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The red light runner who wrecked the taxi and erased Janet Gaynor's final act
Seventy-five-year-old Janet Gaynor lies in a taxi after a San Francisco red-light crash. How do you fall from that high?
The red light runner who wrecked the taxi and erased Janet Gaynor's final act
In this episode, we trace Janet Gaynor’s rise from Laura Gainor in Germantown to the first-ever Best Actress Oscar and her voluntary withdrawal from stardom, then follow the later decades that led to a single crash at California and Franklin. What does the shape of a life-built, dismantled, and then violently altered-tell us about fame, choice, and fate?
Person: Janet Gaynor
Date: September 5…
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