Fay Bainter

Actor

Born: December 7, 1893
Died: April 16, 1968 (age 74)
From: 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 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…

Filmography (46)

Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (2001)
Self (archive footage)
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Children's Hour (1961)
Amelia Tilford
The President's Lady (1953)
Mrs. Donaldson
Close to My Heart (1951)
Mrs. Morrow
June Bride (1948)
Paula Winthrop
Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)
Fay Norwick
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Mrs. Mitty
Deep Valley (1947)
Ellie Saul
The Virginian (1946)
Mrs. Taylor
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne
State Fair (1945)
Melissa Frake
3 Is a Family (1944)
Frances Whittaker
Dark Waters (1944)
Aunt Emily
The Heavenly Body (1944)
Margaret Sibyll
Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
Captain Marsh
Salute to the Marines (1943)
Jennie Bailey
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Mrs. Thornway
The Human Comedy (1943)
Mrs. Macauley
Journey for Margaret (1942)
Trudy Strauss
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
Mrs. Elvira Wiggs
The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Stella Livingston Hadley
Mr. Gardenia Jones (1942)
Emmy Jones
Woman of the Year (1942)
Ellen Whitcomb
Babes on Broadway (1941)
Miss Jones
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Self
Maryland (1940)
Charlotte Danfield
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Margaret "Meg" Fairfield
Our Town (1940)
Mrs Gibbs