Janet Gaynor Movies

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...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

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...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

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,...

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...

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

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...

The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and...

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

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...

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate....

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...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

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...

While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas...