Janet Gaynor Movies

Sunrise

82/100

An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made flesh - one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife.

A Star Is Born

76/100

A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, but achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

7th Heaven

78/100

A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

Street Angel

75/100

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.

The Young in Heart

73/100

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.

Lucky Star

79/100

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 »

Small Town Girl

67/100

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 »

State Fair

69/100

An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak, when they spend a week at the state fair.

Ladies in Love

65/100

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 »

Three Loves Has Nancy

65/100

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

Sunnyside Up

67/100

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 »

The Farmer Takes a Wife

64/100

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 »

Change of Heart

62/100

After graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.

Bernardine

58/100

High school students enter a fictional woman's name (Bernardine Mudd) in a contest. The contestant wins and hilarity ensues.

Delicious

59/100

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

The Blue Eagle

56/100

4 Devils

74/100

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

Adorable

62/100

Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. But will this ordinary man love her back ... See full summary »

Daddy Long Legs

68/100

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 »

Tess of the Storm Country

69/100

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 coast of Maine, but not for long. A ... See full summary »

One More Spring

68/100

Servants' Entrance

75/100

Servants' Entrance is a 1934 American Pre-Code musical comedy film. The movie was written by Samson Raphaelson from the Sigrid Boo novel and directed by Frank Lloyd, with a cartoon sequence... See full summary »

The Man Who Came Back

61/100

Carolina

66/100

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

Paddy the Next Best Thing

63/100