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- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsGeorge O'BrienFlorence GilbertJanet GaynorFollows 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.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJanet GaynorLeslie FentonJ. Farrell MacDonaldThe 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.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorWilliam RussellGeorge 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.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsRichard WallingJanet GaynorGeorge IrvingAlthough Thomas and Ellen Atkins are good and sincere parents, they must tolerate an irascible grandmother, a lazy uncle who feigns sickness, and a brother who believes himself to be a poet. They also tolerate the concern of little Thomas for all the sick animals in the village. When Atkins, Sr., needs money to meet a note, young Thomas, with the aid of his sweetheart, Mildred Hastings, secures money by threatening to expose an older sister's love affair. He buys 250 pigs, works with them overnight, and sells them for $10 a head; after eloping with Mildred, he returns home to his proud and happy family.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsAlec B. FrancisJohn RocheJanet GaynorThe fondest wish of Peter Grimm, elderly patriarch of a famous tulip growing family, is that his ward Kate will marry his nephew and primary heir, Fredrick. Though she loves another, she agrees to marry Fredrick. When Grimm dies, Fredrick reveals his true colors, and intends to sell the nursery. Grimm's ghost returns and regrets forcing his will on the others and works to change things.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsJanet GaynorGlenn TryonBen BardMarianna Miller, dressing as a boy to seek employment in the city, becomes involved with a gang of ruffians; and when she hits Dexter Wright, a young businessman, with a tomato, he detects her disguise and helps her obtain a secretarial position with his competitor. Misunderstanding his interests in her girl friend, Edna, Marianna and her pal answer an advertisement for two girls wanted--a maid and a cook--and end up as servants in the country house of Dexter's uncle. Marianna learns of a plan to swindle Dexter's uncle, and in the process, she and Dexter fall in love. .
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA 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.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsJanet GaynorMary DuncanCharles MortonFour orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJanet GaynorCharles MortonRudolph SchildkrautChristina lives with her father in a Dutch fishing village. A circus arrives and handsome Jan attracts all feminine interests. He and Christina fall in love, but Mrs. Bosman, the circus owner, is after Jan and will try to separate them.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMarjorie WhiteMolly 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.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellWilliam Collier Sr.When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her mother wishes for her, the tension between the two families raises. While both fathers fight each other in business, their daughter and son get closer.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellKenneth MacKennaA 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.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJanet GaynorWarner BaxterUna MerkelWealthy 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.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBeryl MercerOrphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellEl BrendelA comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellMinna Gombell"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 performances. In 1932, a film adapted from the Craven play was written by Lynn Starling. The film starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and was directed by William K. Howard. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics "Seventh Heaven" (1927), "Street Angel" (1928), and "Lucky Star" (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise" (1927).
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellDudley DiggesWhen Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting too old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long: local millionaire,Frederick Garfield lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves that he is not just a younger edition of his curmudgeon father.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorWill RogersLew AyresAn Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJanet GaynorHenri GaratC. Aubrey SmithJanet 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?
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsJanet GaynorWarner BaxterWalter ConnollyIn Ireland, Major Adair's older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father's debts, even though she really loves Jack Breen.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJanet GaynorLionel BarrymoreRobert YoungDuring 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.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellJames DunnAfter graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.