Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor won the first ever Oscars as Best Actor and Best actress, respectively. We have used an AI tool to see what the two movie stars would look like today ...

Janet Gaynor won best actress for her roles in "Sunrise," "7th Heaven" and "Street Angel" – in 1938, she was again nominated in the category for the first "A Star Is Born." ...

Janet Gaynor Was a Deserving Winner of the First Best Actress Oscar . Anyone who sits down and watches Street Angel will be taken by Gaynor's performance more than anything.She is great in the two ...

Decades after Janet Gaynor won the very first best actress Oscar, she fondly referred to the evening of May 16, 1929, and the first Academy Awards presentation as ”a quiet, warm experience ...

In the first year of the Oscars, winners could be honored for single movies, multiple films, or a body of work. Janet Gaynor won best actress for her roles in "Sunrise," "7th Heaven" and "Street ...

Janet Gaynor, an actress from Philadelphia, won the first Oscar for Best Actress for her roles in three films: "7th Heaven," "Street Angel," and "Sunrise." This would be the only time Gaynor would ...

Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. Sept. 15: Janet Gaynor, the first actress to win an Academy Award, died yesterday ...

The girlish Janet Gaynor won the first Best Actress award, here accepting the statue, ... a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, an achievement only 12 people to date can claim. 6 1934.

RELATED: Oscars: Every Best Actor Oscar Winner Back To 1927. Mikey Madison – 2025. ... 1929 — Janet Gaynor. Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Everett Collection ‘Street Angel’ (1928) ...