The Pez Dispenser
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~ Chinese Proverb
![[on receiving the first first Best Actress Oscar] Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I’m sure I’d have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks. ~ Janet Gaynor](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxg07A6zV1qanwe4o1_1280.jpg)
[on receiving the first first Best Actress Oscar] Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I’m sure I’d have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks. ~ Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, Street Angel (Fox Film Corporation, 1929), directed by Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor won an extraordinary three Oscars at the first Academy Awards in 1930 for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayals in Street Angel (1929), Sunrise (1927) and 7th Heaven (1927).
Janet Gaynor, c.1934
A Star Is Born (1937)
Janet Gaynor
“Crawford Smear”
1926 Janet Gaynor
Happy Xmas from Janet Gaynor
via Street Angel (1928, dir. Frank Borzage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Janet Gaynor, The Young in Heart (1938)
Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Joyce Compton, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Marceline Day, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor, Sally Long, Edna Marion, Sally O`Neil, Vera Reynolds, Fay Wray
