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Fay Bainter was an American film and stage actress who won an Oscar for Jezebel (1938). She also starred in White Banners, State Fair, The Children's Hour and many other films and plays.
Fay Bainter was an Oscar-winning actress who started her career as a child performer in 1898. She appeared in many films and plays, often as a sympathetic or understanding mother, aunt or wife, and was nominated for four Oscars.
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Fay Bainter was an American film and stage actress who won an Oscar for Jezebel (1938) and was nominated for White Banners (1938). She also appeared in Our Town, State Fair, The Children's Hour and many other films and TV shows.
Watch a tribute to Fay Bainter, a Hollywood legend whose talent knows no bounds. Explore her remarkable filmography, accolades, and captivating moments in this riveting series by Hollywood Classics Café.
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- Make Way For Tomorrow (1937), Directed by Leo Mccarey
- White Banners (1938), Directed by Edmund Goulding
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942), Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
- State Fair (1945), Directed by Walter Lang
- The Children’s Hour (1961), Directed by William Wyler
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The focus in McCarey’s classic is on the elderly couple played by Beulah Bondi and Victor Moore, but the film doesn’t take sides in this relationship drama in which no one has it particularly good. Bainter earns our sympathy as the daughter-in-law who tiptoes around her sweet but meddlesome mother-in-law (Bondi) until she finally explodes. It’s hea...
Bainter is at her best in this rarely screened gem in which she plays a homeless woman who takes a job as housekeeper and cook in Claude Rains’ home to be near the son she gave up for adoption years earlier. Jackie Cooper as the son and Bonita Granville as Rains’ daughter also give memorable performances, but Bainter is the commanding presencer her...
The usually sympathetic Bainter plays against type here as a widowed Washington D.C. socialite unaffected by world events, who refuses to give into the war effort until events in the lives of her children force her to take heed. Bainter’s character is seen celebrating her birthday on Pearl Harbor Day, which was coincidentally Navy wife Bainter’s ow...
Many prefer the straight 1933 version with Will Rogers and Janet Gaynor, but this first of two musical versions featuring Rodgers & Hammerstein’s only screen score provides a charm of its own. Much of the charm revolves around the music, which includes such treasures as the Oscar winning “It Might As Well Be Spring” and the infectious “It’s a Grand...
Wyler’s remake of his own 1936 version of Lillian Hellman’s play, re-titled These Three, restores Hellman’s theme of lesbianism absent from the earlier version. Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine and James Garner have the starring roles as the two teachers and fiancé of one of them whose lives are ruined by a student’s lies. Miriam Hopkins plays the ...
Learn about the life and career of Fay Bainter, a stage-trained actress who excelled at character roles in films like Make Way for Tomorrow, White Banners and The Children's Hour. She was nominated for three Oscars, winning one for supporting actress in 1938.
A video tribute to Fay Bainter, a versatile and acclaimed actress of Classic Hollywood. Learn about her career, filmography, awards, and legacy in this cinematic odyssey.
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Fay Bainter was a versatile and acclaimed character actress who worked in stage, screen and television for six decades. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'Jezebel' in 1938 and was nominated twice more, once for 'White Banners' and once for 'The Children's Hour'.
