The Children's Hour
1961
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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"). Often in matriarchal roles, Bainter was also acclaimed for "The Children's Hour" (1962), her last film.
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.
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 Academy Award as best supporting actress of 1938 for her role in "Jezebel." She first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1909. In 1912, she joined Daly's Theater in New York and played leading roles ...
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 ...
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.
Read the obituary of Fay Bainter, a versatile actress who won an Oscar for her role in Jezebel and starred in many stage and screen productions.
HADLEY, Fay Bainter, in a gray crepe dinner suit by Robert Kalloch, 1943 SALUTE TO THE MARINES, from left, Fay Bainter, Wallace Beery, 1943 QUALITY STREET, Cora Witherspoon, Estelle Winwood ...
