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1. The Love Boat (1977–1987)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, Pacific Princess.
Stars: Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Fred Grandy
Votes: 13,640
2. Sunrise (1927)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 53,861 | Gross: $0.54M
3. A Star Is Born (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson
Votes: 10,898 | Gross: $4.36M
4. Today (1952– )
TV-G | 240 min | News, Talk-Show
A daily live broadcast provides current domestic and international news, weather reports, and interviews with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, business, media, entertainment, and sports.
Stars: Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Jack Lescoulie, Frank Blair
Votes: 2,461
5. Good Morning America (1975– )
TV-G | 120 min | News, Talk-Show
They present the news and information source of the day's topics and journalism.
Stars: Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos
Votes: 2,027
6. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson
Votes: 7,978 | Gross: $12.45M
7. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,166 | Gross: $3.92M
8. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama
An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Don Herbert, Nancy Reagan, Lee Marvin
Votes: 432
9. State Fair (1933)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Eilers
Votes: 1,070
10. Street Angel (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta
Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $3.71M
11. The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Drama
Follows Tom O'Day, who is loved by two women: Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. He has no idea of Anna's love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, Janet Gaynor, Anders Randolf
Votes: 308
12. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 154
13. Lucky Star (1929)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix
Votes: 1,520
14. 4 Devils (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, Barry Norton
15. The Young in Heart (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
Directors: Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,618
16. The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville
Votes: 484
17. Small Town Girl (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine
Votes: 970
18. Hollywood (1980)
676 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The history of the American film industry in Hollywood during the Silent era.
Stars: James Mason, Colleen Moore, Byron Haskin, Viola Dana
Votes: 855
19. Sunny Side Up (1929)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Musical
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 ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, El Brendel
Votes: 458
20. Daddy Long Legs (1931)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge
Votes: 167
21. This Is Your Life (1970–1973)
30 min | Biography, Reality-TV
Stars: Ralph Edwards, Nanette Fabray, Bette Davis, Peter Graves
Votes: 197
22. Bernardine (1957)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
High school students enter a fictional woman's name (Bernardine Mudd) in a contest. The contestant wins and hilarity ensues.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Pat Boone, Terry Moore, Janet Gaynor, Dean Jagger
Votes: 272
23. Ladies in Love (1936)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Three working girls in Budapest pool their resources to get a better apartment and impress their dates. One dates a nobleman and, learning of her rejection by him, considers poison. Another... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Loretta Young, Constance Bennett, Simone Simon
Votes: 493
24. Servants' Entrance (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The daughter of a rich man going through financial difficulties takes a job as a maid and falls in love with the chauffeur.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly
Votes: 58
25. Person to Person (1953–1961)
30 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Interviews with figures from public life.
Stars: Edward R. Murrow, Charles Collingwood, Jayne Meadows, Jerry Lewis
Votes: 223
26. Change of Heart (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
After graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers
Votes: 355
27. The 25th Annual Academy Awards (1953 TV Special)
113 min
The 25th Academy Awards and the first time the ceremony is broadcast on television. Held on March 19th, 1953 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, it is hosted by Bob Hope and honors the films of 1952.
Directors: Bill Bennington, John Rich | Stars: Bob Hope, Anne Baxter, Edgar Bergen, Jacques Bergerac
Votes: 215
28. The Plastic Age (1925)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Donald Keith, Clara Bow, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 376
29. The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978 TV Special)
News
Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as " Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of ... See full summary »
Director: Marty Pasetta | Stars: Bob Hope, Jack Albertson, Irwin Allen, Edward Anhalt
Votes: 354
30. Happy Days (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Margie, a singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York although she's in love with the owner's grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 179
31. 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Theda Bara, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Glenn Tryon
Votes: 606
32. The Blue Eagle (1926)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama
George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them, making them settle their differences through a boxing fight.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell, Margaret Livingston
Votes: 213
33. With Love and Hisses (1927)
Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin
Votes: 703
34. Over Easy (1977–1982)
30 min | Talk-Show
A talk show with news, interviews, and entertainment aimed at the older viewer.
Stars: Hugh Downs, Frank Blair, Peter Ustinov, Eartha Kitt
Votes: 17
35. Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 515
36. The Irv Kupcinet Show (1953–1984)
Talk-Show
First talk show that featured interviews with celebrities from the worlds of politics, media and sports. Ran from 1953 to 1980, and hosted by newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet, who became a pioneer in the television talk show genre.
Stars: Irv Kupcinet, Patty Duke, Bob Hope, Joan Crawford
Votes: 52
37. The Man Who Came Back (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
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.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Kenneth MacKenna, William Holden
Votes: 116
38. Carolina (1934)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young, Henrietta Crosman
Votes: 92
39. One More Spring (1935)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
One More Spring is a 1935 film about three people (Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, and Walter Woolf King) living together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on... See full summary »
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell
Votes: 131
40. The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971 TV Special)
News
Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Dunlap | Stars: Bob Hope, Jane Alexander, Robert Altman, Burt Bacharach
Votes: 95
41. Medallion Theatre (1953–1954)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Jackie Cooper, Claude Rains, Eddie Albert, Richard Kiley
Votes: 36
42. Skinner's Dress Suit (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's asking for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, Ben Hendricks Jr., E.J. Ratcliffe
Votes: 208
43. The Crook Buster (1925)
20 min | Short, Western
William Wyler directs his first silent short.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Jack Mower, Janet Gaynor
Votes: 22
44. A.M. Chicago (1974–1986)
Talk-Show
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Steve Edwards, Ann-Margret, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 14
45. All Wet (1924)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Comedy
Jimmie Jump is a boarding house resident who receives a telegram telling him to pick up an important shipment at the train station at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. No good deed goes unpunished, ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Janet Gaynor, William Gillespie, 'Tonnage' Martin Wolfkeil
Votes: 109
46. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Romance, Drama
The story of Sir Miles O'Hara and his daughter, who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Louis Payne
Votes: 205
47. Adorable (1933)
Approved | 88 min | Musical, Comedy, Romance
Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. But will this ordinary man love her back once he finds out she's a princess?
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Henri Garat, C. Aubrey Smith, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 157
48. The First Year (1932)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
"The First Year" was a 1920 play that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Minna Gombell, Dudley Digges
Votes: 26
49. Lazy Lightning (1926)
50 min | Western
Rance Lighton, a lazy wanderer, is arrested for vagrancy and taken to the Rogers Ranch, where Dickie Rogers, an invalid child who is confined to a wheelchair, takes a liking to the stranger.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Art Acord, Fay Wray, Robert Gordon, Vin Moore
Votes: 44
50. Delicious (1931)
106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Raul Roulien
Votes: 246