A Star Is Born
1937
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Sep 15, 1984 · -eyed star who won the first Academy Award for best actress for her roles in silent films and went on to become a leading performer in talking pictures, died yesterday at Desert Hospital in Palm...
Sep 15, 1984 · Janet Gaynor, whose elegantly demure movie portrayals of forlorn heroines carried her to fame in both the silent and talking film eras — and won her the first Academy Award for best actress —...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- Janet Gaynor, 77, who won the first Academy Award for best actress and ruled as one of Hollywood's leading stars in the 1930s, died of pneumonia yesterday at Desert...
A petite, wholesome screen star, Janet Gaynor hit it big just as silent films were coming to an end and continued as one of the screen's most popular stars of the 1930s. Gaynor got her start in films through her sister, a secretary for Hal Roach.
American film and stage actress who won the first Academy Award for Best Actress. Name variations: (pseudonym) Augusta Louise.
It dominated the first Academy Awards with nominations for best picture, actress, screenplay adaptation, and director of a dramatic picture, winning Oscars in all but the first category. Gaynor was awarded not only for her work in 7th Heaven but also…
J anet Gaynor was the actress whose elegantly demure movie portrayals of forlorn heroines carried her to fame in both the silent and talking-film eras — and won her the first Academy Award for...
