Fay Bainter
Birthday: 7 December 1893, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: Fay Okell Bainter
Height: 165 cm
Fay Bainter's career began as a child performer in 1898. For some time, she was a member of the traveling cast of the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles. In 1912, she made her Broadway debut in ...Show More
[on wearing a black wig for her role as Ming Toy in the stage production of East is West] A disappoi Show more
[on wearing a black wig for her role as Ming Toy in the stage production of East is West] A disappointed blonde am I. And the dye runs and is ruining my hair. Hide
[on her early stage work with Minnie Maddern Fiske] I was only a raw girl, with no better sense than Show more
[on her early stage work with Minnie Maddern Fiske] I was only a raw girl, with no better sense than to ape Mrs. Fiske in everything she did. Hide
[In 1938] There comes a day when the flush of youth disappears from every woman's face. Most women d Show more
[In 1938] There comes a day when the flush of youth disappears from every woman's face. Most women dread it. I did. Like so many things, however, it is worse in anticipation than actual fact. Hide
Some of the young players that all that is required of them is learning lines and speaking them when Show more
Some of the young players that all that is required of them is learning lines and speaking them when their cue comes. They stand staring at you with vacant eyes, concentrating on what they have to say, instead of listening to and concentrating on what you are saying. Hide
Fay Bainter's FILMOGRAPHY
as Actor (16)
Fay Bainter'S roles
Mrs. Amelia Tilford
Melissa Frake