" There was always music in our house ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography, I Will Survive.

Gaynor was not allowed to sing with the all-male group, nor was her younger brother, Arthur, because he was too young.

" All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography.

To appease her mother, who wanted Gaynor to have " something to fall back on ," she went to beauty school and took business courses.

Capitalizing on the success of her first album, Gloria Gaynor quickly released her second album, Experience Gloria Gaynor, later that same year.

After her 1976 album, I've Got You, Gaynor shifted from her hit production team, to work with other productions.

Gaynor would achieve her final success in the ' 80s with the release of her album I Am Gloria Gaynor in 1984.

Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.

In 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer ( also released under the title What a Life ) as a follow up to her successful album I Wish You Love.

On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame.

After almost 30 years of its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of " I Will Survive ", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows.

Said Gaynor of her biggest hit in a 2012 interview " It feels great to have such a song like that because I get kids five and six years old telling me they like the song, and then people seventy-five and eighty.

According to Kerry Gaynor, one of her former research assistants, " many felt Kirlian photography ’ s effects were just a natural occurrence.

Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.

Also in the accident were Janet Gaynor, who died two years later from complications from her injuries, Gaynor's husband Paul Gregory, who survived, and Martin's press agent Ben Washer, who died in the accident.

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 ).

She was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California next to her second husband Adrian, but her stone reads " Janet Gaynor Gregory ," her legal name after her marriage to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory.

Silent star Janet Gaynor and her costume-designer husband Adrian were the first owners of a spacious estate in Northridge, which was later sold to Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.

Noteworthy persons of the town have included Stanford White, architect ; William Jay Gaynor, New York State Supreme Court Justice and Mayor of New York City ; Willie Collier, actor and playwright ; Mick Foley, Professional Wrestler ; Axella Johannesson, musician ; Soledad O ' Brien, television personality ; and John Petrucci, lead guitar player for Dream Theater.

Gaynor proved to have the combination of broad skills plus force of playing which the band wanted.

The kind of film in which Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, and Victor Moore appear is what we have in mind.

Other international stars that have appeared in the show through the years are: Ricky Martin, t. A. T. u., Will Smith ( three times ), Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin James, Sylvia Saint, Diego Maradona, Christina Aguilera, David Copperfield, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Díaz, Lucy Liu, Chris Rock, John Leguizamo, N * SYNC, The Backstreet Boys, Gloria Gaynor, Shakira and The Rock.

Throughout the years the Curb Companies have had major successes with such artists as the Stone Poneys ( featuring Linda Rondstadt ), Eric Burdon and War, Sammy Davis Jr., the Osmond Family ( including Donny & Marie ), Lou Rawls, Exile, the Righteous Brothers, Solomon Burke, Gloria Gaynor, the Hondells, the Arrows ( featuring Davie Allan ), Lyle Lovett, Roy Orbison, the Electric Flag ( featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles ), the Sylvers, and the Four Seasons.

Artists such as Cher, Madonna, Beyoncé, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones, Yoko Ono, LL Cool J, Gloria Gaynor, and George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars have all performed at the Roxy.

His parents Gaynor and the now late John Taylor set up the Richard Taylor Memorial Fund to raise funds to have the Skatepark at the Knap, Barry upgraded and dedicated to his memory.

Other famous names who have performed there include: Edith Piaf, Sylvie Vartan, Johnny Hallyday, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, Kessler Twins, Elton John, Laurel & Hardy, Dalida, Shirley MacLaine, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward, and many others.

He tells her that the key to dealing with Krusty is to always be prepared to cater to his needs -- have a cigar at the ready, never directly look him in the eye, and pretend to know who Mitzi Gaynor is if he mentions her – he always does.

Architect John Painter Gaynor, who later worked with Ralston on the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is thought to have worked on it.

Although the band described it as a serious take on the original, one they'd been playing live for years, original performer Gloria Gaynor considers it her least favorite version of the song due to its use of profanity.

The displaced Forbes and Gaynor, having apparently been told that the band wasn't appearing at the festival, formed a new band of their own to play the same concert.

Although not of the Vatican a Christmas concert where popular musicians performed had been held at the Vatican for thirteen years until ending in 2006. Notable performers at it included José Feliciano, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Gloria Gaynor, and B.

The song has been covered numerous times, most notably in 1974 by disco diva Gloria Gaynor and in 1987 by Hi-NRG / dance-pop group The Communards.

According to William Wellman Jr., Janet Gaynor had originally been cast as Hazel Flagg to follow up on the success of A Star is Born ( 1937 ).

The song has been covered by many other artists, including 2Play ( 2005 ), Bananarama ( 2001 ) on Exotica album, Brian McKnight ( 2007 ), Kenny G featuring McKnight ( 2004 ) from At Last ... The Duets Album, Boston Pops Orchestra composed by John Williams, Columbia Ballroom Orchestra ( 1994 ), Dave Koz featuring R & B artist Montell Jordan taking the vocal lead ( 1999 ) on the album The Dance, David & the High Spirit ( 2003 ), Del ( 2004 ), Delight ( 2001 ), DJ Irene ( 2003 ), Farhad Besharati ( 2006 ), George Michael ( 1998 ), Gloria Gaynor, Harlemm Lee ( 2003 ), Hit Crew ( 2006 ), James Douglas ( 2003 ), Julio Iglesias ( 2006 ), Jordan Knight ( 2006 ), Katelyn Tarver ( 2006 ), Kenny G ( 2004 ), Kymeria ( 2005 ), Paul Mauriat, Richard Clayderman for his 1988 album ' A little night music ', Roger Williams, Roxy Pain ( 2007 ), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1998 ), Sarah Washington, The Sax Brothers ( 2003 ), Simion Luca ( 1998 ), Skip Martin ( 2006 ), Slinkee Minx ( 2004 ) A on " Closer ( Slinkee Minx song ) | Closer " single, The Shadows ( 1987 ) on Simply Shadows, Barry Manilow ( 2008 ) Tereza Kerndlová and 3Oh! 3 Ft: Juliet Simms of Automatic Loveletter & Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, The Supervillains ( 2011 ) and sampled by the Paper Route Gangstaz, Sharam Jey ft. James Douglas-Out Of Your Mind ( Club Mix ).

Gaynor was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Queenie May Proctor and Daniel Fowles.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

In addition to acting, Gaynor was an accomplished visual artist and her oil paintings were featured at the Wally Findlay Galleries show in New York, March 25 to April 7, 1977.

In 1952, Gwynne married socialite Jean Reynard, a granddaughter of New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor.

* October 2, 1942: New York City, New York “ Erwin Goodman, 36-year-old mathematics teacher of William J. Gaynor Junior High School, was shot and killed in the school corridor by a youth ...

Ardolph Loges Kline ( February 21, 1858 – October 13, 1930 ), was a senior officer of the New York National Guard and a Republican politician who became acting Mayor of New York City on September 10, 1913 upon the death of Mayor William Jay Gaynor, serving for the rest of the year.

Statistics showed that gun murders in New York had risen 50 percent from 1910 – 1911 ; indeed, in 1910, mayor William Jay Gaynor was shot and seriously wounded ( he later died from the wound ; see Timeline of New York City crimes and disasters ), and there were public calls for regulation of handguns.

* Ruel Ross Appleton ( 1853 – 1928 ), campaign manager for Mayor Gaynor of New York City

* August 9, 1910 – Reformist Mayor William Jay Gaynor is shot in the throat in Hoboken, New Jersey by former city employee James Gallagher.

On October 14, 2006, the NY Alumni " adopted " Gaynor as an official " New Yorker " at Beverly Hills High School.