Janet Gaynor
Born: 1906-10-06 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1984-09-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Gaynor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2013
- Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Yesteryear as Self
1977
- The Love Boat as Violet Hooper
1976
- Hooray for Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
1961
- Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (uncredited)
1960
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood as Self
1957
- Bernardine as Mrs. Ruth Wilson
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- General Electric Theater as Martha Allen
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Eleanor
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self (archive footage)
1938
- The Young in Heart as George-Anne Carleton
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Nancy Briggs
1937
- A Star Is Born as Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester
1936
- Small Town Girl as Katherine 'Kay' Brannan
- Ladies in Love as Martha Karenye
1935
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Molly Larkins
- One More Spring as Elizabeth Cheney
1934
- Carolina as Joanna Tate
- Change of Heart as Catherine Furness
- Servants' Entrance as Hedda Nilsson aka Helga Brand
1933
- State Fair as Margy Frake
- Paddy the Next Best Thing as Paddy Adair
- Adorable as Marie Christine "Mitzi"
1932
- The First Year as Grace Livingston
- Tess of the Storm Country as Tess Howland
1931
- The Man Who Came Back as Angie Randolph
- Daddy Long Legs as Judy Abbott
- Delicious as Heather Gordon
- Merely Mary Ann as Mary Ann
1930
- High Society Blues as Eleanor Divine
1929
- Lucky Star as Mary Tucker
- Sunny Side Up as Molly Carr
- Happy Days as Janet Gaynor
- Christina as Christina
1928
- 4 Devils as Marion
- Street Angel as Angela
1927
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans as The Wife (Indre)
- 7th Heaven as Diane
- The Horse Trader as (uncredited)
- Two Girls Wanted as Marianna Wright
- With Love and Hisses as Extra
1926
- The Johnstown Flood as Anna Burger
- Martin of the Mounted as (uncredited)
- The Blue Eagle as Rose Kelly
- Skinner's Dress Suit as Party Guest (Uncredited)
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
- The Beautiful Cheat as Extra
- The Galloping Cowboy as Extra (uncredited)
- The Shamrock Handicap as Lady Sheila O'Hara
- The Man in the Saddle as Doubtful (uncredited)
- Ridin' for Love as Girl
- Don't Shoot as Girl
- The Midnight Kiss as Mildred Hastings
- Oh! What a Nurse! as (uncredited)
- The Stolen Ranch as Extra
- A Punch in the Nose as Bathing Beauty (uncredited)
- The Return of Peter Grimm as Catherine
- The Gunless Bad Man as Gertrude Dowell
- Fade Away Foster as (uncredited)
- Lazy Lightning as (uncredited)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Slave Girl (uncredited)
- The Plastic Age as Co-ed (uncredited)
- The Teaser as (uncredited)
- The Haunted Honeymoon as (uncredited)
- The Burning Trail as (uncredited)
- Dangerous Innocence as (uncredited)
- Flaming Flappers as One of the Co-Eds (uncredited)
- The Crook Buster as (uncredited)
1924
- Young Ideas as (uncredited)
- Cupid's Rustler as (uncredited)
- All Wet as Extra (uncredited)