Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter.
One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937).
She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, the incident contributed to her death two years later.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.01 |
| Birthday | 1906-10-06 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Laura Augusta Gainor, Джанет Гейнор, |
1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
7.858/768
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1937
A Star Is Born
7.19/203
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
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A Star Is Born
1928
Street Angel
7/49
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
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Street Angel
1938
The Young in Heart
6.5/22
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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The Young in Heart
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
4.2/6
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
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Three Loves Has Nancy
1933
State Fair
6.2/18
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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State Fair
1927
7th Heaven
7.4/90
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall i...
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7th Heaven
1929
Sunny Side Up
7.273/11
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long I...
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Sunny Side Up
1935
One More Spring
5/2
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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One More Spring
1929
Lucky Star
7.6/37
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where...
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Lucky Star
1936
Small Town Girl
6.2/9
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dak...
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Small Town Girl
1957
Bernardine
7/4
A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.
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Bernardine
1931
The Man Who Came Back
3.5/4
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable ma...
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The Man Who Came Back
1931
Delicious
6.2/3
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
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Delicious
1926
The Blue Eagle
5.1/7
Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they...
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The Blue Eagle
1928
4 Devils
7/3
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector...
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4 Devils
1929
Happy Days
6/2
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly s...
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Happy Days
1936
Ladies In Love
5.8/5
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
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Ladies In Love
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
6.1/8
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1933
Paddy the Next Best Thing
1/1
In Ireland, Major Adair’s older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father’s debts, even though she...
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Paddy the Next Best Thing
1933
Adorable
3.7/3
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
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Adorable
1931
Daddy Long Legs
4/2
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds h...
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Daddy Long Legs
1934
Change of Heart
6.3/3
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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Change of Heart
1934
Carolina
0/0
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joa...
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Carolina
1932
Tess of the Storm Country
6/1
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the c...
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Tess of the Storm Country
1926
The Shamrock Handicap
5.1/5
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate....
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The Shamrock Handicap
1926
The Johnstown Flood
6.8/7
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
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The Johnstown Flood
1930
High Society Blues
0/0
After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house ad...
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High Society Blues
1926
The Return of Peter Grimm
0/0
"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spiri...
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The Return of Peter Grimm
1934
Servants' Entrance
0/0
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda fa...
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Servants' Entrance
1926
45 Minutes from Hollywood
5.04/25
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
1927
With Love and Hisses
6.15/20
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.
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With Love and Hisses
1931
Merely Mary Ann
0/0
Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
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Merely Mary Ann
1932
The First Year
0/0
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tuc...
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The First Year
1929
Christina
0/0
This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) tells the tale of Christina, the daughter of Dutch toymaker Niklaas. Much to h...
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Christina
2013
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
5.5/4
Uncensored. Laugh along with Hollywood's brightest stars in this hilarious compilation of bloopers from some of the biggest movies in history . You'll...
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Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
1926
The Stolen Ranch
5.5/2
Returning home from the Great War, "Breezy" Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank Wilcox (Ralph McCullough) discover the Wilcox property...
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The Stolen Ranch
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1924
All Wet
5.2/4
Charley Chase has car trouble.
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All Wet
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.364/99
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1927
Two Girls Wanted
0/0
Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is...
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Two Girls Wanted
1925
The Plastic Age
5.8/9
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds th...
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The Plastic Age
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
7/48
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
1925
Flaming Flappers
0/0
Mother - The hand that rocks the family - and rocks it often! A family comedy.
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Flaming Flappers
1926
The Midnight Kiss
0/0
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas fro...
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The Midnight Kiss
1926
The Man in the Saddle
0/0
A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a stag...
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The Man in the Saddle
1927
The Horse Trader
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The Horse Trader
1925
The Crook Buster
0/0
A 1925 silent Western
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The Crook Buster
1926
Ridin' for Love
0/0
Robert Kane, owner of the Bar-L Ranch, has received word from his attorney that he will have to marry Ann Scott before the 15th of the month, whom he...
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Ridin' for Love
1926
Martin of the Mounted
0/0
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Martin of the Mounted
1926
Don't Shoot
0/0
Nancy Burton, niece of the sheriff, is in love with Deputy Tom Farrell, but she as an aversion to bloodshed. She overhears that he shot and killed an...
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Don't Shoot
1926
The Gunless Bad Man
0/0
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The Gunless Bad Man
1926
Fade Away Foster
0/0
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Fade Away Foster
1926
The Galloping Cowboy
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Bill Crane is a fun-loving cowboy who likes to play pranks with an Australian bull-whip, much to the dismay of his ranch-owning uncle, Pete Perry. Bil...
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The Galloping Cowboy
1924
Young Ideas
0/0
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has...
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Young Ideas
1925
The Haunted Honeymoon
0/0
The Haunted Honeymoon is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey with Janet...
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The Haunted Honeymoon
1924
Cupid's Rustler
0/0
Story of a cowboy who falls for a notorious dance-hall girl. The girl is brought back home to the farm, where a crooked ranch foreman who knew the gir...
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Cupid's Rustler
1926
A Punch in the Nose
0/0
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A Punch in the Nose
1925
The Burning Trail
0/0
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. He gives up the sport and heads west. He gets a job...
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The Burning Trail
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1960
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
6/1
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1926
Oh! What a Nurse!
0/0
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Rut...
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