Fay Bainter
Born in Los Angeles, California, USA — Dec 07 1893• Died Apr 16 1968
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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, f…
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Fay Bainter's Credits
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mary Caulfield
Robert Montgomery Presents
Dr. Kildare
Sister Mike
Matinee Theater
Studio One
Aunt Valerie
The Donna Reed Show
Thriller
Geraldine Redfern
Adventures in Paradise
Sister Josephine
Suspense
Natalie MacLaird
Lux Video Theatre
Innkeeper's Wife
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Jezebel
Aunt Belle Massey
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Make Way for Tomorrow
Anita Cooper
The Shining Hour
Hannah Linden
The Human Comedy
Mrs. Macauley
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
June Bride
Paula Winthrop
This Side of Heaven
Francene Turner
The Children's Hour
Amelia Tilford
State Fair
Melissa Frake
Babes on Broadway
Miss Jones
The Virginian
Mrs. Taylor
Our Town
Mrs Gibbs
Woman of the Year
Ellen Whitcomb
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Deep Valley
Ellie Saul
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Eunice Mitty
Breakdowns of 1938
Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cry 'Havoc'
Captain Marsh
The Kid from Brooklyn
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
Salute to the Marines
Jennie Bailey
Daughters Courageous
Nancy 'Nan' Masters
The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard
The President's Lady
Mrs. Donaldson
Maryland
Charlotte Danfield
Presenting Lily Mars
Mrs. Thornway
3 Is a Family
Frances Whittaker
The Soldier and the Lady
Strogoff's Mother
White Banners
Hannah
Young Tom Edison
Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Stella Livingston Hadley
Dark Waters
Aunt Emily
The Arkansas Traveler
Mrs. Martha Allen
A Bill of Divorcement
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Ann Murray
Mother Carey's Chickens
Mrs. Margaret Carey
The Heavenly Body
Margaret Sibyll
Close to My Heart
Mrs. Morrow
Journey for Margaret
Trudy Strauss
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Emmy Jones
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Self
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
Give My Regards to Broadway
Fay Norwick
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Ellen Carter