#fay bainter

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#OnThisDay in 1940, Hattie McDaniel made history when she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, the first African American actor ever to be honored with an Oscar. Fay Bainter presented McDaniel the award.

#hattie mcdaniel #fay bainter #oscars #old hollywood #Youtube

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White Banners, 1938 dir. Edmund Goulding

#claude rains #fay bainter

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Woman of the Year (1942)

Director: George Stevens

Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg

Costume designer: Adrian

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Roscoe Karns, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, and William Bendix.

#woman of the year #1942 #katharine hepburn #spencer tracy #women in menswear #hepburn and tracy #george stevens #adrian #roscoe karns #fay bainter #reginald owen #william bendix #romantic comedy #sex comedy #mgm #classic film #old hollywood #costume design #classic hollywood #hollywood studio era #40s #classic movies #old movies #old films #black and white film

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American actress Fay Bainter with Buzzer, the cat (1916). Photo by Arnold Genthe.

#vintage #fay bainter #buzzer #arnold genthe

[fitesorko]

Marsha Hunt    Ann Sothern    Fay Bainter     Margaret Sullavan   Joan Blondell

#marsha hunt #ann sothern #fay bainter #margaret sullavan #joan blondell

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The Children’s Hour: at a private school for girls, one bad apple starts rumors that the two owners, Karen & Martha, are more than just friends! Their student body dwindles & they confront the slanderer with a lawsuit, but Martha begins to doubt if her own feelings for Karen have been platonic.

#scenes #1960s #lgbt #the children's hour #ladies #audrey hepburn #shirley maclaine #karen balkin #squad #fay bainter #james garner

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Presenting Lily Mars (1943) Norman Taurog

August 2nd 2023

#presenting lily mars #1943 #norman taurog #judy garland #van heflin #spring byington #Mártha Eggerth #richard carlson #fay bainter #connie gilchrist #leonid kinskey #gus schilling

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#State Fair #Charles Winninger #Fay Bainter #Musicals

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Audrey Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner in The Children's Hour (1961)

#audrey hepburn #1961 #1960s #fay bainter #shirley maclaine #james garner #the children's hour #movies #old movies #vintage #classic #fashion #style #old hollywood glamour #old hollywood #photography

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La mujer de año (1942)

#katharine hepburn #spencer tracy #george stevens #fay bainter

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Fay Bainter ❤️

#silent film #silent era #silent actress #fay bainter #vintage broadway #character actress #vintage beauty

[citizenscreen]

Fay Bainter (December 7, 1893 – April 16, 1968)

#fay bainter #old hollywood

[outoftowninac]

THE OTHER ROSE

1923

The Other Rose is a play by George Middleton based on a French play by Edouard Bourdet. It was originally produced and directed by David Belasco, in association with William Harris Jr. It starred Fay Bainter as Rose Coe. Henry Hull was featured as Tony Mason. 

Playwright Middleton was a ‘Jersey Boy’, born in Paterson NJ in 1880. 

The play takes place at a cottage in Whale Harbor, Maine. 

Rose Coe, the 28 year-old daughter of a prematurely aged scientist, rents a cottage in Maine for herself, her father Professor Andrew Coe, and her 12 year-old brother Johnny, only to discover that Tony, the young son of the landlady did not intend it to be rented. It was, he said, a love shrine, where he had met the passion of his life the previous season; "the other Rose." He tries to put the new tenants out, with the unexpected consequences; love.”

Fay Bainter (1892-1968) started acting on Broadway in 1912. This was the 8th of her 25 Broadway appearances. In Hollywood, she won an Academy Award for Jezebel (1938). 

"I don't think I have ever been as happy in a part as I am in playing Rose Coe. It is a real pleasure to play a modern American girl of such high ideals and one who is so essentially human in every respect. I regard Rose as a girl I would be very glad to know in real life. She is the sort I would like to have come and stay with me and I feel that her friendship would be distinctly worth while. There Is no affectation or pretense about Rose. She is sincere and honest and I try to play her in a natural, straightforward manner. My interest in her is unusually keen and I approach every performance with the desire to give my best that the audience may know and love her as I do. It is really delightful to be playing in such a charming romance as 'The Other Rose.'"

Henry Hull (1890-1977) was ‘born in a trunk’ to a theatrical family. His father was once a press agent for David Belasco. In 1933, Hull created the role of Jeeter Lester in the long-running play Tobacco Road. He had started acting on Broadway at age 21. This was his 12th Rialto appearance. 

Rehearsals began on November 5th at the Belasco Theatre in NYC. This was Bainter’s first collaboration with Belasco. 

The Other Rose opened at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City on December 3, 1923. After AC, the play traveled to DC, holding forth at the National.  

The Other Rose opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on December 20, 1923.  

ABOUT THE VENUE: The Morosco Theatre (217 West 45th Street) was built in 1917 and named for theatre manager Oliver Morosco. In 1982, despite protests, it was razed to make way for the Marriott hotel. 

"’The Other Rose' is an obvious play but it is a sweet play nevertheless. In this day of stark, forthright realism, one should be thankful for a sweet play. Perhaps, if you are a bit old-fashioned, you will wish that there were more of them. I do.” ~ BRETT PAGE

“There are no surprises and no big moments. But there are many laughs.” ~ BURNS MANTLE

“Poor Miss Bainter was obliged to waste her valuable time on a role that could have played by an amateur.” ~ ALAN DALE

The Other Rose ran for 84 performances, closing in March 1923.  Four months later, Bainter gave birth to her only child, Reginald S. Venable Jr.

“I was only a raw girl, with no better sense than to ape Mrs. Fiske in everything she did.” ~ FAY BAINTER, about her youthful stage work 

In 1947, Bainter reteamed with Hull as Ida Lupino’s parents in the film Deep Valley. Nearly 25 years after first meeting, Rose and Tony were reunited. 

#The Other Rose #Fay Bainter #Henry Hull #George Middleton #1923 #Broadway #Broadway Play #Atlantic City #Nixon's Apollo Theatre #David Belasco #Morosco Theatre #romance

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#Young Tom Edison #Mickey Rooney #Fay Bainter #George Bancroft #Virginia Weidler #Eugene Pallette #Norman Taurog #1940

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The Shining Hour

She enters dancing. Though she’s not as graceful as the best dancers, she has great extension, and her spirit is so light she seems to be floating on air. If you’ve only seen Joan Crawford in her later films, seeing her in her prime in Frank Borzage’s THE SHINING HOUR (1938, TCM, Plex) can be a surprise. It’s a pity the rest of the film doesn’t carry out the buoyancy of her first appearance. The courtship scene with Melvyn Douglas that follows keeps the ball in the air. He's an expert romantic comic, and Crawford rises to his level. She even wrote some autobiographical lines that mirror her own upbringing in poverty. When he takes her to his family’s Wisconsin estate, the stage is set for a brittle comedy about the clash between city folk and country folk, redolent of early American bucolic comedies. There are even scenes that suggest how good it could be — a contretemps over tea, and a moment in which Crawford dances to the radio as her sister-in-law (Fay Bainter) looks on disapprovingly. But no, the material instead descends into turgid melodrama as Crawford finds herself drawn to her married brother-in-law (Robert Young), as if any sane woman would give up Douglas for Young or any sane man, for that matter, would give up Young’s on-screen wife, Margaret Sullivan, for Crawford.

It's all very frustrating, as there’s a good story trapped inside the soap. Crawford’s main adversary is her sister-in-law, and Bainter is another surprise. Her film roles were largely benevolent, but she had also made a hit on stage as the wife in DODSWORTH, and she draws on that bile here. Her Hannah is tight and judgmental. She knits socks with yarn and needles so tight it’s amazing she can force a single stitch out. Until the script does her dirt at the end, she’s a marvel of subtextual malice.

But the script does almost everyone dirt. Crawford is light and charming until she has to start playing forbidden passion for Young. Then she turns to heavy emoting marred by her inability to play against the meanings of her lines. And Young is just hopeless. He seems physically uncomfortable trying to make love to her. Only two performers survive all this. Sullavan is so lustrous she makes her longsuffering character seem noble and even intelligent.  She’s got the most Borzagian character in the film, and he lavishes beautiful closeups on her as her voice quivers and she fights back tears that just make her eyes glow even more. Even better is Hattie McDaniel as Crawford’s maid, Belvedere. She’s the only character who gets to play fish-out-of-water comedy throughout (no hidden passions for her!), and though she’s missing for a lot of the final act, she gets the last word in a way that cuts through the foolishness of all these idiotic WASPS so repressed they never even get around to explaining what the title means. While they’re on screen, the hour doesn’t shine; it just sputters.

#frank borzage #joan crawford #melvyn douglas #robert young #margaret sullavan #fay bainter #hattie mcdaniel

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Fay Bainter      Anne Shirley

#fay bainter #anne shirley