The Resume

(October 6, 1906-September 14, 1984)
Birth name was Laura Gainor
Won the 1927/28 Oscar for Best Actress ('Seventh Heaven,' 'Street Angel' and 'Sunrise')
Acted in 'A Star is Born,' 'Bernadine,' 'The Young in Heart,' 'Sunny Side Up' and 'Happy Days'

Why she might be annoying:

She won an Oscar for three different films (make up your mind!)
At the first Academy ceremony, she was more excited over meeting Douglas Fairbanks than in winning the Oscar.
She and her frequent costar Charles Farrell were known as 'America's Favorite Lovebirds.'
She was divorced.
She married a guy who only used one name.
During a screening of 'Sunrise' at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles in 1997, the theater's owner Laurence Austin was murdered by a man posing as an armed robber, who was actually hired to kill Austin by his gay lover.

Why she might not be annoying:

She was a redhead.
She started out as an extra.
She made a successful transition from silent to sound films.
Franklin Roosevelt described her as 'cute as a button.'
During a scene in 'A Star is Born' where her character wins an Academy Award, she used her own Oscar.
She was severely injured in a car crash with a drunk driver when she was 75.

Credit: Jon Mullich

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Actors Who Think They Can Sing
• AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Passions [Couples] (Ranked: 63)
• Best Actress Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1928)
• Carol Burnett Impersonations
• Couples in 'A Star Is Born' (Ranked: 1937)
• Film Pioneers [Silent Era]
• Footprints in Mann's Theater - Female
• Golden Girls References
• I Attended the Los Angeles Premiere of ‘Gone With the Wind’ [December 28, 1939]
• I Attended the Premiere of 'Marie Antoinette' [1938]
• I Boarded the Love Boat [E-K]
• I Come from Queens
• I Died in 1984 (Ranked: 78)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[F-I]
• I Portrayed 1 of the 100 Greatest Female Movie Characters of All Time [Movieline - April 1997] (Ranked: 10)
• I was Involved in a Car Accident in 1982
• I'm Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery [Calif]
• Jon Mullich's Profiles
• Lesbians
• Little People [5'3 and Shorter] - Female A-K
• Person to Person - Guests [A-K]
• Profiles 4501-4750 (Ranked: 4603)
• Redheads - Female [A-L]
• Top Box Office Actress of the Year (Ranked: 1931)
• Top Box Office Actress of the Year (Ranked: 1934)
• Top Box Office Stars of 1932 (Ranked: 2)
• Top Box Office Stars of 1933 (Ranked: 3)
• Top Box Office Stars of 1934 (Ranked: 3)
• Top Ten Box Office Stars of the 1930s (Ranked: 9)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 22 Votes: 4.55% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 74 Votes: 43.24% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 30 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 227 Votes: 63.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 66 Votes: 60.61% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 156 Votes: 48.08% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 54 Votes: 37.04% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 135 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 35 Votes: 22.86% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 48 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 118 Votes: 35.59% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 194 Votes: 45.88% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 125 Votes: 48.00% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 254 Votes: 42.91% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 346 Votes: 42.20% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 531 Votes: 44.26% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 706 Votes: 48.87% Annoying