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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

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.

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.

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...

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

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,...

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

"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...

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

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

A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.

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