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Janet Gaynor : Oscar Winning Actress

 Janet Gaynor was conceived Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a youngster, she and her folks moved to San Francisco, California, where she moved on from secondary school in 1923. She then, at that point, moved to Los
Angeles where she signed up for a secretarial school. She found a new line of work at a shoe store for the royal amount of $18 each week. In any case, since L.A. was the place where there is stars and studios, she needed to take a shot at acting. She figured out how to land unbilled bit parts in a few element movies and satire shorts. She stuck around for her opportunity, accepting "Fate blesses patient people." She didn't need to stand by excessively long, by the same token. In 1926, at 20 years old, she turned in a sublime exhibition as Anna Burger in The Flood (1926). The Hollywood magnates realized they had a top star on all fours her in a few other driving jobs that year, including The Shamrock Handicap (1926), The Blue Eagle (1926), The Midnight Kiss (1926) and The Return of Peter Grimm (1926). The following year she turned in acclaimed exhibitions in two exemplary movies, seventh Heaven (1927) and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). In view of the strength of those two movies in addition to Street Angel (1928), Janet got the absolute first Academy Award for best entertainer. This was the solitary time an entertainer won the Oscar for quite some time. At the point when "talkies" supplanted quiet movies, Janet was one of only a handful of exceptional who made an effective change, in view of her incredible acting capacity as well as for her enchanting voice also. Indeed, Janet had effectively carried on with a genuine poverty to newfound wealth story. All through the mid-1930s she was the top drawing star at theaters. She turned in stupendous exhibitions in a few in any case unexceptional movies.


Then, at that point, came A Star Is Born (1937). She was extremely persuading as Vicki Lester (also known as Esther Blodgett), battling entertainer going after for easy street. Told by the assistant at Central projecting "You know what your possibilities are? One out of many thousand," Esther/Vicki answers, "Yet perhaps - I'm that one." For her remarkable exhibition she was named for another Oscar, however lost to Luise Rainer's presentation in The Good Earth (1937), her second in as many attempts. Subsequent to showing up in The Young in Heart (1938), Janet didn't show up in one more film until 1957's Bernardine (1957). Her last exhibition was in a Broadway variant of Harold and Maude. Albeit the play was a failure, Janet's presentation rescued it to any degree - she actually had what it took to engage the general population. On September 14, 1984, Janet died from pneumonia in Palm Springs, California, at 77 years old.


In the wake of moving on from secondary school in San Francisco, Janet moved to Los Angeles and enlisted at a Hollywood secretarial school. Anxious to get into films, she began filling in as an additional an in parody shorts. In 1925, she was employed by Fox and was projected in The Flood (1926). In 1927 she showed up in seventh Heaven (1927) as Diane and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) as the spouse at serious risk. For those two films and the Street Angel (1928), Janet got the principal Oscar for best entertainer. She was to become perhaps the greatest star at Fox. She was collaborated with Charles Farrell in 11 movies through and through as she went from "the World's Sweetheart" to "America's cherished people in love".


At the point when sound came in, Janet didn't think twice since her voice made an interpretation of well to sound. In the majority of these movies, including the melodic talkie Sunny Side Up (1929), Janet played the helpless little starving stray who succumbs to Farrell. By 1934, she was Hollywood's top film industry fascination. Fox and Janet started to differ on the jobs that were relegated to her and as her prominence disappeared, the jobs turned out to be more regrettable. She left Fox in 1936 yet gave such an incredible execution in A Star Is Born (1937) that she was named for an Academy Award. By then, at that point, her first marriage had finished and she made just two additional movies. She resigned from the screen when she wedded Hollywood ensemble fashioner Gilbert Adrian in 1939. She got back to the screen just again to show up as Pat Boone's mom in Bernardine (1957).


Until 1986, she was the youngest leading actress to be awarded an Oscar.

Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA, Section B, east side of lake.

She was the first actress to win the Academy Award as best actress. In the early years, actors could receive one Oscar for several films. Gaynor won for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928).


LivedOct 06, 1906 - Sep 14, 1984 (age 77)
Height5 feet 0 inches (1.52 m)
SpousePaul Gregory (1964 - 1984) · Adrian (1939 - 1959) · Jesse Lydell Peck (1929 - 1933)
BuriedHollywood Forever Cemetery
ChildrenRobin Gaynor Adrian (Son)


List of Janet Gaynor Movies

2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
2013 Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored as Herself (archive footage)
1977 The Love Boat (1 episode) as Violet Hooper
1975 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as (archive footage)
1965 Hollywood My Home Town
1957 Bernardine as Mrs. Ruth Wilson
1953 The Oscars (3 episodes) as Self
1953 General Electric Theater (1 episode)
1950 Lux Video Theatre (1 episode)
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as (archive footage)
1938 Three Loves Has Nancy as Nancy Briggs
1938 The Young in Heart as George-Anne Carleton
1937 A Star Is Born as Esther Victoria 'Vicki Lester' Blodgett
1936 Ladies In Love as Martha Karenye
1936 Small Town Girl as Katherine 'Kay' Brannan
1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife as Molly Larkins
1935 One More Spring as Elizabeth Cheney
1934 Servants' Entrance as Hedda Nilsson aka Helga Brand
1934 Change of Heart as Catherine Furness
1934 Carolina as Joanna Tate
1933 Paddy the Next Best Thing as Paddy Adair
1933 Adorable as Marie Christine "Mitzi"
1933 State Fair as Margy Frake
1932 Tess of the Storm Country as Tess Howland
1932 The First Year as Grace Livingston
1931 Delicious as Heather Gordon
1931 Merely Mary Ann as Mary Ann
1931 Daddy Long Legs as Judy Abbott
1931 The Man Who Came Back as Angie Randolph
1930 High Society Blues as Eleanor Divine
1929 Sunny Side Up as Molly Carr
1929 Christina as Christina
1929 Happy Days as Herself
1929 Lucky Star as Mary Tucker
1928 4 Devils as Marion
1928 Street Angel as Angela
1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans as The Wife (Indre)
1927 Two Girls Wanted as Marianna Wright
1927 With Love and Hisses as Extra
1927 The Horse Trader as (uncredited)
1927 7th Heaven as Diane
1926 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
1926 The Stolen Ranch as Extra
1926 Martin of the Mounted as (uncredited)
1926 The Return of Peter Grimm as Catherine
1926 The Midnight Kiss as Mildred Hastings
1926 The Blue Eagle as Rose Kelly
1926 Don't Shoot as Girl
1926 The Man in the Saddle as Doubtful (uncredited)
1926 The Galloping Cowboy as Extra (uncredited)
1926 The Shamrock Handicap as Lady Sheila O'Hara
1926 Fade Away Foster as (uncredited)
1926 Ridin' for Love as Girl
1926 The Gunless Bad Man as Gertrude Dowell
1926 The Johnstown Flood as Anna Burger
1926 A Punch in the Nose as Bathing Beauty (uncredited)
1925 Flaming Flappers as One of the Co-Eds (uncredited)
1925 The Crook Buster as (uncredited)
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Slave Girl (uncredited)
1925 The Plastic Age as Co-ed (uncredited)
1925 The Haunted Honeymoon as (uncredited)
1924 Young Ideas as (uncredited)
1924 Cupid's Rustler as (uncredited)
1924 All Wet as Extra (uncredited)


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