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Birthdate: October 6, 1906
Death date: September 14, 1984
Janet Gaynor
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.5052
16
1930s
2.3469
20
1940s
No Reviews
1
1950s
No Reviews
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.0683
2.0683
Janet Gaynor Movie Rankings
1
3.7687A 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 $18.82
(8 sellers)
2
2.6452
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
3
2.5159Esther 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 $1.99
(14 sellers)
4
2.4382
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
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
6
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 $7.89
(10 sellers)
7
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
10
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
13
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
15
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
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
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
19
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
22
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
24
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
32
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
34
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Not Available on DVD
35
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
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