Fay Bainter
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
Make Way for Tomorrow
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Jezebel
as Aunt Belle MasseyIn 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Mrs. MittyWalter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a...
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Woman of the Year
as Ellen WhitcombRival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their...
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The Children's Hour
as Amelia TilfordAn unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...
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State Fair
as Melissa FrakeDuring their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud...
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The Human Comedy
as Mrs. MacauleyTeenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his...
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The Virginian
as Mrs. TaylorArriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible...
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Salute to the Marines
as Jennie BaileyIt is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese...
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Cry 'Havoc'
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The President's Lady
as Mrs. DonaldsonThe story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and...
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The Heavenly Body
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A Bill of Divorcement
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The Kid from Brooklyn
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Young Tom Edison
as Mrs. Samuel 'Nancy' EdisonInventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and...
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Our Town
as Mrs GibbsChange comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life...
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Mother Carey's Chickens
as Mrs. Margaret CareyA financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.
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The Shining Hour
as Hannah LindenA nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Daughters Courageous
as Nancy 'Nan' MastersNan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...
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June Bride
as Paula WinthropA magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding,...
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Babes on Broadway
as Miss JonesPenny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
as SelfThis 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including...
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Journey for Margaret
as Trudy StraussAn American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening...
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Quality Street
as Susan ThrosselIn the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
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The Soldier and the Lady
as Strogoff's MotherIn the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles...
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Stella Livingston HadleyWealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid...
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Breakdowns of 1938
as Hannah Parmalee (archive footage) (uncredited)Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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3 Is a Family
as Frances WhittakerBased on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles...
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White Banners
as HannahA homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small...
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Dark Waters
as Aunt EmilyLeslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to...
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Deep Valley
as Ellie SaulA shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
as Self (archive footage)This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests,...
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Presenting Lily Mars
as Mrs. ThornwayStarstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a...
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Close to My Heart
as Mrs. MorrowA journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child.
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Maryland
as Charlotte DanfieldA woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do...
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Mr. Gardenia Jones
as Emmy JonesDocumentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing...
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The Arkansas Traveler
as Mrs. Martha AllenThe Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily...
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The Lady and the Mob
as Hattie LeonardHattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
as Fay NorwickA family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play...
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This Side of Heaven
as Francene TurnerA family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Mrs. Elvira WiggsIn the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
as Ann MurrayEllen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two...
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Matinee Theater
as uncreditedMatinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...
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Robert Montgomery Presents
as uncreditedRobert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...
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Robert Montgomery Presents
as Bella FleaceRobert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...
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Dr. Kildare
as Sister MikeThe story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...
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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mary CaulfieldA continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...
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Adventures in Paradise
as Sister JosephineAdventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...
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The Donna Reed Show
as uncreditedRevolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a...
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Studio One
as Aunt ValerieAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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Studio One
as Mrs. MorganAn American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...
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Thriller
as Geraldine RedfernThriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...
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The Ed Sullivan Show
as SelfThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...
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Suspense
as Natalie MacLairdAn anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as uncreditedSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as JennySchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
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