Janet Gaynor made a career in film at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Janet Gaynor as American actress (1906–1984).
Janet Gaynor was born at Philadelphia in 1906. Her recorded nationality is the United States.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
The record gives her occupations as stage actor, film actor and television actor.
The screen flattens effort: a performance that took months reads as a few unhurried minutes.
Her recorded fields of work are film, television and theatre.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Academy Award for Best Actress (1929).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Janet Gaynor died in 1984 at the age of 78. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Academy Award for Best Actress — 1929
- Worked as stage actor, film actor and television actor
