Fay Bainter
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday7 December 1893
Died16 April 1968 (age 74)
Place of birthLos Angeles, California, USA
Known credits59
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…
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2001 · Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Mary Caulfield
The Children's Hour
1961 · Amelia Tilford
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Sister Mike
Thriller
1960 · Geraldine Redfern
Adventures in Paradise
1959 · Sister Josephine
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Matinee Theater
1955
The President's Lady
1953 · Mrs. Donaldson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Jenny
Close to My Heart
1951 · Mrs. Morrow
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Innkeeper's Wife
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Annie Keeney
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Mrs. Grier
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Mrs. Hughes
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950 · Bella Fleace
Suspense
1949 · Natalie MacLaird
Studio One
1948 · Aunt Valerie
Studio One
1948 · Mrs. Morgan
June Bride
1948 · Paula Winthrop
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self
Give My Regards to Broadway
1948 · Fay Norwick
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947 · Mrs. Mitty
Deep Valley
1947 · Ellie Saul
The Virginian
1946 · Mrs. Taylor
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
State Fair
1945 · Melissa Frake
3 Is a Family
1944 · Frances Whittaker
Dark Waters
1944 · Aunt Emily
The Heavenly Body
1944 · Margaret Sibyll
Cry 'Havoc'
1943 · Captain Marsh
Salute to the Marines
1943 · Jennie Bailey
Presenting Lily Mars
1943 · Mrs. Thornway
The Human Comedy
1943 · Mrs. Macauley
Journey for Margaret
1942 · Trudy Strauss
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942 · Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942 · Stella Livingston Hadley
Mr. Gardenia Jones
1942 · Emmy Jones
Woman of the Year
1942 · Ellen Whitcomb
Babes on Broadway
1941 · Miss Jones
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940 · Self
Maryland
1940 · Charlotte Danfield
A Bill of Divorcement
1940 · Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
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