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Janet Gaynor Ranked

by allisonalmodovar • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago
My ranking of Janet Gaynor's films.


Tier One: 1
Tier Two: 2-6
Tier Three: 7-16
Tier Four: 17

Uncredited:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) 8/10 (Really good)
The Plastic Age (1925) 7/10 (Good)
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  • Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in A Star Is Born (1937)

    1. A Star Is Born

    19371h 51mApproved77Metascore
    7.3 (11K)
    Young Esther Victoria Blodgett comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom and achieves them only with the help of alcoholic leading man Norman Maine, whose best days are behind him.
    DirectorsWilliam A. WellmanJack ConwayVictor FlemingStarsJanet GaynorFredric MarchAdolphe Menjou
  • Henri Garat and Janet Gaynor in Adorable (1933)

    2. Adorable

    19331h 28mApproved
    5.5 (172)
    Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. But will this ordinary man love her back once he finds out she's a princess?
    DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJanet GaynorHenri GaratC. Aubrey Smith
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Tess of the Storm Country (1932)

    3. Tess of the Storm Country

    19321h 20mApproved
    6.7 (54)
    When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting too old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long: local millionaire,Frederick Garfield lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves that he is not just a younger edition of his curmudgeon father.
    DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellDudley Digges
  • Lew Ayres and Janet Gaynor in Servants' Entrance (1934)

    4. Servants' Entrance

    19341h 28mPassed
    7.1 (66)
    The daughter of a rich man going through financial difficulties takes a job as a maid and falls in love with the chauffeur.
    DirectorFrank LloydStarsJanet GaynorLew AyresNed Sparks
  • Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers, Janet Gaynor, and Will Rogers in State Fair (1933)

    5. State Fair

    19331h 39mApproved
    6.7 (1.2K)
    An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
    DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorWill RogersLew Ayres
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Lucky Star (1929)

    6. Lucky Star

    19291h 40m
    7.6 (1.6K)
    Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
    DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellGuinn 'Big Boy' Williams
  • Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, and George O'Brien in Sunrise (1927)

    7. Sunrise

    19271h 34mPassed95Metascore
    8.1 (55K)
    A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
    DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret Livingston
  • Janet Gaynor in Street Angel (1928)

    8. Street Angel

    19281h 42mNot Rated
    7.3 (2.7K)
    A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
    DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie Kingston
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Delicious (1931)

    9. Delicious

    19311h 46m
    5.7 (260)
    A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
    DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellEl Brendel
  • Robert Taylor and Janet Gaynor in Small Town Girl (1936)

    10. Small Town Girl

    19361h 46mApproved
    6.5 (994)
    Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk, then proceeds to take her out for a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when he decides--while drunk--that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The next morning, Bob, once he sobers up, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for six months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
    DirectorsWilliam A. WellmanRobert Z. LeonardStarsJanet GaynorRobert TaylorBinnie Barnes
  • Don Ameche, Constance Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Simone Simon, and Loretta Young in Ladies in Love (1936)

    11. Ladies in Love

    19361h 37mApproved
    6.2 (511)
    Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another drinks the poison by mistake and lands a physician for herself. The third marries a businessman. The first girl gets a shop of her own.
    DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsJanet GaynorLoretta YoungConstance Bennett
  • 7th Heaven (1927)

    12. 7th Heaven

    19271h 50m
    7.5 (4.4K)
    A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
    DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen Bard
  • Billie Burke, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Janet Gaynor, and Roland Young in The Young in Heart (1938)

    13. The Young in Heart

    19381h 30mApproved
    7.3 (1.7K)
    Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
    DirectorsRichard WallaceLewis MilestoneGilbert PrattStarsJanet GaynorDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Roland Young
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor in Sunny Side Up (1929)

    14. Sunny Side Up

    19292h 1mPassed
    6.5 (480)
    Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
    DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie White
  • Leslie Fenton and Janet Gaynor in The Shamrock Handicap (1926)

    15. The Shamrock Handicap

    19261h 6mPassed
    6.2 (226)
    The story of Sir Miles O'Hara and his daughter, who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on time.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsJanet GaynorLeslie FentonJ. Farrell MacDonald
  • Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, and George O'Brien in The Blue Eagle (1926)

    16. The Blue Eagle

    192658mPassed
    5.6 (229)
    George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them, making them settle their differences through a boxing fight.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorWilliam Russell
  • Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)

    17. Three Loves Has Nancy

    19381h 10mNot Rated
    6.4 (555)
    A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
    DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJanet GaynorRobert MontgomeryFranchot Tone

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