Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1893-12-07
Day of Death
1968-04-16
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
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
Filmography (45)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
The Children's Hour
1961
The President's Lady
1953
Close to My Heart
1951
June Bride
1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
1948
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Deep Valley
1947
The Virginian
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
State Fair
1945
3 Is a Family
1944
Dark Waters
1944
