Janet Gaynor Movies

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...

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

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...

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,...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

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...

A 1925 silent Western

Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus. Lost film.

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

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

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl,...

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

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

Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.

A band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carrying of firearms to hold up the owner and escape...

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

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the...

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