Fay Bainter
Actor
Born December 7, 1893 in Los 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.
Filmography
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mary Caulfield
The Children's Hour
Amelia Tilford
Dr. Kildare
Sister Mike
Thriller
Geraldine Redfern
Adventures in Paradise
Sister Josephine
The Donna Reed Show
Matinee Theater
The President's Lady
Mrs. Donaldson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Close to My Heart
Mrs. Morrow
Robert Montgomery Presents
Suspense
Natalie MacLaird
Studio One
Aunt Valerie
June Bride
Paula Winthrop
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Give My Regards to Broadway
Fay Norwick
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Mitty
Deep Valley
Ellie Saul
The Virginian
Mrs. Taylor
The Kid from Brooklyn
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
State Fair
Melissa Frake
3 Is a Family
Frances Whittaker
Dark Waters
Aunt Emily
The Heavenly Body
Margaret Sibyll
Cry 'Havoc'
Captain Marsh
Salute to the Marines
Jennie Bailey
Presenting Lily Mars
Mrs. Thornway
The Human Comedy
Mrs. Macauley
Journey for Margaret
Trudy Strauss
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Stella Livingston Hadley
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Emmy Jones
Woman of the Year
Ellen Whitcomb
Babes on Broadway
Miss Jones
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Maryland
Charlotte Danfield
A Bill of Divorcement
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
Our Town
Mrs Gibbs
Young Tom Edison
Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Ellen Carter
Daughters Courageous
Nancy 'Nan' Masters
The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Ann Murray
Breakdowns of 1938
Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Shining Hour
Hannah Linden
The Arkansas Traveler
Mrs. Martha Allen
Mother Carey's Chickens
Mrs. Margaret Carey
White Banners
Hannah
Jezebel
Aunt Belle Massey
Make Way for Tomorrow
Anita Cooper
The Soldier and the Lady
Strogoff's Mother
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
This Side of Heaven
Francene Turner