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Aliases: Fay Okell Bainter
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 12
Most Famous Work
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
Most Famous Work
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Mrs. HughesThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(1962) Mary CaulfieldRobert Montgomery Presents
(1950) Bella FleaceDr. Kildare
(1961) Sister MikeStudio One
(1948) Mrs. MorganSuspense
(1949) Natalie MacLairdAdventures in Paradise
(1959) Sister JosephineThriller
(1960) Geraldine RedfernActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
1988 | (archive footage) | |
1983 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
1963 | N/A | |
1962 | Mary Caulfield | |
1961 | Amelia Tilford | |
Sister Mike | ||
1960 | Geraldine Redfern | |
1959 | Sister Josephine | |
1958 | N/A | |
1955 | N/A | |
1953 | Mrs. Donaldson | |
1951 | N/A | |
Jenny | ||
Mrs. Morrow | ||
1950 | Innkeeper's Wife | |
Annie Keeney | ||
Mrs. Grier | ||
Mrs. Hughes | ||
N/A | ||
Bella Fleace | ||
1949 | Natalie MacLaird | |
1948 | Aunt Valerie | |
Mrs. Morgan | ||
Paula Winthrop | ||
Self - Actress | ||
Fay Norwick | ||
1947 | Mrs. Mitty | |
Ellie Saul | ||
1946 | Mrs. Taylor | |
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne | ||
1945 | Melissa Frake | |
1944 | Frances Whittaker | |
Aunt Emily | ||
Margaret Sibyll | ||
1943 | Captain Marsh | |
Jennie Bailey | ||
Mrs. Thornway | ||
Mrs. Macauley | ||
1942 | Trudy Strauss | |
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs | ||
Stella Livingston Hadley | ||
Emmy Jones | ||
Ellen Whitcomb | ||
1941 | Miss Jones | |
1940 | Self | |
Charlotte Danfield | ||
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield | ||
Mrs Gibbs | ||
Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison | ||
1939 | N/A | |
Nancy 'Nan' Masters | ||
Hattie Leonard | ||
Ann Murray | ||
1938 | Hannah Linden | |
Mrs. Martha Allen | ||
Mrs. Margaret Carey | ||
Hannah | ||
Aunt Belle Massey | ||
Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
1937 | Anita Cooper | |
Strogoff's Mother | ||
Susan Throssel | ||
1934 | Francene Turner | |
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |