Oral history interview with Janet Gaynor, 1958

Biographical Note

Actress

Scope and Contents

Career as Hollywood movie actress: breaking in, working in the silents, beginning of sound; "Sunrise," "Seventh Heaven," "A Star is Born"; impressions of Frederick Murnau, Frank Borzage, Winfield Sheehan. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actresses--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Gaynor, Janet--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses--Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Oral histories (literary works)