Award-winning Actress Dies
(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter-Copyright) HOLLYWOOD, April 17. Fay Bainter, the stage and Oscar-winning screen actress long popular in roles as wife, understanding mother or faithful friend, died yesterday at her home, the Associated Press reported. She was aged 74. Her husband, Lieutenant Commander Reginald Venable, died in 1964. Their actor son, Reginald, survives. Miss Bainter was born in Los Angeles and entered films at 41 after long stage experience. Four years later, in 1938, she won her academy award as Auntie Belle in “Jezebel,” whose star, Bette Davis, also received an Oscar. Miss Bainter was nominated for the prize for two other roles—Claude Rains’s housekeeper in “White Banners" and a grandmother deceived by a child in “The Children's Hour.” Other films she appeared in were “The Shining Hour,” “Young Tom Edison," “Our
I Town,” “State Fair,” “Woman of the Year,” and “Journey for Margaret.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 2
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