Gloria Gaynor and producers Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren won the Best Disco Recording award for the song " I Will Survive ".

Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, he developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ), for which he won the first Academy Award for Directing, Street Angel ( 1928 ) and Lucky Star ( 1929 ).

In Ireland the annual " RTE 60 second short award " was won by 15 year old Laura Gaynor who made her winning cartoon ," Piece of Cake " on her Sony Ericsson C510 camera phone.

He'd just come off back to back successes with Gloria Gaynor and Peaches & Herb and had won a Grammy for Gaynor's huge hit " I Will Survive ".

On April 18, 2010, Gaynor won the 2010 NATAS Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Program / Special for her public television musical documentary " Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle!

** Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress ( b. 1906 )

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 ).

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.

Street Angel was one of three movies for which Janet Gaynor received an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929 ; the others were F. W. Murnau's Sunrise and Borzage's Seventh Heaven.

On July 30, 2008, Gaynor, along with Kenny Ortega, Elizabeth Berkley, Shirley MacLaine and cast members from High School Musical, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and a host of others, participated in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences TV Moves Live, a celebration of 60 years of dance on television.

The recipients included Emil Jannings, the first person to receive an Academy Award, for Best Actor for the films The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command ; Janet Gaynor for Best Actress, for Seventh Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ; Frank Borzage for Best Director, Drama for Seventh Heaven and Lewis Milestone for Best Director, Comedy for Two Arabian Knights ; and the film Wings, the most expensive film of its time, became the Best Picture recipient.

On November 7, 2009, Gaynor was honored with Chapman University's Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award during the 28th Annual American Celebration Gala Night at Chapman University in Orange, California.

On March 8, 2009, Gaynor was honored with the 2009 Boston Youth Moves Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by Chita Rivera at Swellegance, the Boston Youth Moves annual fundraiser in Boston.

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.

Gloria Gaynor ( born September 7, 1949 ) is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits ; " I Will Survive " ( Hot 100 number 1, 1979 ), " Never Can Say Goodbye " ( Hot 100 number 9, 1974 ), " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )" ( Hot 100 number 42, 1980 ) and " I Am What I Am " ( R & B number 82, 1983 ).

Arthur later acted as a tour manager for Gaynor.

Gaynor also recorded a disco song called " Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away " in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula which featured a number of disco songs.

In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor, in which she rejected disco for mid-tempo R & B and Pop style songs.

In 2001 Gaynor performed " I Will Survive " at the 30th Anniversary Concert for Michael Jackson.

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.

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.

In 1956, the plot of The Lady Eve was recycled for the movie The Birds and the Bees, starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven.

* Gloria Gaynor ( born 1949 ), singer, known for I Will Survive.

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.

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 ).

Mel Gaynor was recruited ( as a full member of the band ) for the remaining dates.

The album's cover showed a trio of Kerr, Burchill and Gaynor and the writing credits for all songs was Kerr / Burchill.

Mel Gaynor left the band in 1992 to pursue session work and other projects, and for the next two years Simple Minds were on hiatus, releasing the compilation album Glittering Prize in 1992 to mark time.

With Gaynor now out of the picture, the remaining instrumentation was covered by session musicians ( although Malcolm Foster was included among the bass players used for recording ).

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

Gaynor was reinstated as a full-time member for the European tour ( which once again featured Mark Taylor on keyboards ).

* 1977-The Best of Gloria Gaynor

* 2000-20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Gloria Gaynor

On February 27, 1980, during a live telecast from Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Gaynor was presented the award for Best Disco Recording.

At least two of her novels were made into films: My Best Girl ( 1927 ), starring Mary Pickford and Manhattan Love Song ( 1934 ), which was released under the title Change of Heart, starring Janet Gaynor.

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.

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.

As early as 1904, John Gaynor, a Wisconsin grower, and A. U. Chaney, a fruit broker from Des Moines, Iowa, organized Wisconsin growers into a cooperative called the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company to receive a uniform price from buyers.

Corum slows Xiombarg's forces by defeating their leader, Prince Gaynor the Damned.

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.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

Gloria Gaynor argued that the music industry supported the destruction of disco because rock music producers were losing money and rock musicians were losing the spotlight.

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.

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.

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

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.

" 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.

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

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.

In the next few years, Gloria Gaynor released the albums Glorious and Park Avenue Sound, but would only enjoy a few moderate hits.

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.