Want to know the best Ann Sheridan movies? How about the worst Ann Sheridan movies? Curious about Ann Sheridan box office grosses or which Ann Sheridan movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ann Sheridan movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Ann Sheridan (1915-1967) was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 to her death in 1967, first in film and later in television. Her IMDb page shows 97 acting credits from 1934-1967. This page will rank 50 Ann Sheridan movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information. Uncredited roles, bit parts and short were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request from Elliott Bisnow.
Ann Sheridan 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 Ann Sheridan movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Ann Sheridan movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ann Sheridan movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ann Sheridan 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 Oscar® wins each Ann Sheridan movie received.
- Sort Ann Sheridan movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Ann Sheridan Table
- Seventeen Ann Sheridan movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 33.33% of her movies listed. Kings Row (1942) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Ann Sheridan movie grosses $88.82 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 28 of Ann Sheridan movies are rated as good movies…or 54.90% of her movies. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) was her highest rated movie while She Loved A Fireman (1937) was her lowest rated movie.
- Five Ann Sheridan movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 9.80% of her movies.
- Zero Ann Sheridan movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of her movies.
- An “a good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 23 Ann Sheridan movies scored higher than that….or 45.09% of her movies. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) got the the highest UMR Movie Score while She Loved A Fireman (1937) got the lowest UMR Movie Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ann Sheridan
1. Clara Lou “Ann” Sheridan was born in Denton, Texas in 1915
2. In 1934, Ann Sheridan won a beauty contest. That notoriety from that win got her into the movies. From 1934 to 1936 she appeared 23 movies for Paramount and Universal…..most were uncredited or bit roles.
3. While at Paramount Ann Sheridan was used as a body double (hands, legs, shoulders).
4. Stardom came her way when Warner Brothers decided to promote her as the “Oomph” girl. This was voted by a committee of 25 men as the female actor with the most “oomph” in America.
5. Ann Sheridan later became the inspiration for the brand of woman’s house-slippers called “Oomphies”
6. Ann Sheridan was married three times in her life but did not have any children.
7. Ann Sheridan got her part in one of her most successful movies, 1942’s Kings Row, after Ginger Rogers had turned down the part.
8. After making 1937’s San Quentin, in which they played brother and sister, Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart became friends and began referring to each other as “Sister Annie” and “Brother Bogie”.
9. In 1938 Ann Sheridan starred in Angels With Dirty Faces and in 1939 she starred in Angels Wash Their Faces. Despite the closeness of titles these two movies have nothing to do with each other than Sheridan starred in both. This caused mass confusion here in Cogersonville.
10. Check out Ann Sheridan’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
I have seen 16 Ann Sheridan movies.
My favourites are:
I Was a Male War Bride
Angels With Dirty Faces
Woman on the Run
The Unfaithful
They Drive By Night
Others I have seen include:
King’s Row
City For Conquest
George Washington Slept Here
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Castle on the Hudson
Nora Prentice
The Opposite Sex
They Made Me a Criminal
Dodge City
San Quention
Letter of Introduction
Hey Flora
1. I fixed your comment per your request.
2. 16 of the 51 is just a tick under a third of her movies…..I am at half of your total…as I have seen 8 of her movies.
3. Of your Top 5…I have seen 3 of the movies….with Angels and War Bride being in my Top 3 Ann Sheridan movies.
4. I just recently saw San Quentin…..that was a Pat O’Brien movie…as Bogart and Sheridan had supporting roles.
Good feedback as always.
I have seen a few episodes of Ann’s comedy series Pistols and Petticoats where she passed away while the season was on (it lasted I think half a season). Ann was never on the Oracle of Bacon top 1000 of all time. These are the only actors on the 2016 list who appeared with her.
681 ANTHONY QUINN City for Conquest (1940)
855 LESLIE NIELSEN The Opposite Sex (1956)
937 ROBERT EASTON Take Me to Town (1953)
All have passed on and Nielsen and Easton have fallen off the list since.
People on the first list in 2000 who have since fallen off who appeared with Ann in a film. Rank is for 2000.
14 JOHN CARRADINE The Crusades (1935)
27 MARC LAWRENCE San Quentin (1937)
41 BURGESS MEREDITH Castle on the Hudson (1940)
54 STUART WHITMAN Appointment in Honduras (1953)
100 IAN WOLFE Silver River (1948)
132 GLENN FORD Appointment in Honduras (1953)
146 MIKE MAZURKI Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
146 MIKE MAZURKI Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
187 RAY MILLAND Bolero (1934)
187 RAY MILLAND One Hour Late (1934)
187 RAY MILLAND The Glass Key (1935)
222 BESS FLOWERS Good Sam (1948)
222 BESS FLOWERS It All Came True (1940)
222 BESS FLOWERS Nora Prentiss (1947)
222 BESS FLOWERS One More Tomorrow (1946)
222 BESS FLOWERS The Opposite Sex (1956)
222 BESS FLOWERS They Drive by Night (1940)
234 AKIM TAMIROFF Rumba (1935)
248 ARTHUR KENNEDY City for Conquest (1940)
296 KENNETH TOBEY I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
380 STERLING HAYDEN Take Me to Town (1953)
404 JACK ELAM Appointment in Honduras (1953)
410 GEORGE RAFT Bolero (1934)
410 GEORGE RAFT Limehouse Blues (1934)
410 GEORGE RAFT Rumba (1935)
410 GEORGE RAFT The Glass Key (1935)
410 GEORGE RAFT They Drive by Night (1940)
506 DOUGLAS FOWLEY Dodge City (1939)
532 JIM BACKUS The Opposite Sex (1956)
538 ARTHUR HILL I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
571 CHARLES LANE City for Conquest (1940)
611 DON ‘RED’ BARRY Letter of Introduction (1938)
619 PETER VAN EYCK Edge of Darkness (1943)
634 JOAN COLLINS The Opposite Sex (1956)
671 EDUARDO CIANELLI The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
731 JOHN HOYT The Unfaithful (1947)
740 GEORGE CHANDLER Silver River (1948)
744 DEAN JAGGER Car 99 (1935)
744 DEAN JAGGER College Rhythm (1934)
744 DEAN JAGGER Home on the Range (1935)
744 DEAN JAGGER You Belong to Me (1934)
746 HERB VIGRAN It All Came True (1940)
746 HERB VIGRAN Just Across the Street (1952)
783 JAMES FLAVIN Castle on the Hudson (1940)
783 JAMES FLAVIN It All Came True (1940)
783 JAMES FLAVIN Juke Girl (1942)
783 JAMES FLAVIN Nora Prentiss (1947)
783 JAMES FLAVIN San Quentin (1937)
783 JAMES FLAVIN Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
789 ANITA EKBERG Take Me to Town (1953)
811 ROBERT NICHOLS I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
824 FRANK WILCOX City for Conquest (1940)
824 FRANK WILCOX Edge of Darkness (1943)
824 FRANK WILCOX Juke Girl (1942)
824 FRANK WILCOX Navy Blues (1941)
824 FRANK WILCOX They Drive by Night (1940)
824 FRANK WILCOX Wings for the Eagle (1942)
832 DON BRODIE Letter of Introduction (1938)
832 DON BRODIE Rumba (1935)
874 DEAN JONES The Opposite Sex (1956)
894 PHILIP VAN ZANDT Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
903 JACK KRUSCHEN Just Across the Street (1952)
917 ROBERT J. WILKE San Quentin (1937)
918 BETTE DAVIS Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
918 BETTE DAVIS The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
959 LEON AMES George Washington Slept Here (1942)
962 OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Dodge City (1939)
962 OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
963 FRANK FERGUSON Wings for the Eagle (1942)
965 MARY WICKES The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
980 VICTOR MATURE Stella (1950)
982 BILLY BENEDICT One More Tomorrow (1946)
982 BILLY BENEDICT Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
989 BRUCE CABOT Dodge City (1939)
Ann worked with 20 Oscar winners although she appeared with 3 of them at least 5 times.
ANTHONY QUINN City for Conquest (1940)
BETTE DAVIS Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
BETTE DAVIS The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
BING CROSBY Mississippi (1935)
BING CROSBY Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
CHARLES COBURN George Washington Slept Here (1942)
CHARLES COBURN Kings Row (1942)
DEAN JAGGER Behold My Wife (1934)
DEAN JAGGER Car 99 (1935)
DEAN JAGGER College Rhythm (1934)
DEAN JAGGER Home on the Range (1935)
DEAN JAGGER You Belong to Me (1934)
DONALD CRISP CITY FOR CONQUEST (1940)
DONALD CRISP THE GREAT O’MALLEY (1937)
GARY COOPER Good Sam (1948)
GARY COOPER Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
GIG YOUNG Navy Blues (1941)
GIG YOUNG The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
HATTIE MCDANIEL GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE (1942)
HATTIE MCDANIEL THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS (1943)
HUMPHREY BOGART Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
HUMPHREY BOGART Black Legion (1937)
HUMPHREY BOGART It All Came True (1940)
HUMPHREY BOGART San Quentin (1937)
HUMPHREY BOGART Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
HUMPHREY BOGART The Great O’Malley (1937)
HUMPHREY BOGART They Drive by Night (1940)
JAMES CAGNEY Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
JAMES CAGNEY City for Conquest (1940)
JAMES CAGNEY Torrid Zone (1940)
JANE WYMAN College Rhythm (1934)
JANE WYMAN Honeymoon for Three (1941)
JANE WYMAN One More Tomorrow (1946)
JANE WYMAN Rumba (1935)
JANE WYMAN The Doughgirls (1944)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT THE CRUSADES (1935)
LORETTA YOUNG The Crusades (1935)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Dodge City (1939)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
RAY MILLAND Bolero (1934)
RAY MILLAND One Hour Late (1934)
RAY MILLAND The Glass Key (1935)
THOMAS MITCHELL SILVER RIVER (1948)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Murder at the Vanities (1934)
WALTER BRENNAN Come Next Spring (1956)
WALTER HUSTON Edge of Darkness (1943)
Hey Dan….I think it is cool she was an active actress till the end….I imagine it was shocking news back then when she passed. Gotta admit….I had never heard of Pistols and Petticoats before doing this page. Good lists as always. Only 3 left on the 2016 page. Hopefully Quinn can stay on the list for at least a few more years. Bess Flowers is listed many times…..her name always seems to pop out on your lists. 20 is on the below average side…especially for a career that lasted so long and had so many movies. I had noticed she and Bogart had appeared in many movies over the years. As always….I appreciate you taking the time to share this information.
Thank you for doing this ann sheridan page…..she was so versatile and so pretty….and very sultry but in a down-to-earth way…..she is marvelous in so many films…..she pops off the screen stealing scene after scene….Kings Row, Nora Prentiss, The Unfaithful, I Was a Male.War Bride, Take Me to Town, and even the maligned One More Tomorrow she is in incredible in….she even walks off with the mediocre The Opposite Sex though it is obvious her role was edited down and the film loses all OOMPH when she is not in the scene..nothing against June Allyson or Joan Collins or Joan Blondell (whose type Sheridan more or less replaced at Warner Brothers from 1937 onwards) & dolores gray who were all effervescent & magical in other better scripted films…..anyway I look forward to a Dennis Morgan page Sheridan’s male counterpart in Warner Brothers Golden age hierarchy of stars….
Hey Elliott….glad you found your requested movie page. Thanks for the breakdown on your favorite Sheridan movies. I enjoyed her in Kings Row and I Was A Male War Bride. It is a shame she and Cary Grant (one of my favorites) only made one movie. The attached trailed for One More Tomorrow looks interesting. Interesting about the Warner Brothers girls…and how they replaced each other over the years. I have your Dennis Morgan request rattling around in my head…..so it will get done at some point. Thanks for the kind words and the visit.
One of the new additions to our pages will be to add in “movie” pages to the UMR subject’s Top 10…..in this case….we could not find a trailer for Good Sam….so we went with Ann Sheridan’s 11th ranked movie One More Tomorrow. Check out the Dodge City video…it is INSANE!
Ann Sheridan made acting look easy. She was warm, capable, and unpretentious, a down-to-earth heroine with a deep voice and a healthy, unthreatening sexuality.
My 4 Star Ann Sheridan Performances
1937 Black Legion
1937 The Great O’Malley
1937 San Quentin
1938 Angels With Dirty Faces
1939 They Made Me A Criminal
1940 Castle on the Hudson
1940 They Drive By Night
1940 City For Conquest
1942 The Man Who Came To Dinner
1942 Kings Row
1942 George Washington Slept Here
1943 Edge of Darkness
1944 The Doughgirls
1947 Nora Prentiss
1947 The Unfaithful
1948 Good Sam
1949 I Was A Male War Bride
1950 Woman On The Run
1956 Come Next Spring
These 4 star ratings are from the book, Rating The Movie Stars by Joel Hirschhorn
Always good to see Joel’s movie thoughts living on….at least in my opinion.