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Fay Bainter

Fay Bainter

Actor · 1893 – 1968 · 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

Movies24

  • Movie7.7

    The Children's Hour

    1961 · 424 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Woman of the Year

    1942 · 169 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Jezebel

    1938 · 225 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie7.5

    Make Way for Tomorrow

    1937 · 224 votes

  • Movie7.1

    June Bride

    1948 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Quality Street

    1937 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie7.0
  • Movie6.5

    Presenting Lily Mars

    1943 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Heavenly Body

    1944 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Babes on Broadway

    1941 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The President's Lady

    1953 · 16 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie5.9

    Young Tom Edison

    1940 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Virginian

    1946 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Breakdowns of 1938

    1938 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Our Town

    1940 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Kid from Brooklyn

    1946 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie6.7

    The Shining Hour

    1938 · 22 votes

  • Movie8.2
  • Movie6.6

    State Fair

    1945 · 73 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Cry 'Havoc'

    1943 · 15 votes

Series13

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV5.3

    Matinee Theater

    1955 · 7 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV5.9
  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.1

    Adventures in Paradise

    1959 · 7 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV5.1

    Suspense

    1949 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV7.2