TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Janet Gaynor.

Janet Gaynor
Birthdate: October 6, 1906
Death date: September 14, 1984

Janet Gaynor

ACTOR RANKINGS:

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.5052
16
total ranking of 2.5052
1930s
2.3469
20
total ranking of 2.3469
1940s
No Reviews
1
1950s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Janet Gaynor is ranked overall as 2.0683 of of 4 stars2.0683

Janet Gaynor Movie Rankings

1
Janet Gaynor starring in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 3.7687 out of 4 stars for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans3.7687
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
2
Janet Gaynor starring in Seventh Heaven
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.6452 out of 4 stars for Seventh Heaven2.6452
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Not Available on DVD
3
Janet Gaynor starring in Star Is Born
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.5159 out of 4 stars for Star Is Born2.5159
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
4
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.4382 out of 4 stars for Three Loves Has Nancy2.4382
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
5
Small Town Girl (1936)
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.3515 out of 4 stars for Small Town Girl2.3515
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
6
Young in Heart, The (1938)
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.3195 out of 4 stars for Young in Heart2.3195
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
7
Lucky Star (1929)
Janet Gaynor scores a combined 2.0547 out of 4 stars for Lucky Star2.0547
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
8
Carolina (1934)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
9
4 Devils (1928)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
10
Adorable (1933)
No Reviews Available
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
  • Not Available on DVD
11
Bernardine (1957)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
12
Blue Eagle, The (1926)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
13
Change of Heart (1934)
No Reviews Available
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
14
Christina (1929)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
15
Daddy Long Legs (1931)
No Reviews Available
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
16
Delicious (1931)
No Reviews Available
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
17
Farmer Takes a Wife, The (1935)
No Reviews Available
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
18
First Year, The (1932)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
19
Happy Days (1929/I)
No Reviews Available
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
20
High Society Blues (1930)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Johnstown Flood, The (1926)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
22
Ladies in Love (1936)
No Reviews Available
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
23
Man Who Came Back, The (1931)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941)
No Reviews Available
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
25
Merely Mary Ann (1931)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
26
Midnight Kiss, The (1926)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
27
One More Spring (1935)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
29
Pep of the Lazy J (1926)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
30
Return of Peter Grimm, The (1926)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
31
Servants' Entrance (1934)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
32
Shamrock Handicap, The (1926)
No Reviews Available
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
33
State Fair (1933)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
34
Street Angel (1928)
No Reviews Available
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
  • Not Available on DVD
35
Sunny Side Up (1929)
No Reviews Available
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
  • Not Available on DVD
36
Tess of the Storm Country (1932)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
37
Two Girls Wanted (1927)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
38
WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD