1893-12-07 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fay Bainter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 |
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
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The Children's Hour | Amelia Tilford | 1961-12-19 |
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The President's Lady | Mrs. Donaldson | 1953-05-21 |
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Close to My Heart | Mrs. Morrow | 1951-10-01 |
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Give My Regards to Broadway | Fay Norwick | 1948-06-08 |
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June Bride | Paula Winthrop | 1948-10-29 |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Mrs. Mitty | 1947-09-01 |
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Deep Valley | Ellie Saul | 1947-07-30 |
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The Virginian | Mrs. Taylor | 1946-05-05 |
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The Kid from Brooklyn | Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne | 1946-03-21 |
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State Fair | Melissa Frake | 1945-08-29 |
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3 Is a Family | Frances Whittaker | 1944-11-23 |
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The Heavenly Body | Margaret Sibyll | 1944-03-23 |
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Dark Waters | Aunt Emily | 1944-11-21 |
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Salute to the Marines | Jennie Bailey | 1943-09-02 |
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The Human Comedy | Mrs. Macauley | 1943-03-02 |
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Cry 'Havoc' | Captain Marsh | 1943-11-23 |
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Presenting Lily Mars | Mrs. Thornway | 1943-04-29 |
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Mrs. Elvira Wiggs | 1942-10-01 |
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Mr. Gardenia Jones | Emmy Jones | 1942-05-29 |
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Stella Livingston Hadley | 1942-08-07 |
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Journey for Margaret | Trudy Strauss | 1942-12-17 |
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Woman of the Year | Ellen Whitcomb | 1942-02-05 |
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Babes on Broadway | Miss Jones | 1941-12-31 |
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Maryland | Charlotte Danfield | 1940-07-19 |
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Young Tom Edison | Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison | 1940-03-15 |
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Our Town | Mrs Gibbs | 1940-05-24 |
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self | 1940-07-31 |
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A Bill of Divorcement | Margaret "Meg" Fairfield | 1940-05-31 |
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Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 | 1939-09-22 | |
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Yes, My Darling Daughter | Ann Murray | 1939-02-25 |
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Daughters Courageous | Nancy 'Nan' Masters | 1939-06-23 |
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The Lady and the Mob | Hattie Leonard | 1939-04-03 |
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White Banners | Hannah | 1938-06-23 |
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Jezebel | Aunt Belle Massey | 1938-03-26 |
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The Arkansas Traveler | Mrs. Martha Allen | 1938-10-14 |
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Breakdowns of 1938 | Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1938-12-31 |
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Mother Carey's Chickens | Mrs. Margaret Carey | 1938-07-29 |
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The Shining Hour | Hannah Linden | 1938-11-18 |
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Quality Street | Susan Throssel | 1937-03-26 |
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Make Way for Tomorrow | Anita Cooper | 1937-05-09 |
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The Soldier and the Lady | Strogoff's Mother | 1937-04-09 |
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This Side of Heaven | Francene Turner | 1934-02-02 |
