His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

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

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

The family was relatively poor, but Gaynor recalls the house being filled with laughter and happiness, and the dinner table being open to neighbourhood friends.

Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz / pop band, in the 1960s.

Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor, was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time.

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

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.

Janet Gaynor ( October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984 ) was an American actress and painter.

Standing 5 ' 0 " tall, Gaynor was one of Hollywood's leading ladies within a year.

Gaynor was not only the first but also, at 22 years old, the youngest actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress up until 1986.

Gaynor was one of only a handful of leading ladies who made a successful transition to sound films.

For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Sunny Side Up ( 1929 ), Delicious ( 1931 ), Merely Mary Ann ( also 1931 ), and Adorable ( 1933 ), as well as State Fair ( 1933 ) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife ( 1935 ), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man.

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.

Gaynor was close friends with actress Mary Martin, with whom she frequently travelled.

Gaynor was in serious condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney.

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.

The following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray.

* 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 ...

Rogers was accorded top billing on some posters but Gaynor was billed above Rogers in the film itself.

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

Together with new allies Goffanon ( a blacksmith and diminutive giant ) and Goffanon's cousin and true giant Illbrec battles the Fhoi Myore and their own allies, a returned Prince Gaynor, the wizard Calatin and his clone of Corum, the Brothers of the Pine, the undead Ghoolegh and a host of giant wolves.

After a fruitless search, Kelly returned to Pittsburgh, to his first position as a choreographer with the Charles Gaynor musical revue Hold Your Hats at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in April, 1938.

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.

A Brazilian press report noted that Gaynor and Martin briefly lived with their respective husbands in the state of Goiás in the 1950s and 1960s.

However, since the directing award was for " directing " rather than " best director ", it honored the director in association with only a single film — thus Janet Gaynor has two Frank Borzage films listed after her Best Actress nomination, but only one of them earned Borzage a directing nomination.

He represents many stars of daytime TV, especially from Days of Our Lives, and has worked with Grammy-winning singer Gloria Gaynor, Chad Michael Murray, Chris Tucker, Tommy Davidson, Susan Ward, and Nadia Bjorlin.

* Adam Gaynor, guitarist with Matchbox Twenty, grew up in Edgemont

In 1976 Jody Pollard ( guitar, ex-Elmer Fudd ) replaced Pat O ' Farrell in a line-up with Shiels ( vocals / mandolin ), Bridgeman ( drums ), John Brady ( bass ) and Dave Gaynor ( drums ), recording the Phil Lynott-produced double A-sided single " Coming Home Again " / " Fight Your Heart Out " and unreleased track " Skid Row Flashback ".

The band moved to Townhouse Studios for recording sessions with producer Peter Walsh, who introduced them to a London-born drummer called Mel Gaynor, a 22-year old session musician with plenty of experience ( including a stint drumming for The Nolans ).

Reunited with Mel Gaynor, Simple Minds hired Malcolm Foster ( ex-Pretenders ) as the new bass player and expanded the live band again by recruiting three additional touring members – backing singer Annie McCaig, percussionist Andy Duncan and violinist Lisa Germano ).

The band then reunited with Mel Gaynor for studio session in spring 1997.

With Goudie opting to remain studio bound ( and Mark Kerr leaving the band lineup again ), Simple Minds once again mended their relationship with Mel Gaynor, recruiting him as tour drummer.

Also performed a brief set at the 40th anniversary tribute to Glasgow Celtic's famous Lisbon Lions European Cup winning team ( with Jim McDermott deputising on drums for an absent Mel Gaynor ).

In early October 2010, a new line-up of Simple Minds ( Burchill, Kerr, Gaynor, Gillespie with new bassist Ged Grimes ) completed four weeks at the Sphere Recording Studios in London during which four songs were recorded and mixed for an extensive new compilation album to be called " Greatest Hits +" and for the forthcoming new Simple Minds studio album.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gaynor and her husband have been residents of Green Brook, New Jersey.

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 ).