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Janet Gaynor is a star reborn in "A Star is Born," achieving once more the dizzy heights of Hollywood greatness
IT IS somehow the most heartwarming news ' of the screen season, this artistic rebirth of little Janet Gaynor — once a silent movie sensation in "Seventh Heaven," then a firstrank cinema celebrity for almost a decade — whose lustre gradually dimmed until she seemed in danger of becoming a pale and pleasant memory. It was a daring thing for David Selznick to do, to select Janet to play the heroine of his important all-color production, the story of a young girl crashing the hard gates of Hollywood ; but Mr. Selznick is noted for his astuteness, and his latest picture bids fair to be as big a success as his "Little Women" and "David Copperfield." Not the least of the credits for the achievement belongs to Janet Gaynor — who, ironically enough, after years of film fame and fortune, plays with a poignancy possible to no other movie actress the appealing role she herself played, in part, when a wistful big-eyed mite she gallantly stormed those same Hollywood gates, and succeeded beyond her own wildest dreams. Janet is a great star again !
Best performance of the month is Janet Gaynor's in "A Star is Born," as a movie-struck girl who becomes a famous film star. On our Honor Page you see Janet, top, as the heroine after she wins through; with Adolphe Menjou in the role of a big producer; and, right, with Fredric March, who also scores as a waning movie idol whom Janet loves.
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