Cast: Janet Gaynor

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · Margaret Livingston · Bodil Rosing

Synopsis In Sunrise (1927), a farmer from a small village is lured into a passionate affair with a sophisticated woman from the city. She convinces him to drown his wife so they can start a new life together. Tormented by guilt,...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Gladys Brockwell · David Butler

Synopsis Chico (Charles Farrell) is a street cleaner who works in Paris. Diane (Janet Gaynor) is an unlucky woman who is abused by her elder sister. One day, Chico saves her from the beating of her sister and takes her to...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Paul Fix

Synopsis 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, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home...

Direction Fred Niblo

Cast Ramon Novarro · May McAvoy · Francis X. Bushman · Betty Bronson

Synopsis Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be...

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Natalie Kingston · Alberto Rabagliati

Synopsis In Naples, where prostitutes can pay their rent, Angela is sentenced to a year in the workhouse when she tries to steal(while streetwalking) to pay for medicine for her dying mother. She escapes and is hidden by a circus, where...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Synopsis 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 alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor...

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Synopsis Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the Frake family at the Iowa State Fair in the late...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Janet Gaynor · Anders Randolf · Nancy Drexel · Barry Norton

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Janet Gaynor · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Paulette Goddard · Roland Young

Synopsis 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...

Direction John Ford

Cast Janet Gaynor · Leslie Fenton · Willard Louis · J. Farrell MacDonald

Synopsis The Shamrock Handicap is a romantic comedy set in Ireland. The story concerns Sir Miles O'Hara (Louis Payne) and his daughter Sheila (Janet Gaynor), who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on...

Direction Fred Guiol

Cast Glenn Tryon · Charlotte Mineau · Jack Clifford · Sally O'Neil

Synopsis A California family receives a notice that they must make a payment immediately, or else be forced out of their home. The payment must be made at an office in Hollywood, and so Grandpa, his granddaughter, and his grandson Orville...

Direction William A. Wellman · Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Robert Taylor · Binnie Barnes · Andy Devine

Synopsis 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...

Direction John Ford

Cast George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · William Russell · Margaret Livingston

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Minna Gombell · Dudley Digges

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Morton · Rudolph Schildkraut · Harry Cording

Synopsis Christina lives with her father in a Dutch fishing village. A circus arrives and handsome Jan attracts all feminine interests. He and Christina fall in love, but Mrs. Bosman, the circus owner, is after Jan and will try to separate...

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast George O'Brien · Florence Gilbert · Janet Gaynor · Anders Randolf

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Janet Gaynor · Lew Ayres · Ned Sparks · Walter Connolly

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Peter Gawthorne · Charles Farrell · Leslie Fenton · Mary Forbes

Synopsis The popular screen romantic team of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell shocked and surprised their fans in the ultra-melodramatic The Man Who Came Back. Based on a 1916 stage success, the film atypically casts Gaynor as Angie, a San Francisco...

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Alec B. Francis · John Roche · Janet Gaynor · Richard Walling

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · James Dunn · Ginger Rogers

Synopsis Catherinde and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.