Janet Gaynor Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

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

Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly...

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

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...

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

Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.

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,...

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds...

This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) tells the tale of Christina, the daughter of Dutch toymaker Niklaas. Much to...

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