Janet Gaynor Movies

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...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

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...

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...

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

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

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

The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and...

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...

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

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

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

Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.

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

Mother - The hand that rocks the family - and rocks it often! A family comedy.

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has...