Sunny Side Up

It was 1924 while filming as an eighteen year old extra in her first movie Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor) continued working in a shoe store just in case a motion picture career didn't work out. Within a few years she won the first Academy Award Best Actress. In 1929 Janet introduced "Sunny Side Up" from the film of the same name. "(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up" (Ray Henderson - B.G. DeSylva - Lew Brown) was sung during a NYC July 4th block party though it was shot in Pebble Beach, California.

The popular version of "Sunny Side Up" was performed that same year by bandleader and pianist Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra probably with singer Paul Gibbons. The single peaked at number nine. The hotel was an early home to the Academy Award presentations and is now called The Millennium Biltmore.