Overview

Born : December 7, 1893 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Died : April 16, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA  (pneumonia)

Birth Name : Fay Okell Bainter

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m) 

Fay Bainter's profession started as a kid entertainer in 1898. For quite a while, she was an individual from the voyaging cast of the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles. In 1912, she made her Broadway debut in 'The Rose of Panama', however this and her resulting play 'The Bridal Path' (1913), were obvious disappointments. She went on in stock and, subsequent to framing a relationship with David Belasco, took one more swing at Broadway. She had her previously hit with a unique exhibition, which laid out her as significant dramatic star, as Ming Toy in 'East is West', at the Astor Theater (1918-1920). Switching back and forth among parody and drama, Fay then, at that point, sparkled in 'The Enemy' (1925-26) with Walter Abel and gave a remarkable exhibition of emotional meltdown as the frantic Fran Dodsworth ('Dodsworth',1934-35), inverse Walter Huston as her better half Sam. Fay never gotten the opportunity to reproduce her stage job on screen - Ruth Chattertongot the part all things being equal. Simultaneously, presently matured 41, she was offered a job in her first film, This Side of Heaven (1934). Co-featuring inverse Lionel Barrymore, this was the first of numerous smart, understanding spouses, aunties and moms she was to play over the course of the following twenty years.


Of stocky worked, with expressive eyes and a warm, marginally smoky voice, Fay seldom attempted unsympathetic or hard-bubbled characters, except for her Oscar-assigned widow in The Children's Hour (1961). While not frequently top-charged, her name remained reliably high in the rundown of credits all through her vocation. Pundits praised her authentic exhibitions in creations like Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and Quality Street (1937), as Katharine Hepburn's edgy old maid sister. Fay won the Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for the film Jezebel (1938). As Bette Davis' harsh, censuring Aunt Belle, she dominated in a to some degree meatier job than the refined or fluttery women she had recently been locked in to depict. That very year, she was additionally designated (as Best Actress) for her servant, Hannah Parmalee, in White Banners (1938), however lost to Bette Davis. Fay upgraded a lot more movies with her presence during the 1940's, quite as Mrs. Elvira Wiggs, in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942), Merle Oberon's unusual auntie from the inlet in Dark Waters (1944) and Danny Kaye's mom in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). From the 1950's, she exchanged stage with following up on TV. Her last job of note was as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's 'Drawn out Day's Journey into Night', on visit with the National Company in 1958.

Screen, stage and TV entertainer.

Auntie of Dorothy Burgess.

An adjustment of the Academy Awards designating and casting a ballot rules was made due to disarray over her two selections in 1938.

Following her passing, she was covered in Arlington National Cemetery. Her significant other was a tactical official who was covered there.

Alongside Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, she is one of just twelve entertainers to get Academy Award assignments in two acting classifications around the same time. She was designated for Best Actress for White Banners (1938) and Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) at the twelfth Academy Awards in 1939, winning the last option grant. Not just that, she is the primary entertainer to have at any point been named in the two classes around the same time, and furthermore the first to have a designation in quite a while ever.

She was driven into acting by her mom. As a young lady, she was in front of an audience by age 6, and made her Broadway debut at age 18. Nothing happened to it, so she returned to working in stock acting organizations.

Her significant other Reginald Sydney Hugh Venable (1890-1964) was a lieutenant leader in the United States Navy.

Given the absolute first African-American champ the Oscar statuette when Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939) (February 29, 1940, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles).

She became one of a handful of the entertainers to be assigned for lead and supporting Oscars around the same time (for White Banners (1938) and Jezebel (1938)). She won for the last option.

Was the twelfth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Jezebel (1938) at The eleventh Academy Awards on February 23, 1939.

Memoir in "Entertainers of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.


Is one of 15 Oscar-winning entertainers to have been brought into the world in the province of California. The others are Gloria Grahame, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Gay Harden and Brie Larson.

Girl of Charles Frederick Bainter (1849-1928), brought into the world in Illinois, and Mary Okell (1850-1922), brought into the world in England.

Her child Reginald kicked the bucket on June 27, 1974 in Los Angeles, California at age 50.

Brought forth her lone youngster at age 29, a child Reginald S. Venable Jr. on July 23, 1923. Youngster's dad was her better half, Reginald Venable Sr.

Gotten back to work 5 months subsequent to bringing forth her child Reginald when she started acting in the Broadway play "The Other Rose".

Was 3 months pregnant with her child Reginald when she finished her run of the Broadway play "The Lady Cristillinda".

Was in three Oscar Best Picture chosen people: Jezebel (1938), Our Town (1940) and The Human Comedy (1943).

More youthful sister of Grace Burgess (May 22, 1880-March 10, 1974).

List Of Fay Bainter Movies

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series)
  •  Theatre of Stars (TV Series)
  •  Dr. Kildare (TV Series)
  •  The Donna Reed Show (TV Series)
  •  The Children's Hour
  •  Boris Karloff Presents (TV Series)
  •  Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)
  •  Little Women (TV Series)
  •  Matinee Theatre (TV Series)
  •  Kraft Theatre (TV Series)
  •  Damon Runyon Theater (TV Series)
  •  Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
  •  Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series)
  •  The Elgin Hour (TV Series)
  •  Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
  •  The Web (TV Series)
  •  The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)
  •  The Story of Ruth (TV Movie)
  •  The President's Lady
  •  Suspense (TV Series)
  •  Close to My Heart
  •  Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series)
  •  Danger (TV Series)
  •  The Ford Theatre Hour (TV Series)
  •  The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (TV Series)
  •  June Bride
  •  Give My Regards to Broadway
  •  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  •  Deep Valley
  •  The Virginian
  •  The Kid from Brooklyn
  •  State Fair
  •  Three Is a Family
  •  Dark Waters
  •  The Heavenly Body
  •  Cry 'Havoc'
  •  Salute to the Marines
  •  Presenting Lily Mars
  •  The Human Comedy
  •  Journey for Margaret
  •  Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
  •  The War Against Mrs. Hadley
  •  Mister Gardenia Jones (Documentary short)
  •  Woman of the Year
  •  Babes on Broadway
  •  Maryland
  •  Bill of Divorcement
  •  Our Town
  •  Young Tom Edison
  •  Our Neighbors - The Carters
  •  Daughters Courageous
  •  The Lady and the Mob
  •  Yes, My Darling Daughter
  •  The Shining Hour
  •  The Arkansas Traveler
  •  Mother Carey's Chickens
  •  Jezebel
  •  White Banners
  •  Make Way for Tomorrow
  •  The Adventures of Michael Strogoff
  •  Quality Street
  •  This Side of Heaven     & Many more....