Fay Bainter
Birthday: 1891-12-07 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USAFay 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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as Amelia Tilford
as Fay Norwick
as Paula Winthrop
as Mrs. Mitty
as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
as Mrs. Taylor
as Melissa Frake
as Aunt Emily
as Margaret Sibyll
as Captain Marsh
as Jennie Bailey
as Mrs. Thornway
as Miss Jones
as Mrs Gibbs
as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
as Ann Murray
as Hattie Leonard
as Aunt Belle Massey
as Anita Cooper
as Susan Throssel
as Francene Turner
