Janet Gaynor Movies

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

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...

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...

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

After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house...

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

The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and...

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

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...

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.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds...

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

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