Janet Gaynor Movie Rankings
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 3.7687 out of 4 stars for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
3.7687
A gorgeous big city woman vacations in a small farming community where she begins a relationship with a married man. The woman encourages the man to "accidentally" drown his wife. At the prospects of a new love, he envisions what his life might be like in the big city. ... more about Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $18.56 
(3 sellers)
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 3.2406 out of 4 stars for Seventh Heaven
3.2406
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif. ... more about Seventh Heaven
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.5159 out of 4 stars for Star Is Born
2.5159
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. ... more about Star Is Born
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
DVD from $0.01 
(5 sellers)
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.4382 out of 4 stars for Three Loves Has Nancy
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The seduction plans of novelist Malcolm Niles go awry when actress Vivian Herford brings along her mother to a candlelight dinner in his New York apartment. ... more about Three Loves Has Nancy
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.3515 out of 4 stars for Small Town Girl
2.3515
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 Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. ... more about Small Town Girl
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.3195 out of 4 stars for Young in Heart
2.3195
The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss Fortune. ... more about Young in Heart
DVD from $2.83 
(4 sellers)
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.0547 out of 4 stars for Lucky Star
2.0547
Mary (Janet Gaynor), a poor farm girl, meets Tim (Charles Farrell) just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. ... more about Lucky Star
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Carolina
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for 4 Devils
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Adorable
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Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. ... more about Adorable
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Bernardine
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Change of Heart
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Janet Gaynor and James Dunn and their close friends Charles Farrell and Ginger Rogers graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work. ... more about Change of Heart
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Christina
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Daddy Long Legs
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Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. ... more about Daddy Long Legs
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Delicious
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A varied group of immigrants head for the USA aboard S.S. Mauronia, including Russians Sascha, Mischa, Toscha, and Olga. Sascha has fallen for Scots lassie Heather; Olga is courted by Chris Jansen, valet of first class passenger Larry Beaumont. ... more about Delicious
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Farmer Takes a Wife
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Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer (Henry Fonda in his film debut) works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. ... more about Farmer Takes a Wife
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Happy Days
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Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. ... more about Happy Days
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Ladies in Love
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Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. ... more about Ladies in Love
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars
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Eight directors and eighteen former Wampas stars act as judges in choosing 1941's crop of future stars, several of whom were never seen again. Reviewers at the time agreed that Joan Leslie was the most promising of the lot. ... more about Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Shamrock Handicap
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Trovatosi in grosse difficoltà economiche, un vecchio nobiluomo irlandese è costretto a vendere parte della propria scuderia ad un possidente Americano, che si porta via anche il suo miglior fantino. ... more about Shamrock Handicap
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for State Fair
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Street Angel
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Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
Not Available on DVD
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Janet Gaynor scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Sunny Side Up
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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 Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. ... more about Sunny Side Up
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Janet Gaynor
Birthdate:
October 6, 1906
Death date:
September 14, 1984

Janet Gaynor

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1920s
16
total ranking of 2.7235  2.7235
1930s
20
total ranking of 2.3469  2.3469
1940s
1
No Reviews
1950s
1
No Reviews
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.1619
Janet Gaynor is ranked overall as 2.1619 of of 4 stars
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