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Janet Gaynor is a Actor American born on 6 october 1906 at Philadelphia (USA)

Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor participated to 46 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 5 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actress

7th Heaven
7th Heaven (1927)
, 2h
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, George E. Stone, Albert Gran, David Butler
Roles Diane
Rating75% 3.7936453.7936453.7936453.7936453.793645
Chico travaille dans les égouts mais rêve de balayer les rues pour voir la couleur du ciel. Se lamentant sur son sort, il nie l'existence de Dieu au prétexte de sa condition actuelle. Il a prié et donné dix francs dans une église sans obtenir la moindre réalisation de ses vœux. Mais le père Chevillon entendant sa plainte lui offre deux médailles religieuses et lui offre le poste de balayeur dont il rêve. Diane vit dans la misère, battue et rejetée à la rue par sa sœur qui lui reproche d'avoir avoué leurs vies immorales à l'oncle riche qui leur proposait une vie meilleure. Prostrée dans un caniveau, elle pleure sur son sort.
State Fair
State Fair (1933)
, 1h40
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Louise Dresser, Norman Foster
Roles Margy Frake
Rating66% 3.3424053.3424053.3424053.3424053.342405
Un fermier de l'Iowa et sa famille se rendent à la foire annuelle de Des Moines, la capitale de l'Iowa. Ses enfants y trouveront l'amour, avec plus ou moins de bonheur.
Street Angel, 1h42
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati, Guido Trento, Henry Armetta, Natalie Kingston
Roles Angela
Rating72% 3.643453.643453.643453.643453.64345
A spirited young woman (Gaynor) finds herself involved in illegal ways of gaining money to help pay for her ill mother's medicine. She is caught in the act, runs away from punishment, and finds her mother dead. Destitute and on the streets, she joins a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter (Farrell). Though they fall in love, her past won't leave her alone.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1h35
Directed by Herman Bing, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, Arthur Housman, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles The Wife (Indre)
Rating80% 4.0479554.0479554.0479554.0479554.047955
A vacationing Woman from the City (Margaret Livingston) lingers in a lakeside town for weeks. After dark, she goes to a farmhouse where the Man (George O'Brien) and the Wife (Janet Gaynor) live with their child. She whistles from the fence outside. The Man is torn, but finally departs, leaving his wife with the memories of better times when they were deeply in love.
4 Devils
4 Devils (1928)
, 1h40
Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Circus films, Films about children
Actors Janet Gaynor, Charles Morton, Anders Randolf, Barry Norton, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Davis
Roles Marion
Rating70% 3.526323.526323.526323.526323.52632
The plot concerns four orphans (Janet Gaynor, Nancy Drexel, Barry Norton, and Charles Morton) who become a high wire act, and centers around sinister goings-on at a circus.