{"id":3685,"date":"2025-09-25T22:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:28:50","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-sunset-a-song-of-two-humans-and-janet-gaynor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-sunset-a-song-of-two-humans-and-janet-gaynor\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Sunset: A Song of Two Humans and Janet Gaynor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-1.jpg\" alt=\" Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien and in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.\" class=\"wp-image-3687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.webp\" alt=\"George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.\" class=\"wp-image-3688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This film is beautiful, once you get past the premise that it&#8217;s okay to cheat on your wife and plan to kill her as long as you feel really bad about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/janet-gaynor.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Janet Gaynor's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Janet Gaynor.\" class=\"wp-image-3689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/janet-gaynor.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/janet-gaynor-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/janet-gaynor-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her part as The Wife. After this she was the lead in the first version of A Star is Born, and apparently turned down the role of Scarlett O&#8217;Hara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere in storage I have a promo postcard of the original version of this poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans mimicking the poster for Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.\" class=\"wp-image-3686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any movie with a drunk piglet at a dance can&#8217;t be all bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}