Janet Gaynor
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A Star Is Born: Directed by William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming. With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson. A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
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- 1937-04-27
- Drama, Romance
- 111
A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career.
- Max Steiner
- April 20, 1937 (Grauman's Chinese Theatre)
Janet Gaynor. Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress as well as an accomplished oil painter [1] [2] . Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to ...
Oct 4, 2018 · A Star Is Born (1937) Janet Gaynor and Fredric March brought this tragedy of squandered potential and volatile self-loathing into the era of glorious Technicolor with the first take under the ...
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Janet Gaynor. Actress: A Star Is Born. Janet Gaynor was born Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francisco, California, where she graduated from high school in 1923.
- Actress, Soundtrack
- October 6, 1906
- 2 min
- September 14, 1984
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Oct 7, 2018 · Norman Maine (played by Fredric March) asks this of Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) as he says good night on the evening of their first meeting in the 1937 movie A Star Is Born.Since then ...
Oct 4, 2018 · Janet Gaynor in the first A Star Is Born. United Artists. But looking beyond specific plot beats, it’s always, at heart, a story about what it takes to be a celebrity in America, as well as what ...
