Sweet and Cute vocal number from 1931
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Janet Gaynor sings this 1931 George Gershwin tune: "Somebody From Somewhere"
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Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell (August 9, 1901 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star.
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Darryl F. Zanuck
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F. W. Murnau
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Joan Crawford
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JANET GAYNOR TRIBUTE
In 1928 Janet Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise (1927), Seventh Heaven (1927), and Street Angel (1928). Until 1986, she was the youngest leading actress to be awarded an Oscar
Timeless : Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell
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- Duration: 3:56
- Published: 19 Jul 2010
- Uploaded: 25 Aug 2011
- Author: eveningsinbloom
Tribute to the late silent and early talkies pairing of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Together they made 11 pictures. This video features their first three pictures made under the direction of Frank Borzage: Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928) and Lucky Star (1929).
Mary Martin, Janet Gaynor Car Accident in San Francisco
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- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 28 Oct 2008
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- Author: VideoRewind
KPIX/SF Wendy Tokuda and Doug Murphy report. Larry Hagman arrives at SF General following the traffic accident that involved Mary Martin, Janet Gaynor and companions. September 5, 1982.
A Star Is Born: Starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March (1937)
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- Published: 02 Jan 2011
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- Author: thefilmarchive
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com A Star Is Born is a 1937 Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who helps launch her career. Other members of the cast include Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander and Carole Landis. Cast * Janet Gaynor as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester * Fredric March as Norman Maine * Adolphe Menjou as Oliver Niles * May Robson as Grandmother Lettie * Andy Devine as Daniel 'Danny' McGuire * Lionel Stander as Matt Libby * Owen Moore as Casey Burke * Peggy Wood as Miss Phillips A Star Is Born was filmed from October to December 1936 with an estimated budget of $1173639, and premiered in Los Angeles, California on April 27, 1937 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. In New York, the film premiered at Radio City Music Hall. The scene in the film where Menjou offers the fading star a supporting role was added at the suggestion of George Cukor, who directed the 1954 remake. Early in their careers, Budd Schulberg (then a script reader for David O. Selznick) and Ring Lardner, Jr. (who was working in Selznick's publicity department) were assigned to write some additional dialogue for the film, a collaboration which produced Janet Gaynor's (and the film's) final words, "This is Mrs. Norman Maine." The line was <b>...</b>
An Adorable Film Starring Janet Gaynor and Henri Garat : Part One
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- Published: 09 Apr 2010
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- Author: perfectjazz78
Part One of Ten from 1933 , A rare musical film
Movie Legends - Janet Gaynor
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- Published: 27 May 2008
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- Author: basilnelson
Hollywood leading lady who was the first to win an Oscar for multiple roles in several films in one year.
My Heart's Desire ~ Janet Gaynor ~ 1933
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- Published: 21 Apr 2008
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Janet Gaynor sings "My Heart's Desire" from 1933
ACADEMY AWARDS: BEST ACTRESS 1927-2009
19271928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, and Sunrise as The Wife 19281929 Mary Pickford - Coquette as Norma Besant 19291930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin 19301931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill as Min Divot, Innkeeper 19311932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet 19321933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews 1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous as Joyce Heath 1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held 1937 Luise Rainer - The Good Earth as O-Lan 1938 Bette Davis - Jezebel as Julie Marsden 1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara 1940 Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle as Kitty Foyle 1941 Joan Fontaine - Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth 1942 Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver as Mrs. Miniver 1943 Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous 1944 Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anton 1945 Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce 1946 Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris 1947 Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter as Katrin Holstrom 1948 Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda as Belinda McDonald 1949 Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress as Catherine Sloper 1950 Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday as Emma 'Billie' Dawn 1951 Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois 1952 Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba as Lola Delaney 1953 Audrey Hepburn - Roman <b>...</b>
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
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- Duration: 2:38
- Published: 06 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 14 Jul 2011
- Author: bubblewrap1988
The seventh video in a collection of tributes to classic screen teams.Before screen teams such as Bogart and Bacall and Loy and Powell, there was Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Hugely popular during the late silent years and early talkies, they made 12 films together. They were such a popular screen team during this time that many of their fans assumed they were married. One of their films, Street Angel (1928) is considered a lost film, even though it was one of Fox Studios most popular late silent films.
Cute and Peppy Dance Number In a NYC Neighborhood - 1929
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- Published: 19 Jul 2007
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- Author: perfectjazz78
Janet Gaynor sings an energetic song about the "Sunny Side", I think she was never more radiant than in this number. This also proves that she could both sing and dance ! - 1929
A Star Is Born: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Andy Devine (1937 Movie)
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- Duration: 110:53
- Published: 25 Aug 2011
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- Author: nologorecords
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org A Star Is Born is a 1937 Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who helps launch her career. Other members of the cast include Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander and Carole Landis. The film follows a few years in the lives of Esther Blodgett (Gaynor), a promising young Hollywood starlet known to her fans as "Vicki Lester", and Norman Maine (March), the older, alcoholic actor who started Esther's career as his own career was fading. Vicki Lester rises to international fame and popularity while Maine sinks into obscurity and suicide. The story begins in rural North Dakota, where Esther is a teenage girl determined to become a Hollywood actress. Although her aunt sternly discourages such thoughts, Esther's grandmother encourages her to pursue her dream and gives her money to finance her efforts. Esther goes to Hollywood and begins seeking small parts as an actress. At first, Esther is unable to find any acting work at all. Many other young women are applying for the same parts, and Esther is told that her chances of success are one in 100000. However, one of her neighbors is an assistant director who helps her land a one-time waitressing job at a party for Hollywood film professionals <b>...</b>
Seventh Heaven 1927 Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell
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- Duration: 2:57
- Published: 16 Aug 2010
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- Author: urskogen89
A scene from Frank Borzage's forgotten 1927 masterpiece "Seventh Heaven". With Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. This is how you light a film.
An Adorable Film Starring Janet Gaynor and Henri Garat : Part Two
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- Published: 09 Apr 2010
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- Author: perfectjazz78
Part two of ten, a musical film from 1933.
An Adorable Film Starring Janet Gaynor and Henri Garat : Part Three
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- Duration: 9:04
- Published: 09 Apr 2010
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- Author: perfectjazz78
A 1933 musical film starring Henri Gerat and Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell & Janet Gaynor from Sunny Side Up
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- Duration: 9:45
- Published: 17 Mar 2011
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- Author: TheFilmfanatiker1
Charles Farrell & Janet Gaynor from Sunny Side Up
An Adorable Film Starring Janet Gaynor and Henri Garat : Part Four
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- Duration: 5:23
- Published: 10 Apr 2010
- Uploaded: 02 Dec 2010
- Author: perfectjazz78
This 1933 musical film stars Janet Gaynor and Henri Gerat
ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS deux
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- Duration: 4:23
- Published: 29 Jul 2011
- Uploaded: 06 Aug 2011
- Author: kanikakhanna90210
19271928 Janet Gaynor - Seventh Heaven as Diane, Street Angel as Angela, and Sunrise as The Wife 19281929 Mary Pickford - Coquette as Norma Besant 19291930 Norma Shearer - The Divorcee as Jerry Bernard Martin 19301931 Marie Dressler - Min and Bill as Min Divot, Innkeeper 19311932 Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet as Madelon Claudet 19321933 Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace 1934 Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night as Ellie Andrews 1935 Bette Davis - Dangerous as Joyce Heath 1936 Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld as Anna Held 1937 Luise Rainer - The Good Earth as O-Lan 1938 Bette Davis - Jezebel as Julie Marsden 1939 Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara 1940 Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle as Kitty Foyle 1941 Joan Fontaine - Suspicion as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth 1942 Greer Garson - Mrs. Miniver as Mrs. Miniver 1943 Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette as Bernadette Soubirous 1944 Ingrid Bergman - Gaslight as Paula Alquist Anton 1945 Joan Crawford - Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce 1946 Olivia de Havilland - To Each His Own as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris 1947 Loretta Young - The Farmer's Daughter as Katrin Holstrom 1948 Jane Wyman - Johnny Belinda as Belinda McDonald 1949 Olivia de Havilland - The Heiress as Catherine Sloper 1950 Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday as Emma 'Billie' Dawn 1951 Vivien Leigh - A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois 1952 Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba as Lola Delaney 1953 Audrey Hepburn - Roman <b>...</b>
Timelapse Drawing Janet gaynor
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- Duration: 1:18
- Published: 22 May 2011
- Uploaded: 27 Jun 2011
- Author: noranotorious
Well, I wasn't a huge fan of how this drawing turned out. But I liked the timelapse, and wanted an excuse to play an Eva Cassidy song. Enjoy, thanks for watching, and give me some thumbs up thingies if you love me! Created and uploaded with Timelapse Pro - timelapseapp.dw-c.de
Silent Stars Graves / Deaths - Their Final Journeys - How They Died
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- Duration: 9:42
- Published: 03 Jul 2010
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- Author: finaljourneys
A slideshow with music showcasing silent stars, how they died, where their graves are located. Some stars featured: mary pickford, rudolph valentino, john barrymore, charlie chaplin, harold lloyd, buster keaton, janet gaynor, charles farrell, lillian gish, dorothy gish, bebe daniels, charley chase, max linder, richard barthelmess, edna purviance, jobyna ralston, charles buddy rogers, pola negri, rod la rocque, vilma banky, alice terry, anita page, joan crawford, dorothy sebastian, john gilbert and many more
A Star Is Born (1937) - Fredric March - Janet Gaynor
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- Duration: 1:38
- Published: 29 Jul 2011
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- Author: VindobonaNorikum2
A Star Is Born is a 1937 Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who helps launch her career. Other members of the cast include Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander and Carole Landis.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 1/9
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 18 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 31 Aug 2011
- Author: silentfilmdemocracy
Directed by FW Murnau George O'Brien - The Man Janet Gaynor - The Wife A young farmer falls in love with a tempting woman from the city, who persuades him to try and kill his wife, so they can be together. What will happen when the man has a vision of what the city is really like..? Winner of the 1929 'Best Picture' Oscar for 'Unique and Artistic' Production, and 'Best Actress' for Janet Gaynor.
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Janet Gaynor
| Name | Janet Gaynor |
|---|---|
| Caption | in A Star Is Born (1937) |
| Birth date | October 06, 1906 |
| Birth place | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States |
| Death date | September 14, 1984 |
| Death place | Palm Springs, California,United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Birth name | Laura Augusta Gainor |
| Spouse | Jesse Lydell Peck (1929-1933) Adrian (1939-1959) Paul Gregory (1964-1984) |
| Years active | 1924–1981 |
Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter.
One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937).
She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, the incident contributed to her death two years later.
Early life
Born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her family moved west to San Francisco during her childhood. When she graduated from high school in 1923, Gaynor decided to pursue an acting career. She moved to Los Angeles, where she supported herself working in a shoe store, receiving $18 per week (2009: $}}).She managed to land unbilled small parts in several feature films and comedy shorts for two years. Finally, in 1926, at the age of 20, she was cast in the lead role in The Johnstown Flood (1926), the same year she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars (with Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río and others). Her outstanding performance won her the attention of producers, who cast her in a series of films.
Rising career
Within a year, Gaynor was one of Hollywood's leading ladies. Her performances in Seventh Heaven (the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel (in 1927, also with Charles Farrell) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928. At the time, the award was awarded for multiple roles: it was given on the basis of the actor's total work over the year, and not just for one particular performance. Gaynor was not only the first, but until 1986 (when Marlee Matlin won her Oscar), she was also the youngest actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. At the time of their respective wins, Gaynor was 22 years old and Matlin was 21 years old.Gaynor was one of only a handful of leading ladies who made a successful transition to sound films. For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Delicious (1931), Merely Mary Ann (also 1931) and Adorable (1933). However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple. She managed to terminate her contract with the studio and achieved acclaim in films produced by David O. Selznick in the mid-1930s.
In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born. After appearing in The Young in Heart, she left film industry for nearly twenty years, returning one last time in 1957 as Pat Boone's mother in Bernardine.
In 1939, she played Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Lux Radio Theater episode of January 1, 1939 - Mayerling.
Later life and death
Gaynor was married to producer Paul Gregory from December 24, 1964 to her death on September 14, 1984. Previous marriages were to Jesse Lydell Peck from September 11, 1929 to April 7, 1933, and to MGM costume designer Adrian from August 14, 1939 to his death on September 13, 1959. Gaynor had one son with Adrian, Robin Gaynor Adrian, born in 1940. In addition to acting, Gaynor was an accomplished visual artist and her oil paintings were featured at the Wally Findlay Galleries show in New York, March 25 to April 7, 1977.Gaynor was close friends with actress Mary Martin, with whom she frequently travelled. A Brazilian press report noted that Gaynor and Martin briefly lived with their respective husbands in the state of Goiás in the 1950s and 1960s.
She died on September 14, 1984, at the age of 77, due largely to the aftermath of a traffic accident in San Francisco two years earlier; specifically, her death resulted from complications following several operations. In the accident, a driver named Robert Cato ran a red light at the corner of California Street and Franklin and crashed into her Luxor taxicab. The crash killed Mary Martin's manager Ben Washer and injured the other passengers, including Gaynor's husband Paul Gregory, as well as her close, long-time friend, Mary Martin. Gaynor was in serious condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney. The drunk driver of the van, Robert Cato, was sentenced to a three-year prison term for drunken driving and vehicle manslaughter in the accident.
She was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California next to her second husband Adrian, but her stone reads "Janet Gaynor Gregory" in tribute to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame can be found at 6284 Hollywood Blvd.
Filmography
Features
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9; |- align="center" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- |rowspan=2|1924 |Cupid's Rustler | |uncredited |- |Young Ideas | |uncredited |- |rowspan=4|1925 |Dangerous Innocence | |uncredited |- |The Burning Trail | |uncredited |- |The Teaser | |uncredited |- |The Plastic Age | |uncredited |- |rowspan=13|1926 |A Punch in the Nose |Bathing Beauty |uncredited |- |The Beautiful Cheat | |uncredited |- |The Johnstown Flood |Anna Burger | |- |Oh What a Nurse! | |uncredited |- |Skinner's Dress Suit | |uncredited |- |The Shamrock Handicap |Lady Sheila O'Hara | |- |The Galloping Cowboy | |uncredited |- |The Man in the Saddle | |uncredited |- |The Blue Eagle |Rose Kelly | |- |The Midnight Kiss |Mildred Hastings | |- |The Return of Peter Grimm |Catherine | |- |Lazy Lightning | |uncredited |- |The Stolen Ranch | |uncredited |- |rowspan=3|1927 | Two Girls Wanted | Marianna Wright | |- |Seventh Heaven |Diane |Academy Award for Best Actress |- |Sunrise | The Wife - Indre | Academy Award for Best Actress |- |rowspan=2|1928 |Street Angel | Angela |Academy Award for Best Actress |- |4 Devils |Marion |lost film |- |rowspan=4|1929 |Lucky Star |Mary Tucker | |- |Happy Days |Herself | |- |Christina |Christina | |- |Sunny Side Up |Mary Carr | |- |1930 |High Society Blues |Eleanor Divine | |- |rowspan=4|1931 |The Man Who Came Back |Angie Randolph | |- |Daddy Long Legs |Judy Abbott | |- |Merely Mary Ann |Mary Ann | |- |Delicious |Heather Gordon | |- |rowspan=2|1932 |The First Year |Grace Livingston | |- |Tess of the Storm Country |Tess Howland | |- |rowspan=3|1933 |State Fair |Margy Frake | |- |Adorable |Princess Marie Christine, aka Mitzi | |- |Paddy the Next Best Thing |Paddy Adair | |- |rowspan=4|1934 |Carolina |Joanna Tate | |- |The Cardboard City |Herself |Cameo |- |Change of Heart |Catherine Furness | |- |Servants' Entrance |Hedda Nilsson aka Helga Brand | |- |rowspan=2|1935 |One More Spring |Elizabeth Cheney | |- |The Farmer Takes a Wife |Molly Larkins | |- |rowspan=2|1936 |Small Town Girl |Katherine 'Kay' Brannan | |- |Ladies in Love |Martha Kerenye | |- |1937 |A Star Is Born |Esther Victoria Blodgett, aka Vicki Lester |Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actress |- |rowspan=2|1938 |Three Loves Has Nancy |Nancy Briggs | |- |The Young in Heart |George-Anne Carleton | |- |1957 |Bernardine |Mrs. Ruth Wilson | |- |}
Short Subjects
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" border="2" cellpadding="4" background: #f9f9f9; |- align="center" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes |- |1924 |All Wet | |uncredited |- |rowspan=2|1925 |The Haunted Honeymoon | |uncredited |- |The Crook Buster | |uncredited |- |rowspan=8|1926 |WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 |Herself | |- |Ridin' for Love | |uncredited |- |Fade Away Foster | |uncredited |- |The Fire Barrier | |uncredited |- |Don't Shoot | |uncredited |- |Pep of the Lazy J |June Adams |uncredited |- |Martin of the Mounted | |uncredited |- |45 Minutes from Hollywood | |uncredited |- |1927 |The Horse Trader | |uncredited |- |1941 |Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars |Herself | |}
References
Further reading
External links
Category:American film actors Category:American silent film actors Category:Best Actress Academy Award winners Category:Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Category:People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Category:Deaths from pneumonia Category:1906 births Category:1984 deaths Category:Infectious disease deaths in California Category:20th-century actors
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