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Fay Bainter

Highest Rated: 100% The Human Comedy (1943)

Lowest Rated: 60% The Kid From Brooklyn (1946)

Birthday: Dec 7, 1891

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

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. Mother of actor Richard Venable.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 69% The Human Comedy
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100% 92% Make Way for Tomorrow
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96% 82% Jezebel
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86% 47% Our Town
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83% 78% State Fair
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83% 80% Woman of the Year
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80% 84% The Children's Hour
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75% 80% The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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67% 30% Quality Street
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60% 69% The Kid From Brooklyn
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Fay Bainter

Fay Bainter THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER, from left: Faye Bainter, Bob Burns, 1938 DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS, Priscilla Lane, Fay Bainter, 1939 SALUTE TO THE MARINES, from left, Fay Bainter, Wallace Beery, 1943 THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY, Fay Bainter, in a gray crepe dinner suit by Robert Kalloch, 1943 CLOSE TO MY HEART, Gene Tierney, Ray Milland, Fay Bainter, 1951 QUALITY STREET, Cora Witherspoon, Estelle Winwood, Florence Lake, Fay Bainter, 1937 THE HUMAN COMEDY, Jack Jenkins, Fay Bainter, Donna Reed, Dorothy Morris, 1943 CRY HAVOC, Fay Bainter, Frances Gifford, Fely Franquelli, Marsha Hunt, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Margaret Sullavan, Ella Raines, Heather Angel, Gloria Grafton, Diana Lewis, Dorothy Morris, 1943 DAUGHTERS COURAGEOUS, Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, Fay Bainter, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, 1939 View more photos

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The Children's Hour 80% 84% 1961 Mrs. Amelia Tilford Actor The President's Lady 60% 54% 1953 Mrs. Donaldson Actor Close to My Heart 73% 1951 Mrs. Morrow Actor June Bride 56% 1948 Paula Winthrop Actor Give My Regards to Broadway 1948 Fay Norwick Actor Deep Valley 65% 1947 Ellie Saul Actor The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 75% 80% 1947 Mrs. Mitty Actor The Virginian 48% 1946 Mrs. Taylor Actor The Kid From Brooklyn 60% 69% 1946 Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne Actor State Fair 83% 78% 1945 Melissa Frake Actor Three Is a Family 1944 Frances Whittaker Actor Salute to the Marines 1943 Jennie Bailey Actor The Human Comedy 100% 69% 1943 Mrs. Macauley Actor Cry Havoc 50% 1943 Captain Marsh Actor The Heavenly Body 30% 1943 Margaret Sibyll Actor Presenting Lily Mars 77% 1943 Mrs. Thornway Actor Woman of the Year 83% 80% 1942 Ellen Whitcomb Actor Journey for Margaret 59% 1942 Trudy Strauss Actor Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 1942 Mrs. Elvira Wiggs Actor Personalities 1942 Self The War Against Mrs. Hadley 1942 Stella Hadley Actor Babes on Broadway 68% 1941 Miss "Jonesy" Jones Actor Maryland 1940 Charlotte Danfield Actor Our Town 86% 47% 1940 Mrs. Gibbs Actor Young Tom Edison 78% 1940 Nancy Edison Actor
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