
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 |
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Most Rating | 1.382 |
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
7.8/817
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
7.131/217
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
7/52
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

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

1938

The Young in Heart
6.6/24
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

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
A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.
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A Punch in the Nose

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
6.3/22
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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State Fair

1927

7th Heaven
7.4/96
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
7.3/11
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
5.7/3
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
7.5/38
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
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus. Lost film.
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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

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

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
4/3
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
6.25/4
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
6/2
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

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

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
6.8/8
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
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The Johnstown Flood

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

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
5/25
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
6.1/21
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

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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Oh! What a Nurse!

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

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

1925

Dangerous Innocence
0/0
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with h...
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Dangerous Innocence

1925

The Teaser
1/1
Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a village hotel, where she meets James McDonald, a breez...
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The Teaser

1926

The Beautiful Cheat
0/0
A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary r...
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The Beautiful Cheat

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

1926

The Stolen Ranch
5.8/3
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?

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3/103
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
5.9/11
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...
6.971/52
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

1925

The Crook Buster
0/0
A 1925 silent Western
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The Crook Buster

1926

The Gunless Bad Man
0/0
A band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of firearms to hold up the owner and escape wit...
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The Gunless Bad Man

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

Fade Away Foster
0/0
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Fade Away Foster

1926

The Galloping Cowboy
0/0
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

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

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 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

Martin of the Mounted
0/0
Martin, the heroine's father is falsely believed to be in league with fur thieves, but the real villain, not content with robbing the old man of his f...
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Martin of the Mounted

1927

The Horse Trader
0/0
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The Horse Trader

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

1924

All Wet
5.2/4
Charley Chase has car trouble.
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