Movies: Janet Gaynor

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

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 idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Les...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as...

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 in love....

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 itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of th...

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

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 legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are power...

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

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

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 Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town...

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

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble....

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....

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 happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers...

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889....

Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they call a temporary truce to take on dope peddlers who are destroying their neighborhood....

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

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