Janet Gaynor Ranked
A ranking of Janet Gaynor's film performances.
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- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanJack ConwayVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorFredric MarchAdolphe MenjouA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanRobert Z. LeonardStarsJanet GaynorRobert TaylorBinnie BarnesKay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk, then proceeds to take her out for a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when he decides--while drunk--that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The next morning, Bob, once he sobers up, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for six months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorWill RogersLew AyresAn Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorHenry FondaCharles BickfordCharming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider leaving the exciting life on the canal for a banal one on a farm...
- DirectorRichard WallaceLewis MilestoneGilbert PrattStarsJanet GaynorDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Roland YoungThrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsGeorge O'BrienFlorence GilbertJanet GaynorFollows Tom O'Day, who is loved by two women: Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. He has no idea of Anna's love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJanet GaynorWarner BaxterUna MerkelWealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly 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. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellWilliam Collier Sr.When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her mother wishes for her, the tension between the two families raises. While both fathers fight each other in business, their daughter and son get closer.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellJames DunnAfter graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellDudley DiggesWhen Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting too old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long: local millionaire,Frederick Garfield lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves that he is not just a younger edition of his curmudgeon father.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJanet GaynorRobert MontgomeryFranchot ToneA small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellEl BrendelA comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJanet GaynorLew AyresNed SparksThe daughter of a rich man going through financial difficulties takes a job as a maid and falls in love with the chauffeur.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJanet GaynorHenri GaratC. Aubrey SmithJanet 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. But will this ordinary man love her back once he finds out she's a princess?
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsAlec B. FrancisJohn RocheJanet GaynorThe fondest wish of Peter Grimm, elderly patriarch of a famous tulip growing family, is that his ward Kate will marry his nephew and primary heir, Fredrick. Though she loves another, she agrees to marry Fredrick. When Grimm dies, Fredrick reveals his true colors, and intends to sell the nursery. Grimm's ghost returns and regrets forcing his will on the others and works to change things.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorWarner BaxterWalter Woolf KingOne More Spring is a 1935 film about three people (Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, and Walter Woolf King) living together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets. The film was written by Edwin J. Burke from the Robert Nathan novel and directed.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsJanet GaynorLoretta YoungConstance BennettThree 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. The third marries a businessman. The first girl gets a shop of her own.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJanet GaynorCharles MortonRudolph SchildkrautChristina 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 them.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMinna Gombell"The First Year" was a 1920 play that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 performances. In 1932, a film adapted from the Craven play was written by Lynn Starling. The film starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and was directed by William K. Howard. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Street Angel" (1928), and "Lucky Star" (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise" (1927).
- DirectorJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorWilliam RussellGeorge and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them, making them settle their differences through a boxing fight.