List of the best Janet Gaynor movies: Street Angel(1928), A Star Is Born(1937), The Young in Heart(1938), Small Town Girl(1936), Three Loves Has Nancy(1938), The Farmer Takes a Wife(1935), Sunny Side Up(1929), 4 Devils(1928), Ladies in Love(1936), Delicious(1931), Daddy Long Legs(1931), The Shamrock Handicap(1926) ... ...
Drama
USA
1928
102 Minutes
Angela
Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Alberto Rabagliati Cino Conti Guido Trento Henry Armetta Louis Liggett Milton Dickinson Helena Herman Natalie Kingston Dave Kashner
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Janet Gaynor Fredric March Adolphe Menjou May Robson Andy Devine Lionel Stander Franklin Pangborn Owen Moore J.C. Nugent Clara Blandick Peggy Wood
actor actress engaging emotional touching hollywood, calif. movie set aging alcoholism love ambition actors love sacrifice quest 1930s
A 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.
Comedy
USA
1938
91 Minutes
George-Anne Carleton
Janet Gaynor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Paulette Goddard Roland Young
father mother son daughter elderly person lawyer amusing charming mellow french riviera london house car office fortune hunters family spinster inheritance love schemes
Thrown 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.
Romance
USA
1936
90 Minutes
country girl wealthy man parent fiancée suitor wife amusing heartwarming mushy boston apartment operating room yacht small town marriage scandal secret relationships divorce lycanthropy
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 Dakin, who asks her for directions while ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1938
69 Minutes
Janet Gaynor Robert Montgomery Franchot Tone Guy Kibbee Claire Dodd Reginald Owen Cora Witherspoon Emma Dunn Charley Grapewin Lester Matthews
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Drama
USA
1935
91 Minutes
Janet Gaynor Henry Fonda Charles Bickford Slim Summerville Andy Devine Roger Imhof Jane Withers Margaret Hamilton Sig Ruman John Qualen Kitty Kelly
farmer cook bully boat captain dentist love interest amusing spirited new york state fair boat love triangle fighting marriage cowardice money rural life love underdog transformation
Charming 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 ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
80 Minutes
Molly Carr
Molly 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 ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1928
97 Minutes
Marion
Janet Gaynor Anders Randolf Barry Norton Charles Morton Andre Cheron George Davis Nancy Drexel
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.
Comedy
USA
1936
97 Minutes
Janet Gaynor Loretta Young Constance Bennett Simone Simon Don Ameche Paul Lukas Tyrone Power Alan Mowbray Wilfrid Lawson J. Edward Bromberg Virginia Field
salesgirl model nobleman doctor roommate magician melodramatic spirited amusing budapest, hungary apartment doctor's office shop romance marriage ambition rags to riches growing up discovery 1930s
Three 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... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1931
106 Minutes
Heather Gordon
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Judy Abbott
Janet Gaynor Warner Baxter Una Merkel John Arledge Claude Gillingwater Effie Ellsler Kendall McComas Kathlyn Williams Elizabeth Patterson Louise Closser Hale
Wealthy 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 ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1926
66 Minutes
Janet Gaynor Leslie Fenton Willard Louis J. Farrell MacDonald Claire McDowell Louis Payne Georgie Harris
The story of Sir Miles O'Hara and his daughter, who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on time.
Drama
1927
119 Minutes
Diane
Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Ben Bard David Butler Marie Mosquini Albert Gran
sewer cleaner prostitute sister police officer charming emotional moving paris apartment street sewer romance poverty world war i prostitution schemes separation love 1910s
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
Drama, Romance
USA
1929
85 Minutes
Charles Farrell Janet Gaynor Hedwiga Reicher Paul Fix Hector V. Sarno
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, where he is wounded and loses the use of his... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
96 Minutes
Will Rogers Janet Gaynor Lew Ayres Sally Eilers Norman Foster Louise Dresser Frank Craven Victor Jory Frank Melton John Sheehan
An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak, when they spend a week at the state fair.
Western
USA
1926
73 Minutes
Rose Kelly
George O'Brien Janet Gaynor William Russell Robert Edeson David Butler Philip Ford Ralph Sipperly Margaret Livingston Jerry Madden Harry Tenbrook Lew Short
George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose, the local policeman's daughter. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them ... See full summary »