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.

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 dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

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

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

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

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

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

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

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

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

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.

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

Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly...

Mother - The hand that rocks the family - and rocks it often! A family comedy.