Fay Bainter

Actor Dec 7 (died age 74) Los Angeles, California, USA 1934–2001 (67 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

The Children's Hour

Amelia Tilford

Film

Make Way for Tomorrow

Anita Cooper

Film

Jezebel

Aunt Belle Massey

Film

Woman of the Year

Ellen Whitcomb

Film

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Eunice Mitty

Film

State Fair

Melissa Frake

Film

The Human Comedy

Mrs. Macauley

Film

Our Town

Mrs Gibbs

Filmography

Acting (59)

Movies (46)

Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel

2001

as Self (archive footage)

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

1988

as Self (archive footage)

8.2

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1983

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Children's Hour

as Amelia Tilford

The President's Lady

as Mrs. Donaldson

Close to My Heart

as Mrs. Morrow

June Bride

as Paula Winthrop

Give My Regards to Broadway

1948

as Fay Norwick

7.5

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

as Eunice Mitty

Deep Valley

as Ellie Saul

The Kid from Brooklyn

1946

as Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne

The Virginian

as Mrs. Taylor

State Fair

as Melissa Frake

The Heavenly Body

as Margaret Sibyll

3 Is a Family

as Frances Whittaker

Dark Waters

as Aunt Emily

Presenting Lily Mars

as Mrs. Thornway

Salute to the Marines

as Jennie Bailey

Cry 'Havoc'

as Captain Marsh

The Human Comedy

as Mrs. Macauley

Woman of the Year

as Ellen Whitcomb

Journey for Margaret

as Trudy Strauss

Mr. Gardenia Jones

as Emmy Jones

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1942

as Mrs. Elvira Wiggs

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942

as Stella Livingston Hadley

5.0

Babes on Broadway

1941

as Miss Jones

6.6

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

Our Town

as Mrs Gibbs

Maryland

as Charlotte Danfield

6.5

Young Tom Edison

1940

as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison

5.9

A Bill of Divorcement

1940

as Margaret "Meg" Fairfield

The Lady and the Mob

as Hattie Leonard

Daughters Courageous

as Nancy 'Nan' Masters

6.2

Yes, My Darling Daughter

1939

as Ann Murray

4.5

Our Neighbors - The Carters

1939

as Ellen Carter

Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1

1939

as Self

6.0

The Arkansas Traveler

as Mrs. Martha Allen

Jezebel

as Aunt Belle Massey

The Shining Hour

as Hannah Linden

Mother Carey's Chickens

1938

as Mrs. Margaret Carey

White Banners

as Hannah

Breakdowns of 1938

as Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)

4.7

Make Way for Tomorrow

as Anita Cooper

Quality Street

as Susan Throssel

The Soldier and the Lady

as Strogoff's Mother

This Side of Heaven

as Francene Turner

Television (13)

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

5.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Mary Caulfield

Dr. Kildare

as Sister Mike

Thriller

as Geraldine Redfern

Adventures in Paradise

as Sister Josephine

The Donna Reed Show

Matinee Theater

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

Lux Video Theatre

as Innkeeper's Wife

Suspense

as Natalie MacLaird

Studio One

as Aunt Valerie

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self