Janet Gaynor Finds Her Place

The Young Film Actress Has in a Year Become One of the Favourite Luminaries of the Screen

April 1929 EDWARD STEICHEN
Janet Gaynor Finds Her Place

The Young Film Actress Has in a Year Become One of the Favourite Luminaries of the Screen

April 1929 EDWARD STEICHEN

Even in a field so replete with overnight successes as motion pictures, the rise of Janet Gaynor to stardom is outstanding. The past year has seen a dozen new names put up in electric lights over the temples and cathedrals of the cinema, but Janet Gaynor provides the most serious competition for the established stars. She has in this short time not only gained world-wide publicity, but has definitely given proof of her histrionic abilities. Achieving sudden fame by her meteoric performance as the French gamine in Seventh Heaven, Miss Gaynor immediately followed this with a simple and beautiful interpretation of the German peasant girl in Murnau's Sunrise. She brings to the screen, not only a unique sincerity and charm, but a genuine talent for characterization and honest emotion. In her next film, Christina, she is a wooden-shoed maid of the Isle of Marken, a new venture for her in delineation and nationality