Janet Gaynor

First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings in ‘The Last Command.’ First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings, first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM First Best Actor Academy Award winner Emil Jannings in The Last Command, first Best Actress Academy Award winner…

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven. Long history of real and manufactured box-office-boosting off-screen romances Long before tabloids and tabloid-wannabes took over as the purveyors of entertainment “news,” throughout the decades the studios themselves have publicized idyllic off-screen love stories, whether real or…

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven, which helped – along with Sunrise and Street Angel – to earn Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award. Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven, starring late 1920s lovebirds Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, was the 1927 Photoplay Magazine…

Farrah Fawcett. March 10 update: According to People Online, Farrah Fawcett’s family, friends, and fans have received “an apology” from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis, who reportedly was responsible for the inclusions and omissions in the “In Memoriam” segment…

Annabella, Tyrone Power, Annabella’s daughter Anne, whom Power adopted Tyrone Power V: Sexual Orientation Rumors Janet Gaynor, Sonja Henie, Norma Shearer, Lana Turner – were those romances for real, or were they (or some of them) just publicity stunts? What were his marriages to actresses…

Castro Theatre special screenings: ‘Haunted house’ horror-comedy ‘The Cat and the Canary’ & Oscar-winning ‘Sunrise’ + unique Soviet comedy ‘A Kiss from Mary Pickford’ On Valentine’s Day 2009, Feb. 14, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival will present four notable silents at the Castro Theatre:…

Movie quotes: 2007 Oscar poster celebrates iconic and less-than-iconic bits of film dialogue, from The Great Ziegfeld (1936) to Brokeback Mountain (2005). Somewhat ironically, some of the most memorable movie lines ever uttered actually originated elsewhere; for instance, Marlon Brando’s/Don Corleone’s “I’m gonna make him…

Janet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise, an early Academy Award winner directed by F. W. Murnau. Berlin Film Festival: Women in Silent Films The Retrospective sidebar of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival (website) will feature thirty silent films, divided into four sections, depicting women’s…

The 11th San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theater begins this Friday, July 14. The three-day festival will include screenings of Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven (1927 - Friday, July 14, 8:00pm), a huge box office and critical success at the time, and the…

Janet Gaynor: First Best Actress Academy Award winner “Has anyone in Hollywood ever had a trajectory quite like the career and reputation of Janet Gaynor?” inquires Los Angeles Times film reviewer Kenneth Turan. “Gaynor began as a true silent film goddess,” Turan explains, “but lost…