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

Simple Minds ' first non-Scottish member, Gaynor would go on to become the band's longest-standing drummer ( despite twice leaving and returning in the following decades ).

The closest she came to accepting was in 1938, when producer David O. Selznick persuaded her to do a screen test ( with Janet Gaynor, who would later play the female lead ) for the role of Miss Fortune in the film The Young in Heart.

" Mitzi's back in town " became an annual slogan when Gaynor would come to the city for a number of weeks each year to break in her Las Vegas routines.

For the supporting tour, the band would re-hire Mel Gaynor as drummer and recruit Malcolm Foster ( Pretenders ) as the new bass guitarist.

" 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.

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.

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 ).

Gaynor appeared performing the final few bars of " Poor Papa ", a song-and-dance number from her 1969 TV spectacular, Mitzi's 2nd Special.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.