Janet Gaynor Became A Star Despite Herself

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1939, Page 12

Janet Gaynor Became A Star Despite Herself

Strangely enough, Janet Gaynor, appearing with Robert Montgomery in “Three Loves Has Nancy” never dreamed that she could ever become a motion picture star. The combined efforts of-her family were necessary to get her to make her first call at a studio casting office, and the rebuffs she received in her first weeks so thoroughly disheartened her that she renounced motion picture work “forever” and instead took a stenographic course in a Hollywood business college. / “We were living in San Francisco when I finished high school,” Miss Gaynor related in an interview on the set of her latest picture. “I had done a little entertaining at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago during the war and had appeared in one or two amateur shows. But it never occurred to me to think of acting as a career until my stepfather began talking about it.”