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Fay Bainter: White Banners
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Bainter was the first person to be nominated for Academy Awards in both the acting (for her performance in White Banners) and supporting acting categories in the same year. She won the supporting actress award for her role in Jezebel (AAN) but lost the lead actress award to her Jezebel costar, Bette Davis. A popular character actress usually cast in films as a gentle, sympathetic aunt or mother figure, Bainter began her career as a child actress on the stage. She made her Broadway debut in 1912 and made her first movie, This Side of Heaven, in 1934. Her last film was The Children's Hour (1962), for which she earned another best supporting actress nomination by playing against type as the ruthless dowager who destroys the careers and reputations of her granddaughter's schoolteachers.
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Bainter was a distinguished stage actress who did not make her film debut until 1934, when she was in her early 40s. Over the next decade, she was featured in a number of important roles, winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for Jezebel (1938) the same year she was nominated for Best Actress for her work in White Banners. Highly sought after for a range of matron roles, her successful film career continued into the early 1950s. She then worked primarily on television for the next ten years, returning to the big screen for The Children's Hour (1961), for which she received another Supporting Actress nomination.
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In 1938 werd Fay genomineerd voor de Academy Awards voor beste actrice voor haar bijdrage in de film White Banners. Ook werd ze, datzelfde jaar, genomineerd en won ze de Academy Award voor beste bijrol voor haar rol in de film Jezebel.
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