Both films were directed by Frank Borzage, Hollywood's foremost romanticist. To that list add Lucky Star (1929), a film that was itself believed to be lost forever until an immaculate nitrate print showed up in Amsterdam in 1989 and was restored.ħth Heaven and Street Angel established Gaynor and Farrell as one of the all-time-great pairs of screen lovers. Now, forty years since Gaynor's reflection, in a world where film preservation, Turner Classic Movies and other entities have made classic film much more widely accessible, Gaynor-Farrell masterworks like 7th Heaven (1927) and Street Angel (1928) shine again, giving us a glimpse of that lost world in all its ethereality. She and Farrell had long since retired from the silver screen, and their classic romantic pairings of forty years earlier already seemed like something out of a forever-lost world, never to be regained. 'There can never be a Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell love team again,' Janet Gaynor told Look magazine in 1970.
