Cast & creator
Fay Bainter
Best known for Matinee Theater, Dr. Kildare, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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
Also known as: Fay Okell Bainter
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film credits
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television credits
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1934–2001 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (65)
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Matinee Theater
1955
Dr. Kildare
Sister Mike
1961Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mary Caulfield
1962
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950Robert Montgomery Presents
Bella Fleace
1950
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Studio One
Aunt Valerie
1948Studio One
Mrs. Morgan
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Thriller
Geraldine Redfern
1960
Adventures in Paradise
Sister Josephine
1959
Suspense
Natalie MacLaird
1949Lux Video Theatre
Innkeeper's Wife
1950Lux Video Theatre
Annie Keeney
1950Lux Video Theatre
Mrs. Grier
1950Lux Video Theatre
Mrs. Hughes
1950
The Children's Hour
Amelia Tilford
1961
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Jenny
1951
Woman of the Year
Ellen Whitcomb
1942
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Mrs. Mitty
1947
Jezebel
Aunt Belle Massey
1938
Make Way for Tomorrow
Anita Cooper
1937
The Virginian
Mrs. Taylor
1946
June Bride
Paula Winthrop
1948
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
The President's Lady
Mrs. Donaldson
1953
Quality Street
Susan Throssel
1937
Young Tom Edison
Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' Edison
1940
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Ann Murray
1939
The Soldier and the Lady
Strogoff's Mother
1937
The Human Comedy
Mrs. Macauley
1943
The Kid from Brooklyn
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
1946
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Stella Livingston Hadley
1942
Breakdowns of 1938
Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
3 Is a Family
Frances Whittaker
1944
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Self (archive footage)
1988
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
2001
Close to My Heart
Mrs. Morrow
1951
Mother Carey's Chickens
Mrs. Margaret Carey
1938
The Heavenly Body
Margaret Sibyll
1944
The Lady and the Mob
Hattie Leonard
1939
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
1940
The Shining Hour
Hannah Linden
1938
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
1942
Give My Regards to Broadway
Fay Norwick
1948Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1
Self
1939
Babes on Broadway
Miss Jones
1941
This Side of Heaven
Francene Turner
1934
State Fair
Melissa Frake
1945
Presenting Lily Mars
Mrs. Thornway
1943
Our Town
Mrs Gibbs
1940
Mr. Gardenia Jones
Emmy Jones
1942
Dark Waters
Aunt Emily
1944
Cry 'Havoc'
Captain Marsh
1943
Salute to the Marines
Jennie Bailey
1943
A Bill of Divorcement
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
1940
Deep Valley
Ellie Saul
1947
Our Neighbors - The Carters
Ellen Carter
1939
Maryland
Charlotte Danfield
1940
Daughters Courageous
Nancy 'Nan' Masters
1939
Journey for Margaret
Trudy Strauss
1942
White Banners
Hannah
1938
The Arkansas Traveler
Mrs. Martha Allen
1938