Trivia

Until 1986, she was the youngest leading actress to be awarded an Oscar.

She was the first actress to win the Academy Award as best actress. In the early years, actors could receive one Oscar for several films. Gaynor won for L'aurore (1927), L'Heure suprême ! (1927) and L'ange de la rue (1928).

In September 1982, Ms. Gaynor, who was 75, was seriously injured in a San Francisco taxi cab accident which also injured her husband, executive producer Paul Gregory, and actress Mary Martin. The accident proved fatal for Martin's agent, Ben Washer. Gaynor suffered 11 broken ribs, a ruptured bladder, a broken collar bone, a bleeding kidney, and multiple pelvic fractures. She was to endure a number of operations in the next year and grew weaker until her death in 1984.

Gave birth to her only child at age 33, a son Robin Gaynor Adrian on July 6, 1940. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Adrian.

As of 2013 Gaynor is the third-youngest actress to have won the Best Actress Academy Award, winning the Oscar at the age of 22, behind only Jennifer Lawrence (also 22) and Marlee Matlin (21).

Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Autant en emporte le vent (1939).

Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: L'Heure suprême ! (1927), La foire aux illusions (1933) and Une étoile est née (1937), as well as L'aurore (1927),which won for Best Unique and Artistic Production at the first Academy Awards.

Was the 1st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for her performances in L'Heure suprême ! (1927), L'ange de la rue (1928) and L'aurore (1927) at The 1st Academy Awards on May 16, 1929.

Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA, Section B, east side of lake.

Wampas Baby Star of 1926.

Her first ~Oscar was for not speaking with the film being a silent.

Her marriage with Adrian was a lavender marriage.

In 1927/28 at the age of 22 she became the youngest Best Actress Oscar winner .

She and Charles Farrell were in twelve films together: L'Heure suprême ! (1927), L'ange de la rue (1928), L'isolé (1929), Happy Days (1929), La vie en rose (1929), High Society Blues (1930), Hors du gouffre (1931), Merely Mary Ann (1931), Délicieuse (1931), The First Year (1932), Tess of the Storm Country (1932), and Premier amour (1934).

She has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Ben-Hur (1925), L'Heure suprême ! (1927), L'aurore (1927) and La foire aux illusions (1933).

Mentioned in the song "You Oughta Be in Pictures" (1934).

She and Lew Ayres co-starred three times, in the films La foire aux illusions (1933), and Entrée de service (1934), and in a segment of the television series, Doc's Dismissal/A Frugal Pair/The Girl Next Door (1981).