Want to know the best Betty Hutton movies?  How about the worst Betty Hutton movies?  Curious about Betty Hutton box office grosses or which Betty Hutton movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Betty Hutton movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Betty Hutton (1921-2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer and singer.   From 1942 to 1952 she was one of the most popular actresses working.  She appeared in 12 $100 million (adjusted gross) box office hits during that time frame.  Quigley Publications listed her as a Top Box Office Star four times. Betty Hutton’s IMDb page shows 32 acting credits from 1938-1977 This page will rank 19 Betty Hutton movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her television appearances were not included in the rankings.  This page comes from a request by TCM’s Top Billed.

Drivel Part:  Gotta admit..we were not too aware of the movie career of Betty Hutton.  Now that we are done with the page…we found two things pretty interesting:  (1) Wow….the battle for her top ranked movie was the closest ever in our movie database…with her TOP THREE movies getting UMR scores of 69.47 (Miracle of Morgan’s Creek) , 69.28 (The Greatest Show On Earth) and 69.23 (Annie Get Your Gun).  (2)  Her average box office adjusted gross of $164.20 is the 9th best in our database.  That puts her in some pretty incredible company. Our Top Ten UMR Average Gross Per Movie:  1st Harrison Ford, 2nd Barbra Streisand, 3rd Orlando Bloom, 4th Julie Andrews, 5th Judy Garland, 6th Will Smith, 7th Eddie Murphy, 8th Clark Gable, 9th Hutton & 10th Tom Cruise.

Betty Hutton Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

• Sort Betty Hutton movies by co-stars of her movies
• Sort Betty Hutton movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Betty Hutton movies by domestic yearly box office rank
• Sort Betty Hutton movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Betty Hutton movie received.
• Sort Betty Hutton movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR)Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
• Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Betty Hutton Table

1. Twelve Betty Hutton movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 63.15% of her movies listed. The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) was her biggest box office hit.
2. An average Betty Hutton movie grossed $164.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  13 of Betty Hutton’s movies are rated as good movies…or 90.32% of her movies.  The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) is her highest rated movie while Let’s Face It (1943) is her lowest rated movie.
4. Seven Betty Hutton movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 36.84% of her movies.
5. Two Betty Hutton movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.52% of her movies.
6. An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00.  16 Betty Hutton movie scored higher that average….or 84.21% of her movies. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) got the the highest UMR Score while Spring Reunion (1957) got the lowest UMR Score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Betty Hutton

1. Elizabeth June Thornburg was born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1921.

2. Origin of “Hutton”.  After moving to New York in the late 1930s, she began working with bandleader Vincent Lopez.  Lopez consulted a numerologist to conceive a solid-sounding surname…so Betty Thornburg became Betty Hutton.

3. Betty Hutton was never nominated for an Oscar® but she did receive a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Actress in 1950’s Annie Get Your Gun.

4. Betty Hutton Quigley Publications Top North American Box Office Star rankings:  23rd in 1944, 12th in 1945, 15th in 1950 and 14th in 1952.

5. Betty Hutton was ranked as the 3rd biggest international star of 1952.…trailing only Bob Hope and Gregory Peck.

6. Because of her energetic style, Bob Hope referred to her as “A vitamin pill with legs”.

7. Betty Hutton was married four times and had three children.

8. Betty Hutton’ cumulative box office totals:  Adjusted domestic box office:  $3.11 billion.  15 Oscar® nominations all her movies in all categories.  3 Oscar® wins all her movies in all categories.

9.  Betty Hutton’s 1942 song “Hit The Road To Dreamland” is heavily featured in 1997’s L.A. Confidential.

10. Check out Betty Hutton‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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