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
- 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.
- An average Betty Hutton movie grossed $164.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
- 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.
- Seven Betty Hutton movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 36.84% of her movies.
- Two Betty Hutton movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.52% of her movies.
- 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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I haven’t seen many of her films but the ones I’ve seen I’ve enjoyed. I think the Miracle is definitely her best movie and stands up even today.
Pearls of Pauline wasn’t bad. Annie get your Gun has great music but compared to Calamity Jane I don’t think it’s as good. It’s a pity she fell out with Paramount in the 50’s at her peak, she wanted her husband to direct her and they refused. She walked out and it seemed to end her movie career which didn’t seem to make much sense. Sadly as the years went on her mental health deteriorated and she had a serious breakdown.
She had always wanted to make a movie on the Broadway star Sophie Tucker but it never came about. Thanks for the page.
Hey Chris….well you have seen a lot more than me….I am at 1 (The Greatest Show On Earth). Glad to see you liked Miracle on Morgan’s Creek….that was her favorite role of her career and the one I want to see the most…now that I have done a Hutton page. Her quick fall is probably the quickest and tallest fall in movie history…..maybe Fatty Arbuckle’s has her beat. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
[And there were those who thought that I would miss the opportunity to comment on one of the great icons of Hollywood’s Golden Years !
“If you don’t know me by now
You never will know me.”
Theme song from Class Action 1991]
1 In 1942 Betty graduated from short movie subjects to feature films which over the next 10 years made her so important that she was billed over Astaire in Let’s Dance! (1950) and in blockbusterthe Greatest Show on Earth (1952) DeMille put her at the head of an all star cast that included stalwarts like Heston and Jimmy Stewart.
2 As Bruce says by 1952 she had become the 3rd biggest international star – and then went into virtual oblivion for insisting that her husband direct her next film and when the studio refused she broke her contract and was unforgiven. It was 5 years before she made another film, Spring Reunion which as is illustrated in the table above was a flop that completely ended her movie career though critics described her performance as “sensitive and understated.” a contrast from some of the manic performances of her heyday.
3 Flora tells us how Judy Garland’s friends felt “betrayed” when MGM replaced Judy with Betty in Annie Get Your Gun. However apparently because of severe depression Judy was behaving erratically and MGM felt she needed to rest. Anyhow it wasn’t Betty’s fault that the part had to be filled by other than Judy.
4 We all make mistakes and Betty’s career has always interested me so I welcome this newest page which recognises the POSITIVE achievements of a former top star who sadly committed professional suicide and ironically at the height of her popularity. Well done Bruce.
BOB
The problem was that they went out of the HOME STUDIO of MGM. There were plenty of female stars who had already filmed in for Judy. When Judy was ill on The Pirate shooting schedule, friend Gene Kelly pretended that HE WAS ILL.
Hey Flora…that was awesome of Gene Kelly to do. It reminds me of Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne standing up for Van Johnson when he got in a car accident while filming A Guy Named Joe.
Yes I remember that beautiful story about Van Johnson and Spencer, Irene and Kate Hepburn convincing MGM to put the film on hold while Johnson recuperated from his near fatal car accident. Van ended up portraying an injured military man in Irene Dunne’s film The White Cliffs of Dover.
Van Johnson talked about it in a featurette on TCM. as he said:
Normally, he would have just been replaced. Today he would be replaced.
There was only one Judy.
And there was only one Van Johnson.
Hey Flora…yep it is a great story about Tracy, Dunne and Johnson….and you are correct….there was only one Judy and one Van.
1 Tracy and Dunne were in an on-set feud and it was NEGOTIATED with MGM that they would bury the hatchet and shoot some of their own scenes while Van recovered. Therefore Van was not costing the studio money with UNSCHEDULED delays from breaking working agreements. Neither of course was he throwing tantrums and making a general nuisance of himself. If I were Gene Kelly I might not thank people for putting it about that I tricked my employers into costly delays by telling lies about my health.
2 Once they hoped matters had improved MGM quickly put Judy into Summer Stock but it lost money because Judy had continued to hurt the budget with production delays. Despite that MGM cast her opposite Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding but again she continually ignored working schedules and her MGM contract was terminated.
3 Astaire was professional and sensible enough to realise that if Judy was permitted to indefinitely drain MGM’s budgets for her movies the jobs of the executives themselves could be under threat from financial investors. [How did he think those guys got all that money in the first place – by helping old ladies across the road?” Jack Warden said about Newman’s character in The Verdict.]
4 Studios were continually hiring out their stars and borrowing other performers from elsewhere so to single out the Betty Hutton borrowing arrangement for criticism is I feel a disproportionate reaction to a widely accepted ‘swings and roundabouts’ business norm.
Usually suitability for the role and box office bankability were the main factors determining such exchanges and It would seem that the chief concern of the “friends of Judy Garland” who complained might have been to secure the part for themselves; whereas MGM may have decided that those ‘friends’ were inappropriate on this occasion and anyway if they were worth their salt there would be other good parts available to them. When Betty Hutton starting making difficulties for her studio she too lost her contract.
1. I had read that Tracy and Dunne had some difficulties….but I also read in a Dunne biography that by the end of the movie they had resolved their differences….and ended up on at least friendly terms.
2. Judy’s issues with movie schedules is well documented….seems there is always an actor or actress having these problems….Judy gave way to Marilyn……Marilyn gave way to Elizabeth…..and so forth.
3. Good quote for The Verdict…..which should be the movie Newman won his Oscar for….versus The Color of Money….sorry went off on a rant….good point about Fred A.
4. I had not thought about your 4th comment in that light before….interesting. Seems fighting the studios is normally a bad idea…..the performer might be able to rise above the studios for awhile….but they all come back down and find that studios do not want to deal with the headache of the star…can you say Lindsay Lohan.
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Hey Bob….and he makes an appearance on our Betty Hutton page….thank you.
1. At the time of Greatest Show On Earth she was the biggest star….with the exception of Stewart…..but he was hidden to a large part.
2. Her fall from grace was very quick….to being on top of the mountain in 1952…..to no movies for 5 years…then only one more movie…..seems she took some bad career advice.
3. I agree at that time Garland was having lots of issues with dropping out of movies…and as you say…somebody had to take those roles.
4. WoC did lots of reading on her (we were having a hard time finding out how she became a Hutton)…and WoC did he research on her….and she found her career pretty interesting too.
Thanks as always for sharing your movie thoughts.
GOOD MORNING
1 One source suggests that at a different times Betty and Paramount might have been able to work things out as had happened in the past with studios and their stars in other such situations. However in the early fifties the UnAmerican Activities Committee had the studios under special scrutiny and executives became paranoiac about demonstrating that all of their employees were under tight control and that anyone perceived as a ‘rebel’ who challenged the broad status quo would be firmly dealt with.
2 If there is some accuracy in that suggestion then a kind of joining up of the dots emerges as it was Kirk Douglas’ company who gave Betty a further opportunity with Spring Reunion and of course Kirk was prominent in helping Dalton Trumbo re-emerge from the shadows.
3 Further coincidences are that
(1) Betty’s co-star in Spring Reunion was Dana Andrews who was a very dear friend of Kirk’s close professional associate Burt Lancaster,
(2) Your co-star link mentions that Ladd was one of Betty’s co-stars in the ensemble Star Spangled Rhythm and you have just given him a birthday tribute. It’s amazing to think that the period that has elapsed since Laddie’s death is now longer than his entire actual lifespan of 50 years.
(3) I think that the Hutton/Astaire Let’s Dance ! is the one in which Fred is addressed as “Young Man” as we have discussed in previous posts.
4. Ironically you’re probably now saying to yourself “I wish this guy would stop writing to me about Betty Hutton” ! so I’ll sign off by observing that WoC appears to do a lot of valuable movie research that mus be enormously helpful to you in exchanging information on your site.
Best Wishes BOB
Hey Bob.
1. Your comments and stories are always appreciated.
2. Interesting that her “rebel” image might have been another factor in her steep decline….that makes sense….because…I think movie producers main goal is to make money…..and for the 3rd biggest star in the world in 1952 to not make a movie in 1953,54,55 and 56 makes no sense…when she was healthy and willing to make movies. I imagine there are lots of things that made that happen.
3. Kirk saves the day again….loved his part in Trumbo the movie….the actor playing Douglas was very believable.
4. It is scary how fast time flies.
5. Very cool about Young Man.
6. As stated before…comment anytime….headed to take the girls shopping….tomorrow….a rude awakening for them as school starts…gotta buy those first day of school dresses
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HELLO AGAIN BRUCE
1 When her movie career ended Betty Hutton turned to TV but did not fare well in that medium. In fact IMDB have currently a page headed Movie Stars Who Bombed on TV and Betty is on the list along with quite a few others who would surprise you; so if you haven’t already seen it you should give it a glance. One of the others named is Betty’s old Greatest Show on Earth pal Jimmy Stewart.
2 Thanks for your response to my Cooper post as what you say about the Cooper/Hayworth/Sinatra billing issues makes perfect sense. Whilst Frankie may have given Burt Reynolds just a cameo performance at least he was happy enough to appear in one of his films unlike Bud who used his influence with Coppola to deny Burt the James Caan role in Godpop.
3 Moreover Bud compounded matters by taking opportunities to insult Reynolds in public and although that happened a long time ago Burt clearly still smarts about it because in recent TV interviews that I saw he pointedly complained about the snubs.
4 Apparently it came to a head one night when it is said Bud refused to give Burt’s girlfriend an autograph because she was in Burt’s company and Reynolds cracked and arrived on Brando’s doorstep to challenge him to fisticuffs; but Bud reportedly wouldn’t come out but instead sent an employee to say that “Mr Brando is tired and has gone to bed for the evening.”
5 I am watching the US Open tennis tournament at the moment and it conjures up very happy memories of the Labor Day that I spent in the States in 1999.and my visit to Planet Hollywood.
Best wishes BOB
Hey Bob.
1. I noticed that there were not many episodes of the Betty Hutton Show…I think 18 if I remember correctly. Which was about half of season before it got canceled. Yep James Stewart’s tv show was a huge disappointment for him….but he did not have to deal with that too often.
2. Speaking of Burt….his page is one that was written here at UMR.com…..so even though it did not exist on my first two pages…..it is quickly moving up my all-time rankings when it comes to views….maybe I should update that page soon….especially since it seems to always be pulling in views.
3. I did not know Burt and Brando did not get along…crazy story about Burt, his girlfriend, Brando and the autograph.
4. Very cool….the US Open…..I used to be a huge fan of Mats Vilander….he won the US Open in 1988…..I watched the entire 4 hour and 54 minute match….one of my greatest sports watching moments.
Thanks for sharing this information.
The only people still connected to Betty on the 2016 Oracle of Bacon Center of the Universe top 1000 are;
Red, Hot and Blue (1949) – 912 Arthur Tovey (of course our buddy)
Spring Reunion (1957) – our buddy Arthur again
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) – 247 Charlton Heston, 966 Kathleen Freeman
The Perils of Pauline (1947) – Arthur again
And now for something completely different. Here now are actors who appeared on the 2000 Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe who have fallen off the list but appeared in Betty Hutton movies. Ranks are for 2000
And the Angels Sing (1944) – 575 Douglas Fowley
Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – 43 Keenan Wynn, 824 Frank Wilcox
Cross My Heart (1946) – 963 Frank Ferguson
Dream Girl (1948) – 169 John Dehner, 222 Bess Flowers
Duffy’s Tavern (1945) – 362 Barry Sullivan, 783 James Flavin
Happy Go Lucky (1943) – 222 Bess Flowers
Here Cone the Waves (1944) – 192 Yvonne DeCarlo, 222 Bess Flowers, 379 Ann Doran, 783 James Flavin
Incendiary Blonde (1945) – 222 Bess Flowers, 671 Eduardo Cianelli, 783 James Flavin, 832 Don Brodie
Let’s Dance (1950) – 222 Bess Flowers, 265 Richard Crenna, 746 Herb Vigran, 832 Don Brodie
Let’s Face it (1943) – 192 Yvonne DeCarlo, 534 Bob Hope
Red, Hot and Blue (1949) – 222 Bess Flowers, 746 Herb Vigran, 894 Philip Van Zandt, 903 Jack Kruschen, 980 Victor Mature
Sailor Beware (1952) – 783 James Flavin, 877 Jerry Lewis, 882 Dean Martin
Somebody Loves Me (1952) – 222 Bess Flowers, 740 George Chandler, 746 Herb Vigran
Spring Reunion (1957) – 451 Dana Andrews, 740 George Chandler
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) – 118 Woody Strode, 187 Ray Milland, 534 Bob Hope
The Fleet’s In (1942) – 207 William Holden
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) – 194 Lawrence Tierney, 221 John Crawford, 222 Bess Flowers, 344 James Stewart, 406 Edmond O’Brien, 467 Van Johnson, 534 Bob Hope, 824 Frank Wilcox
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) – 234 Akim Tamiroff, 969 Byron Foulger
The Perils of Pauline (1947) – 222 Bess Flowers, 963 Frank Ferguson
Hey Dan….so Betty Hutton went from 53 to 5 from 2000 to 2016. Looks Bess Flowers fell hard in the rankings…it looks like she had to be somebody closely related to Hutton to appear in all of these Hutton movies…..thanks for the look at Hutton in 2000
Here’s a site you may like;
http://www.dejascene.com/
Hey Dan….very cool. I have saved that link….I have always wondered who worked with the most Oscar winners…that looks like a great place to research that question. I usually play that movie game in my head with Michael Caine. He was Nicole Kidman’s dad in Bewitched, he was Nicolas Cage’s dad in The Weather Man, he was Leonardo DiCaprio’s step dad in Inception, he was Anne Hathaway’s dad in Interstellar, he was Christian Bale’s butler in the Batman movies, he was Maggie Smith’s husband in California Suite….anyway it goes on and on. Thanks again for the link.
Others….in my Caine game. Cliff Robertson in Too Late The Hero, Elizabeth Taylor in X,Y and Zee. Morgan Freeman in 6 and soon to be 7 movies, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Shelley Winters in Alfie, Sally Field in Beyond the Posideon Adventure and Surrender, Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar, Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters, Kate Winslet & Geoffrey Rush in Quills, Charlize Theron in Cider House Rules, Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King, Laurence Olivier in many movies..but especially Sleuth.Christopher Walken in Around The Bend, Henry Fonda in The Swarm, Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions/Eagle Has Landed. Anyway…that is the ones that quickly popped into my head….and makes 21 for a start.
Try Lee Marvin
A Life in the Balance (1955) – Anne Bancroft
Attack (1956) – Jack Palance
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) – Ernest Borgnine, Spencer Tracy, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan (my niece is dating the son of Millard Kaufman who wrote the screenplay for that film)
Cat Ballou (1965) – Jane Fonda
Diplomatic Courier (1952) – Karl Malden, Patricia Neal
Donovan’s Reef (1963) – John Wayne
Emperor of the North Pole (1973) – Ernest Borgnine (again)
Gorilla at Large (1954) – Anne Bancroft (again)
Gorky Park (1983) – William Hurt
Gun Fury (1953) – Donna Reed
Hangman’s Knot (1952) – Donna Reed (again)
I Died a Thousand Times (1955) – Shelley Winters, Jack Palance (again)
Monte Walsh (1970) – Jack Palance (3rd time)
Not as a Stranger (1955) – Broderick Crawford, Frank Sinatra, Olivia De Havilland, Gloria Grahame
Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) – Edmond O’Brien
Pillars of the Sky (1956) – Dorothy Malone
Pocket Money (1972) – Paul Newman
Prime Cut (1972) – Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek
Raintree County (1957) – Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint
Seminole (1953) – Anthony Quinn
Ship of Fools (1965) – Jose Ferrer, Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret
Teresa (1951) – Rod Steiger, Peggy Ann Garner (special for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
The Big Heat – Gloria Grahame (2nd film)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) – Jose Ferrer (2nd film), Humphrey Bogart
The Comancheros (1961) – John Wayne (2nd film)
The Delta Force (1986) – George Kennedy, Shelley Winters (2nd film), Martin Balsam
The Dirty Dozen (1967) – Ernest Borgnine (3rd film), George Kennedy (2nd film)
The Iceman Cometh (1973) – Jeff Bridges, Fredric March
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) – John Wayne (3rd time), James Stewart,
Edmond O’Brien (2nd time)
The Professionals (1966) – Jack Palance (4th time), Burt Lancaster
The Rack (1956) – Paul Newman (2nd time), Edmond O’Brien (3rd time)
The Raid (1954) – Anne Bancroft (3rd time)
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (1966) – Alan Arkin, Eva Marie Saint (2nd time)
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) – Ernest Borgnine (4th time), Claire Trevor
The Wild One (1953) – Marlon Brando
Violent Saturday (1955) _ Ernest Borgnine (#5)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962) – Jane Fonda (#2), Anne Bancroft (#4)
We’re Not Married (1952) – Ginger Rogers, Jane Darwell (both 1940 winners)
You’re in the Navy Now (1951) – Gary Cooper
That’s 42 different Oscar winners, some after they won some before and does not count Miss Garner. I remember playing around with this. I don’t have every actor on file but I also remember there were a couple of Oscar winners who appeared with more winners.
Hey Dan….so you have Lee Marvin at 42 and Jack Nicholson at 41…..makes me motivated to find the total of Caine. I am roughly half way there…as my quick look got me to 21.
If I remember correctly…..I think you mentioned Marvin’s 42 when you requested the Marvin page many moons ago. Thanks for this detailed list and a high water mark to aim for.
Hey Dan….I found 48 Oscar winners in Michael Caine movies. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/michael-caine-movies-ranked/
Hey Dan…yep Mr. Tovey three times….and almost nobody else…..I see Kathleen Freeman’s name popping up…I probably need to do an IMDb search on her. Thanks.
I know what topic Steve would vote for:
Actors in horror movies.
The other two are huge undertakings and will need to be done slowly while you publish others I am guessing.
Everyone in Annie Gets Your Gun sing “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”
Love Steve’s comment.
Hey Flora….I think you are right about Steve. Thanks for the information on Annie Get Your Gun.
“There’s NO business like SHOW business…” I’m sure Betty Hutton belted that out in one movie but I’m not sure which, Annie Get Your Gun? I know Ethel Merman was associated with that song and she starred in a film with that title.
Anyways let’s have a look at the chart… just 19 films? I’m shocked.. I shocked I tells ya! I’ve seen just 5 of those films – Annie, Greatest, Let’s, Miracle and Perils.
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek tops the charts, okaaay, Preston Sturges is highly respected among film buffs but was he a successful director? I expected either Greatest Show on Earth or Annie Get Your Gun to top the UMR there’s no real reason for Miracle to top those two, was it more popular, did Betty win an Oscar for it? Bruce, an explanation please! [cue Bruce yawning] 🙂
Another lovely movie page Bruce. Howard Keel next? Ethel Mermaid? Voted Up!
Hey Steve….finally got motivated to do a new page. You are correct There’s No Business Like Show Business is listed under IMDb under Hutton and Annie Get Your Gun.
Yep only 19 movies….which is one reason why I got motivated. 5 of your tally count? That ties Bern1960 for second place….but 7 behind Flora for first place. I have seen one…The Greatest Show On Earth.
Well it was very close between the top three movies. Greatest Show on Earth was her biggest hit and got the most Oscar love….but the reviews are pretty low….actually one of the worst reviewed Best Picture Oscar winners. The Miracle on Morgan’s Creek was her top rated movie….plus her 5th biggest hit….plus it got a little Oscar love….that was enough to give it the Top Spot….but if you look at how close the UMR Scores are….it is pretty much a way three way tie.
Not sure who is next…..been working a few different things….all are different than the normal pages you normally see here….one is a What if Page….What if James Dean had taken Alec Guinness advice and not driven the car that killed him…and how his career would have gone. Two is a Who is the Next Marlon Brando page? and Three is about how almost every actor has to appear in a horror movie at some time.
As always…thanks for the feedback and the visit.