Trivia of Janet Gaynor

 Trivia of Janet Gaynor (6 October 1906 - 14 September 1984)

*Gaynor got her start in films through her sister, a secretary for movie producer Hal Roach. In 1925-1926, she appeared in a number of shorts (including several Glenn Tryon Westerns) and as an extra in features. Her first break was a supporting role in "The Johnstown Flood" (1926).

*In her early career, Gaynor was romantically involved with friend and frequent co-star Charles Farrell during their work together.She and Charles Farrell were in twelve films together: 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), Lucky Star (1929), Happy Days (1929), Sunny Side Up (1929), High Society Blues (1930), The Man Who Came Back (1931), Merely Mary Ann (1931), Delicious (1931), The First Year (1932), Tess of the Storm Country (1932), and Change of Heart (1934).

*She was the first actress to win the Academy Award as best actress. In the early years, actors could receive one Oscar for several films. Gaynor won for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928).Until 1986, she was the youngest leading actress to be awarded an Oscar in age 20.

*Because her sweet face and pure young image, she often was cited as a successor to Mary Pickford, and was cast in remakes of two Pickford films, Daddy Long Legs (1931) and Tess of the Storm Country (1932).

*She appeared in A Star in Born (1937). Where the movie was The first all-color film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.The film has been remade three times: in 1954 (directed by George Cukor and starring Judy Garland and James Mason), in 1976 (directed by Frank Pierson and starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), and in 2018 (starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper).

*In August 1939, Gaynor married Hollywood costume designer Adrian, with whom she had a son in 1940.Though this relationship has been called a lavender marriage, Gaynor and Adrian remained married until Adrian's death from a stroke on September 13, 1959.

*In September 1982, Ms. Gaynor, who was 75, was seriously injured in a San Francisco taxi cab accident which also injured her husband, executive producer Paul Gregory, and actress Mary Martin. The accident proved fatal for Martin's agent, Ben Washer. Gaynor suffered 11 broken ribs, a ruptured bladder, a broken collar bone, a bleeding kidney, and multiple pelvic fractures. She was to endure a number of operations in the next year and grew weaker until her death in 1984.Gaynor's headstone reads "Janet Gaynor Gregory", her legal name after her marriage to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory.She is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to her second husband, Adrian.