Biography: life and films
Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA on 6th October 1906 and died in Palm Springs, California, USA on 14th September 1984, aged 77.Her best films as an actor include Frank Borzage's 7th Heaven (1927), F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), Sunrise (1927), Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929).
Janet Gaynor appeared in 52 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Henry King (4 films), William A. Seiter (3), Frank Borzage (3), F.W. Murnau (3), David Butler (3), William Wyler (2), William K. Howard (2), William A. Wellman (2), John Ford (2), Irving Cummings (2) and Alfred Santell (2).
Her most frequent genres include: comedy (21 films), drama (15), comedy-romance (12), romance (11), comedy-drama (8) and Western (5).
Our average rating for Janet Gaynor over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Cupid's Rustler (1924) [a]
Young Ideas (1924) [a]
Dangerous Innocence (1925) [a]
The Burning Trail (1925) [a]
The Plastic Age (1925) [a]
The Teaser (1925) [a]
Lazy Lightning (1926) [a]
Oh What a Nurse! (1926) [a]
Skinner's Dress Suit (1926) [a]
The Beautiful Cheat (1926) [a]
The Blue Eagle (1926) [a]
The Johnstown Flood (1926) [a]
The Man in the Saddle (1926) [a]
The Midnight Kiss (1926) [a]
The Return of Peter Grimm (1926) [a]
The Shamrock Handicap (1926) [a]
The Stolen Ranch (1926) [a]
Sunrise (1927) [a]
Two Girls Wanted (1927) [a]
4 Devils (1928) [a]
Christina (1929) [a]
Happy Days (1929) [a]
Sunnyside Up (1929) [a]
High Society Blues (1930) [a]
Daddy Long Legs (1931) [a]
Delicious (1931) [a]
Merely Mary Ann (1931) [a]
The Man Who Came Back (1931) [a]
Tess of the Storm Country (1932) [a]
The First Year (1932) [a]
Adorable (1933) [a]
Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) [a]
State Fair (1933) [a]
Carolina (1934) [a]
Change of Heart (1934) [a]
La Ciudad de cartón (1934) [a]
Servants' Entrance (1934) [a]
One More Spring (1935) [a]
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) [a]
Ladies in Love (1936) [a]
Small Town Girl (1936) [a]
A Star Is Born (1937) [a]
The Young in Heart (1938) [a]
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938) [a]
Bernardine (1957) [a]
Hooray for Hollywood (1975) [a]
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
The very best American film comedies
