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.
Good work moving those comments here Bob, I hope Bruce doesn’t mind.
Any recent sightings? Has the chief acknowledged some of the comments from adoring fans of this website? Were the replies automated? Does he have a special program set up thanking people who comment? Has he noticed that I post here sometimes too? Can we talk about Harrison Ford? [No!] 😉
I’ve seen just 7 of Ann Sheridan’s films, my favorites are Dodge City and Angels With Dirty Faces. Not sure if I’ve seen the various sequels – Angels Wash their Faces, Angels Wash Their Hair and Angels Need a Shower.
Kings Row no.1 on the UMR, haven’t seen it.
Another top job from the UMR factory. Vote Up!
Hey Steve.
1. I think if you look at the comment page….I am back and commenting. Got more spare time since finishing the remodel.
1A. About a week ago….I tracked down your Ford comments and responded back to them.
2. Actually working on lots of movie pages….Helen Mirren, Laurel & Hardy…just ot mention a few.
3. Wow….I actually have your tally beaten….did not see that coming granted….ok….it is 8 to 7…but it is still a victory.
4. The Angel movies caused some serious issues when putting together this page……your Angel movies made me laugh.
5. Kings Row is worth a visit….Ronald Reagan’s best performance.
6. If you like Dodge City….then you should check out the video attached to our Dodge City page…..it really shows how much different things are today. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/dodge-city-1939/
7. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.
STEVE
1 Where is el capitan you ask. I understand he’s an admirer of method acting so it’s possible he’s working on an Invisible Man page!
2 Yes and Anne Baxter was the Oscar Girl and Myrna Loy was the Stand In Girl.
STEVE/BRUCE
1 When Steve gave us his excellent Ann Sheridan page back in June I commented at length on her career and I have copied to THIS page the exchanges at the time between Steve and me because as you know I think the Lensman video and WH page ideally complement each other.
2 Besides (1) what Steve and I have to say is normally worth “syndicating” ! (2) my 2nd post to Steve contains one of my Myrna quips which will once more brighten up the day of regulars of this site (3) as Steve and I both chastised the Work Horse for neglecting Sheridan it’s worth recording that the circle has now been squared in that matter.
3 I need add now only
(1) Didn’t previously know about the Sister Annie/Brother Bogie nicknames They made several films together of course but my favourite of those was It All Came True in 1940 when Bogie was on the eve of super stardom.
(2) Also as Steve just covers a selection of a star’s movies in his videos I hadn’t appreciated how prolific a career Ann had until I saw Bruce’s table. Her main film career ended when she was just 41 and she sadly died relatively young at 51.
(3) “Good things come in small packages” and I liked the Work Horse’s miniaturesof Ann with Archie and Mr President.
BOB
June 20, 2017 at 3:55 am
1 STEVE Ann Sheridan who started in movies in the 1930s probably had her heyday in the 40s when she shared star billing with many of the male Greats of the Classic Era – Grant, Cooper, Bogie, Raft, Flynn and Cagney as well as with Bette Davis. Certainly when I began watching films in the early 1950s Ann’s movies seemed to be mostly small scale affairs though I enjoyed a few of them – Steel Town, Just Around the Corner and especially the 1956 Come Next Spring. Sadly Ann’s career vanished after 1956
2 The excellence of the posters and stills in your video was consistent throughout and deserving of a 95.5% rating in my opinion. I loved the POSTERS for Appointment in Honduras, Naughty but Nice,Good Sam, Stella, and especially the unnerving one for Black Legion, and the saucy one for Take Me to Town, one of Ann’s 1950s routine movies that I was talking about and which I also watched s a youngster.
3 Superb STILLS were those from They Drive by Night with Bogie/Raft, with Flynn and gun in Edge of Darkness, with Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces and the ones of Ann and cat and her horizontal in slinky pose But I thought that topping even those were the sultry Ann in Navy Blues and Ann with Mr President In King’s Row, a collector’s item for fans of both .movies and politics.
4 I am surprised that there is no WH Sheridan page as Ann made most of her great films with Warner Bros for whom Bruce has the ledgers of those times. However he has listed on the pages of Ann’;s co-stars all of the movies in your Top 5 and his average for the 5 is approx 79% within a whisker of your own 80%. A good entertaining video overall.
Steve Lensman
June 20, 2017 at 8:24 am
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, rating and info, always appreciated.
Glad you like the posters and stills.
We’re back to the golden oldies after a hiatus following Roger Moore’s death last month. Ann Sheridan would be a good subject for Bruce’s movie emporium.
Where is el capitan is he still MIA?
Sheridan was the ‘oomph girl’ but I’ve read she didn’t like that nickname. Clara Bow was the ‘It Girl’, Dorothy Lamour ‘The Sarong Girl’, Lana Turner ‘The Sweater Girl’ and Jean Harlow ‘The Blonde Bombshell’.
Only one Ann Sheridan movie recieved 10 out of 10 from my sources and that was the Jimmy Cagney classic Angels With Dirty Faces.
Hey Bob….like Steve commented….good suggestion in moving these comments here. #4 is no longer valid. It only took a less than 4 months….lol.
Hi
I thought one of her best performances was in The Man Who Came To Dinner, although a supporting role, she really stood out. It’s strange when her career really took off playing the lead in the late 40’s, it seemed to end so abruptly by the early 50s. Again, Warner Brothers was overcrowded with female talent. The likes of Davis and Crawford would get first choice. Nevertheless she was a very talented star and it was sad that as her T.V. career was taking off, she tragically died.
Hey Chris….thanks for checking out our latest UMR page. I agree with you about The Man Who Came To Dinner. That is one of the Sheridan movies that I have seen….and she more than holds her against Bette Davis. Davis was at the peak of her career when they made that movie. I think Sheridan, like lots of other former studio thespians…..struggled when the 1950s arrived and the studio system made them free agents…..even the greats like Crawford and Davis struggled. Her television show sounds interesting….I am amazed that I had not even heard of that show before doing this page. Good feedback as always.
Ann Sheridan came to my attention when I was 8 or 9 years old and her TV series Pistols and Petticoats was shown on german TV in a late afternoon slot. To this day, I can still hum the title tune…although I have no other memory apart from the fact that I loved “Grandma”.
Yet, I have not seen as many Sheridan movies as I would have thought- 18 from the list. As it often is the case, I have a weak spot for the ones that didn’t bring in the money in their day, for my absolute favorite “stand-alone” Ann Sheridan film is Come September. To be honest, as much as I love Sheridans’s performance (Joel, can you hear me?), it is Steve Cochran who impressed me here. Others I like are Woman on the Run, Take me to Town, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Man who Came to Dinner, I was a Male War Bride, Nora Prentiss, Kings Row and The Unfaithful. As Elliott bisnow already stated, she was THE SINGLE saving grace in that awful remake of The Women, The Opposite Sex. Ann Sheridan died from Cancer at the young age of 51, her days as a movie star long gone by then. Yet, the former “Oomph Girl” certainly deserves to be remembered among Hollywood’s leading actresses of the past and by giving her her own UMR page, even Lupino learned a thing or two he didn’t know before about her. So, Thank You again, Mr. Cogerson!
Hey Lupino
1. Thanks for the feedback on our latest page.
2. Good to know that Pistols and Petticoats is nice memory for you and others…..not only had I not seen any episodes of that show….I had not even heard of it.
3. 18 is the highest total yet….beating Flora’s tally of 16.
4. Good to see giving Joel a shout out……I like keeping the man’s name alive here at UMR.com.
5. I have not seen Come September…..but I will keep an eye open for that movie.
6. Of your favorite Sheridan movies….I am right there with you about Angels With Dirty Faces, I Was A Male War Bride and Kings Row are my Top 3.
7. I recently picked up a Top TCM Greatest Actress Book…..and they listed 50 all-time great actresses…I had UMR pages on 45 of the actresses….Sheridan was one of the missing 5…..but no more…..as I now have UMR pages on 46 of those actresses.
Thanks for the very kind words and help.
Boy, must I have been in my Gina Lollollollo modus, typing in Come September when Ann Sheridan starred in the forgotten, but really good Come Next Spring!
The inevitable question to answer nr. 7: Are Margret and/or Sylvia included in that book?
Really nice having the master of the house back on commenting comments 😉
You are my new hero. Thank you. Very eloquent.
Hey Lupino….I did not even notice you had written Come September instead of Come Next Spring…..I even wrote that I had not seen Come September…when in fact I have. As for the TCM book…..going by memory…I think Margret made it…..but Sylvia did not…..but I might be wrong. I should have written down the missing ones….I know Lena Horne was one of the missing ones….she seems to be a good one to do a UMR page on. We are still doing some tweaks to the database….but my heavy lifting is done….for awhile….time to get back to producing new pages and comments. Good stuff.