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