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The Children's Hour

as Amelia Tilford

1961
June Bride

as Paula Winthrop

1948
Give My Regards to Broadway

as Fay Norwick

1948
The Kid from Brooklyn

as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne

1946
The Virginian

as Mrs. Taylor

1946
State Fair

as Melissa Frake

1945
The Heavenly Body

as Margaret Sibyll

1944
Dark Waters

as Aunt Emily

1944
Presenting Lily Mars

as Mrs. Thornway

1943
Cry 'Havoc'

as Captain Marsh

1943
Salute to the Marines

as Jennie Bailey

1943
Babes on Broadway

as Miss Jones

1941
Our Town

as Mrs Gibbs

1940
Young Tom Edison

as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison

1940
Yes, My Darling Daughter

as Ann Murray

1939
The Lady and the Mob

as Hattie Leonard

1939
Jezebel

as Aunt Belle Massey

1938
Make Way for Tomorrow

as Anita Cooper

1937
Quality Street

as Susan Throssel

1937
This Side of Heaven

as Francene Turner

1934
Fay Bainter Fay Bainter

Birthday

1891-12-07

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fay Bainter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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