Description: SquareTrade © AP6.0 This listing is for one Mystery Cuts Authentic Cut Autograph card of JANET GAYNOR, from 2008 Upper Deck Sweet Spot MLB Baseball Trading Cards. The Signature is in Blue Ink, with serial number #1/2 at the front. This card has been Professionally Authenticated & Graded by Beckett as BGS 9, in MINT condition. Autograph Grade is 9. The slab has been updated in November 2024, and Beckett no longer display Auto Grades below 10. Listing Photo #4 is the item before grading. Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937). She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, the incident contributed to her death two years later.Born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her family moved west to San Francisco during her childhood. When she graduated from high school in 1923, Gaynor decided to pursue an acting career. She moved to Los Angeles, where she supported herself working in a shoe store, receiving $18 per week (2009: $230). She managed to land unbilled small parts in several feature films and comedy shorts for two years. Finally, in 1926, at the age of 20, she was cast in the lead role in The Johnstown Flood (1926), the same year she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars (with Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río and others). Her outstanding performance won her the attention of producers, who cast her in a series of films.Within a year, Gaynor was one of Hollywood's leading ladies. Her performances in Seventh Heaven (the first of twelve movies she would make with actor Charles Farrell) and both Sunrise, directed by F. W. Murnau, and Street Angel (in 1927, also with Charles Farrell) earned her the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1928. At the time, the award was awarded for multiple roles: it was given on the basis of the actor's total work over the year, and not just for one particular performance. Gaynor was not only the first, but until 1986 (when Marlee Matlin won her Oscar), she was also the youngest actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. At the time of their respective wins, Gaynor was 22 years old and Matlin was 21 years old. Gaynor was one of only a handful of leading ladies who made a successful transition to sound films. For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Delicious (1931), Merely Mary Ann (also 1931) and Adorable (1933). However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple. She managed to terminate her contract with the studio and achieved acclaim in films produced by David O. Selznick in the mid-1930s. In 1937, she was again nominated for an Academy Award, this time for her role in A Star Is Born. After appearing in The Young in Heart, she left film industry for nearly twenty years, returning one last time in 1957 as Pat Boone's mother in Bernardine. In 1939, she played Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Lux Radio Theater episode of January 1, 1939 - Mayerling. Postage & handling with insurance is $20 within Australia. International shipping with online tracking & insurance starts from AU$38.80. Save on postage with multiple purchases, and Sydney buyers can pay cash & pickup in person around Fairfield/Liverpool area. You can pay by cheque/money order/bank deposit/transfer, or PayPal. Item will be sent out after confirmation of payment. Feel free to check my feedback profile to buy with confidence. Please do not buy if you can't make payment within 7 days or if your feedback profile rating is below 5. Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal! 8088edge Store
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