Category Archives: Janet Gaynor

Photoplay May-Aug. 1934

  • Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor.

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Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1932

  • Cover girls and boy (l.-r., in order of appearance): Gary Cooper and Tallulah Bankhead, Irene Dunne, Joan Crawford, Janet Gaynor.
  • Cooper and Bankhead were starring in 1932’s Devil and the Deep. Also appearing in the film were Cary Grant and Charles Laughton–not too shabby!

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Photoplay Mar.-Apr. 1931 Double Exposure

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  • Kid sister Joan graced Photoplay’s September cover; here in March it’s Constance Bennett’s turn.
  • Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor maintain the double exposure theme on April’s cover.
  • Farrell and Gaynor were the hottest team in movies and appeared together in ten films, including 7th Heaven.
  • Farrell left show business in 1934, but returned to it in the 1950s as My Little Margie’s Vern Albright.

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Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1929

  • Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Nancy Carroll, Anita Page, Janet Gaynor, Norma Talmadge.
  • The supremely talented and prolific illustrator Earl Christy (1883-1961) did all the covers here.

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Photoplay Dec. 1928- Janet Gaynor

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  • Photoplay’s December cover girl Janet Gaynor was on a roll when it came to roles. In 1929 she’d nab the first Best Actress Oscar for three of them: 7th Heaven and Sunrise–both 1927–and 1928’s Street Angel.

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