From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored | Self (archive footage) | 2013-01-29 |
Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
Movie | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood | Self | 1960-01-10 |
Movie | Bernardine | Mrs. Ruth Wilson | 1957-07-24 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self (archive footage) | 1940-07-31 |
Movie | The Young in Heart | George-Anne Carleton | 1938-07-06 |
Movie | Three Loves Has Nancy | Nancy Briggs | 1938-09-02 |
Movie | A Star Is Born | Esther Blodgett / Vicki Lester | 1937-04-27 |
Movie | Small Town Girl | Katherine 'Kay' Brannan | 1936-04-10 |
Movie | Ladies In Love | Martha Karenye | 1936-10-09 |
Movie | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Molly Larkins | 1935-07-05 |
Movie | One More Spring | Elizabeth Cheney | 1935-02-15 |
Movie | Carolina | Joanna Tate | 1934-02-02 |
Movie | Servants' Entrance | Hedda Nilsson aka Helga Brand | 1934-09-25 |
Movie | Change of Heart | Catherine Furness | 1934-05-18 |
Movie | State Fair | Margy Frake | 1933-02-10 |
Movie | Paddy the Next Best Thing | Paddy Adair | 1933-09-01 |
Movie | Adorable | Marie Christine "Mitzi" | 1933-05-18 |
Movie | The First Year | Grace Livingston | 1932-07-30 |
Movie | Tess of the Storm Country | Tess Howland | 1932-11-20 |
Movie | The Man Who Came Back | Angie Randolph | 1931-01-11 |
Movie | Daddy Long Legs | Judy Abbott | 1931-06-05 |
Movie | Delicious | Heather Gordon | 1931-12-27 |
Movie | Merely Mary Ann | Mary Ann | 1931-09-06 |
Movie | High Society Blues | Eleanor Divine | 1930-03-23 |
Movie | Lucky Star | Mary Tucker | 1929-08-18 |
Movie | Happy Days | Herself | 1929-09-16 |
Movie | Sunny Side Up | Molly Carr | 1929-12-25 |
Movie | Christina | Christina | 1929-12-15 |
Movie | Street Angel | Angela | 1928-04-09 |
Movie | 4 Devils | Marion | 1928-10-03 |
Movie | 7th Heaven | Diane | 1927-09-10 |
Movie | With Love and Hisses | Extra | 1927-08-28 |
Movie | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | The Wife (Indre) | 1927-11-04 |
Movie | The Shamrock Handicap | Lady Sheila O'Hara | 1926-05-02 |
Movie | Skinner's Dress Suit | 1926-04-18 | |
Movie | The Johnstown Flood | Anna Burger | 1926-02-28 |
Movie | The Galloping Cowboy | Extra (uncredited) | 1926-05-16 |
Movie | 45 Minutes from Hollywood | Hotel Guest (uncredited) | 1926-12-26 |
Movie | The Blue Eagle | Rose Kelly | 1926-09-12 |
Movie | The Stolen Ranch | Extra | 1926-12-26 |
Movie | The Return of Peter Grimm | Catherine | 1926-12-07 |
Movie | The Plastic Age | Co-ed (uncredited) | 1925-12-15 |
Movie | Flaming Flappers | One of the Co-Eds (uncredited) | 1925-12-27 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Slave Girl (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
Movie | All Wet | Extra (uncredited) | 1924-01-01 |
Movie | Young Ideas | (uncredited) | 1924-07-07 |