Highest rated movie: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Lowest rated movie: Quality Street (1937)
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Movies starring Fay Bainter have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Make Way for Tomorrow - released in 1937 - is Fay Bainter's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 113 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Fay Bainter is Quality Street - released in 1937 - with a score of 50% based on 6 reviews.
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 Day (July 1934). Bainter quickly achieved success, and in 1938 she became the first performer nominated in the same year for both the Academy Award for Best Actress, for White Banners (1938), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Jezebel (1938), winning for the latter. Since then, only nine other actors have won dual nominations in a single year. In 1940 she played Mrs. Gibbs in the film production of the Thornton Wilder play Our Town. In 1945 she played Melissa Frake in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical State Fair. She was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Children's Hour (1961). Finally, in 1962, Fay appeared as a guest star on The Donna Reed Show.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
Fay Bainter has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Mickey Rooney, Henry O'Neill and Cyril Ring.
Fay Bainter has worked with these film directors: William Wyler, Norman Taurog, George Stevens and Norman Z. McLeod.
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