Fay Bainter
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Make Way for Tomorrow
as Anita Cooper 1937
Jezebel
as Aunt Belle Massey 1938
Woman of the Year
as Ellen Whitcomb 1942
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Eunice Mitty 1947
State Fair
as Melissa Frake 1945
Our Town
as Mrs Gibbs 1940
The Human Comedy
as Mrs. Macauley 1943
Babes on Broadway
as Miss Jones 1941
Dark Waters
as Aunt Emily 1944
Deep Valley
as Ellie Saul 1947
The Shining Hour
as Hannah Linden 1938
Quality Street
as Susan Throssel 1937
The Virginian
as Mrs. Taylor 1946
Journey for Margaret
as Trudy Strauss 1942
The President's Lady
as Mrs. Donaldson 1953
Cry 'Havoc'
as Captain Marsh 1943