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...
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...
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 —...
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), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928).
Died Sept. 14, 1984 in Desert Hospital, Calif. 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...
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…. Read More.
The actress was Janet Gaynor, who would be awarded the first Best Actress award from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her performance in Murnau's film Sunrise, still considered the last great silent film before the movies learned to talk.
