Fay Bainter
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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
Known for
Credits
The Children's Hour (1961)
as Amelia Tilford
Jezebel (1938)
as Aunt Belle Massey
Quality Street (1937)
as Susan Throssel
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
as Anita Cooper
Woman of the Year (1942)
as Ellen Whitcomb
June Bride (1948)
as Paula Winthrop
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
as Mrs. Mitty
The Virginian (1946)
as Mrs. Taylor
State Fair (1945)
as Melissa Frake
Young Tom Edison (1940)
as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Mrs. Thornway
Our Town (1940)
as Mrs Gibbs
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
as Ann Murray
Babes on Broadway (1941)
as Miss Jones
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
as Self
The President's Lady (1953)
as Mrs. Donaldson
The Human Comedy (1943)
as Mrs. Macauley
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
as Captain Marsh
The Shining Hour (1938)
as Hannah Linden
Deep Valley (1947)
as Ellie Saul
Close to My Heart (1951)
as Mrs. Morrow
Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
as Mrs. Margaret Carey
The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
as Strogoff's Mother
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 (1939)
as Self
The Heavenly Body (1944)
as Margaret Sibyll
Dark Waters (1944)
as Aunt Emily
Salute to the Marines (1943)
as Jennie Bailey
Mr. Gardenia Jones (1942)
as Emmy Jones
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Daughters Courageous (1939)
as Nancy 'Nan' Masters
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
as Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lady and the Mob (1939)
as Hattie Leonard
White Banners (1938)
as Hannah
This Side of Heaven (1934)
as Francene Turner
Maryland (1940)
as Charlotte Danfield
Journey for Margaret (1942)
as Trudy Strauss
The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
as Stella Livingston Hadley
The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
as Mrs. Martha Allen
Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939)
as Ellen Carter
3 Is a Family (1944)
as Frances Whittaker
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
as Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)
as Fay Norwick
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
as Mrs. Elvira Wiggs