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...

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,...

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

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

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

A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era.

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

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

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 dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

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

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...

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

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

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

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