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Carol Burnett (1933-) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans seven decades. She is best known for her groundbreaking comedy variety show, The Carol Burnett Show. She has also appeared in a wide variety of movies. Her IMDb page shows over 78 acting credits since 1955. This page will rank Carol Burnett movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television roles and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Carol Burnett Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Carol Burnett Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Carol Burnett
1. Carol Creighton Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1933.
2. Carol Burnett attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award® nomination.
3. Carol Burnett has won 6 Emmy Awards® and 5 Golden Globe Awards® . She also was given the first Golden Globe® Carol Burnett Lifetime Achievement In Television Award. On the movie side, she is a 4 time Golden Globe® nominee.
4. Carol Burnett once worked as an usherette at the Warner (now Pacific) Theater on Hollywood Blvd. One night, the movie playing was Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), a film Carol had seen and loved. She advised a late-arriving couple to wait until the next show because the film was so good, it should be seen from beginning to end. The manager overheard her, rudely fired her on the spot, and humiliated her by ripping the epaulets off her usherette uniform. Decades later, when she was to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she was asked by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce where she would like it placed. Carol asked that her star be placed in front of the Pacific Theater. In her memoir “One More Time”, she states the name of the manager who so rudely fired her, followed by an epithet that won’t be repeated here.
5. On the morning of her fifty-sixth birthday, Carol Burnett’s good friend Lucille Ball died – April 26, 1989. That afternoon, Burnett received the flowers that Ball had ordered for her birthday.
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I’ve seen just 4 Carol Burnett films, 3 of them animated – Toy Story 4, Horton Hears a Who, The Secret World of Arrietty and The Front Page.
Like previous UMR subject Andy Samberg I don’t think Carol Burnett is that well known here in the UK. And we have many celebrities here in Brexitland that are probably unknown in the US.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve. Thanks for the comment on our Carol Burnett page. I guess you’ll have to take my word for it, but here in the states Carol Burnett is a legend. I have fun memories of watching her show when I used to spend Saturday night at my grandmothers house.It was one of the few shows both of us liked. I liked it because Tim Conway was on the show a lot, and I thought he was very funny growing up. Conway like Carol Burnett did not cross the ocean for you and your fellow countrymen. But Joel put her in his book, so I was legally required to do an UMR page on her. Good stuff as always.
I have seen only 2 Carol Burnett movies:
Annie which I enjoy a lot
The Front Page, which was not as good as the original or the first remake His Girl Friday
I am a fan of The Carol Burnett Show. Lyle Waggoner died recently .
Hey Flora. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. She has a decent movie run after her showing off the air, but it’s not really last long. I have seen eight of her movies. We actually own The Front Page on DVD but it’s been a while since I watched it. I was looking through my Joel book, when I saw his write up on her, I thought I could knock out a page on her pretty quick. So now we have a Carol Burnett page. Good stuff as always.
I doubt if much of Carol’s [even limited] big screen output would appeal to me; and I have no inclination to hear ANYBODY’s voice in Toy Story. However she did do a series of 5 documentary cinematic movies from 1968-2004 [2 shorts and 3 features] and one of them made in 1999 whilst I have no idea what it’s about does have at least a title that chimes with my own inclinations at times: “Get Bruce”!
I think that I have provided enough information here and in Part One to demonstrate that Carol well deserves this new page especially as having debuted in 1955 she is still going strong at the age of 86.
She appeared last year in a couple of TV series – Mad about You and 40 asks a Question. As well as the Toy Story voice contribution she has OVERALL in the past 5 years appeared in 10 television presentations including 2 TV movies.
Currrently she has in the pipeline at post production stage for TBA release on the big screen “Sorta Like a Rock Star” – a DRAMA proving that for once The Master is [strangely] correct when he suggests she has honed her big screen skills over the years. I wish her every success – and in the meantime “Voted Up!”
Hey Bob. I have read a lot about Toy Story 4 I have seen Toy Story 4, at no time did I even realize Carol Burnett was a part of that movie, until writing this page. That makes the fact that it is her top ranked UMR page seem strange. Thanks for information on upcoming projects. Good stuff as always.
I have seen just one of the movies in the charts above: The Front Page which was a superior remake of the Al Leach 1940 ‘classic’ Our Girl Friday with the old Lemmon/Matthau firm in the Rosalind Russell/Archie roles respectively.
Archie was a great actor in my opinion but I never found him or his so-called screwball comedies FUNNY and I therefore am still after all these years unable to respond positively to them; but Lemmon and Matthau I have ALWAYS found funny especially as a team.
However Carol is another performer who has gotten along nicely without my custom just as The Great Mumbler was able to survive the absence of Joel’s approval: she has a reported current net worth of $25 million and IMDB credits her with 48 entertainment awards and 47 nominations.
Also whilst her big screen output might be relatively sparse her television work has been enormous and she has done some good work on the stage:
1/a whopping 85 television productions between1955-2019.
2/12 stage productions from 1959-2014. These included her in the title role of the legendary Calamity Jane which is a role that she also played in a 1963 TV movie.
Hey Bob. Interesting points about Cary Grant’s screwball comedy days. His Girl Friday was one of the few times Grant got to be the one stirring the chaos pot. All of his other movies he was the guy that had to react to the chaos. It was one of Grant’s favorite roles for that very reason.
I also enjoyed her version of that story. Thanks for the additional information of her non-movie career. She is of course a TV legend here while her stage acting is not as well-known as you point out it’s still pretty impressive. Good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE
Thanks for the feedback. As we keep telling each other it’s all a matter of personal taste and I have always preferred the Al Leach of Notorious/Charade/To Catch a Thief and especially N by NW.
I liked Archie in as well An Affair to Remember which iMDB classifies as a “romantic drama”. He does well too among my own top idols with The Great Mumbler clearly being influenced by Archie’s acting techniques and my Doris telling him when they made That Touch of Mink together that he Archibald was her 2nd favourite movie star after Cagney.
I hope you and your family are keeping safe and that you all have a good weekend.
“Carol Burnett is much more popular on TV than in films but – like Mary Tyler Moore — she has the range, charm and appeal to be equally successful on the big screen. …..as she gets older her performances seem to get more precise and cinematic.” – 1983 Rating The Movie Stars book
Carol Burnett 4 Star Movie Performances
1972’s Pete ‘n’ Tilllie
1981’s The Four Seasons
Well….I like getting Joel’s thoughts on the website. I have seen 8 of her movies…so more than half. I do admit…I heard nothing about her having a voice in Toy Story 4….but I like knowing that little bit of trivia.