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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.
Fay Bainter. Actress: Jezebel. Fay Bainter's career began as a child performer in 1898. For some time, she was a member of the traveling cast of the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles. In 1912, she made her Broadway debut in 'The Rose of Panama', but this and her subsequent play 'The Bridal Path' (1913), were conspicuous failures.
Fay Bainter. Actress. A veteran performer whose career spanned six decades, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as 'Aunt Belle Massey' in the 1938 romantic drama film Jezebel with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda.
Fay Bainter was a character actress whose career on stage, screen and television spanned six decades of considerable success. She began her acting life on stage as a child performer and she had a successful Broadway career before she appeared in movies.
Fay Bainter, Actress, Dies at 74; Won Academy Award in 1939. Share full article. April 17, 1968. The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from. April 17, 1968,...
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.
Jun 23, 2011 · Fay Bainter was unique among the stage trained actresses who excelled at character roles on screen in the 1930s and 40s. While other prolific performers of the day such as Edna May Oliver, Beulah Bondi and Spring Byington had always been character players, Bainter was a theatrical star of the first magnitude.
Actress Born Dec. 7, 1893 in Los Angeles, CA. Died April 16, 1968 in Hollywood Hills, CA. F ay Bainter — who made her acting debut at the age of 4 in a hospital benefit performance — won the...
American actress Fay Okell Bainter was a familiar face in many films throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Typically playing motherly figures while speaking in her signature husky voice, Bainter became a frequent presence throughout various stage and screen roles.
Biography. Broadway actress who made her screen debut in 1934 and, four years later, earned simultaneous Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress ("Jezebel," for which she won) and Best Actress ("White Banners").
