Janet Gaynor – MRQE

Carolina

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.

Delicious

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

The First Year

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.

Sunnyside Up

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Molly and Bee, sweet young ‘working girls,’ live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly’s idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won’t discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.

Lucky Star

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim’s former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

A Star Is Born

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

The Man Who Came Back

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.

Christina

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This part-talkie (17 minutes of dialogue in its 83-minute running time) tells the tale of Christina, the daughter of Dutch toymaker Niklaas. Much to her dad’s dismay, Christina falls in love with sideshow huckster Jan. Likewise disapproving of the romance is Jan’s jealous employer Mme. Bosman, who frames the young man on an embezzlement charge.

Bernardine

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A teenager pines for (and sings about) his dream girl.

Daddy Long Legs

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.