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