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Janet Gaynor

1906 - 1984

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Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she became the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in 7th Heaven, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (both 1927) and Street Angel (1928), the only occasion an actress won one Oscar for multiple film roles. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Janet Gaynor is the 1,026th most popular actor (up from 1,147th in 2019), the 2,004th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,979th in 2019) and the 509th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Janet Gaynor ranks 1,026 out of 13,578. Before her are Benicio del Toro, Jean Arthur, Néstor Carbonell, Lucy Liu, River Phoenix, and Yuri Nikulin. After her are Mumtaz, Carel Struycken, Daniel Olbrychski, Mack Sennett, Scott Wilson, and Gillian Anderson.

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Among people born in 1906, Janet Gaynor ranks 83. Before her are Nelson Goodman, Gusztáv Sebes, Zhou Youguang, Fredric Brown, Brigitte Helm, and Shigemaru Takenokoshi. After her are Jacques Becker, Walter Rauff, Carlo Scarpa, Lillian Asplund, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, and Primo Carnera. Among people deceased in 1984, Janet Gaynor ranks 52. Before her are Ngô Đình Thục, Souvanna Phouma, Enrico Berlinguer, Moshé Feldenkrais, Yılmaz Güney, and Jerzy Popiełuszko. After her are Kim Il, Jackie Coogan, Walter Rauff, Josyf Slipyj, Yigael Yadin, and Hans Speidel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Janet Gaynor ranks 2,004 out of 20,380. Before her are Néstor Carbonell (1967), Jake LaMotta (1922), Chuck Yeager (1923), Lucy Liu (1968), James Heckman (1944), and River Phoenix (1970). After her are Scott Hall (1958), James Patterson (1947), XXXTentacion (1998), Alan Greenspan (1926), Erskine Caldwell (1903), and Clive Cussler (1931).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Janet Gaynor ranks 509. Before her are Cloris Leachman (1926), Michael Dudikoff (1954), Jean Arthur (1900), Néstor Carbonell (1967), Lucy Liu (1968), and River Phoenix (1970). After her are Scott Wilson (1942), Gillian Anderson (1968), Wes Studi (1947), Joe Mantegna (1947), Macaulay Culkin (1980), and Bill Pullman (1953).

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