Marsh

Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne

Jennie Bailey

Nancy 'Nan' Masters

Hattie Leonard

Mrs. Donaldson

Charlotte Danfield

Mrs. Thornway

Frances Whittaker

Strogoff's Mother

Hannah

Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison

Stella Livingston Hadley

Aunt Emily

Mrs. Martha Allen

Margaret "Meg" Fairfield

Self (archive footage)

Ann Murray

Mrs. Margaret Carey

Margaret Sibyll

Mrs. Morrow

Trudy Strauss

Emmy Jones
Self

Mrs. Elvira Wiggs

Fay Norwick

Ellen Carter