Movies: Janet Gaynor

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of th...

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as...

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression....

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife....

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Ha...

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men....

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune....

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s....

A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era....

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist....

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work....

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm....

In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love....

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair....

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town...

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Les...

A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl....

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the ...

A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889....

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets....