Want to know the best Eleanor Parker movies? How about the worst Eleanor Parker movies? Curious about Eleanor Parker box office grosses or which Eleanor Parker movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Eleanor Parker movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) was a 3-time Oscar® nominated American actress. Parker signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1941 when she was 18 years old. Her acting career would end up being 6 decades long. Her IMDb page shows 80 acting credits from 1942-1991. This page will rank 35 Eleanor Parker movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. This UMR page comes from a request by Mike.
Eleanor Parker 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 Eleanor Parker films by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Eleanor Parker films by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Eleanor Parker films by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Eleanor Parker films 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 Eleanor Parker film received.
- Sort Eleanor Parker films by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Eleanor Parker Table
- Thirteen Eleanor Parker movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 39.14% of her movies listed. Her biggest hit was The Sound of Music (1965).
- An average Eleanor Parker movie grosses an average of $122.10 million in adjusted domestic gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 21 Eleanor Parker movies are rated as good movies…or 60.00% of her movies. Home From The Hill (1960) was her highest rated movie while An American Dream/I’ll See You In Hell (1966) was her lowest rated movie.
- Nine Eleanor Parker movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 25.71% of her movies.
- Two Eleanor Parker movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 5.71% of her movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 40.00. 21 Eleanor Parker movies scored higher than that average….or 60.00% of her movies. The Sound of Music (1965) got the the highest UMR Score while An American Dream/I’ll See You In Hell (1966) got the lowest UMR Score.
Eleanor Parker Adjusted Worldwide Box Office Grosses
- The Sound of Music (1965) $2252.60 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Hollywood Canteen (1944) $497.90 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Pride of the Marines (1945) $208.10 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Voice of the Turtle (1947) $191.10 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Interrupted Melody (1955) $186.40 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Many Rivers To Cross (1955) $177.50 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Home from the Hill (1960) $177.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Valley of The Kings (1954) $172.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Never Say Goodbye (1946) $169.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Above and Beyond (1952) $168.70 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The King and the Four Queens (1956) $137.50 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) $133.90 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Mission To Moscow (1943) $132.70 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Chained Lightning (1950) $128.50 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Between Two Worlds (1944) $77.30 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- The Woman In White (1948) $69.40 million in adjusted worldwide gross
- Lizzie (1957) $24.00 million in adjusted worldwide gross
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1 Eleanor Parker was one of my own very favourite actresses in the 1950s when she seemed to spend most of her screen time providing the love interest for usually more important male stars like Golden Holden and (3 times) Robert Taylor. Sadly she never acquired the top star status of a Deborah Kerr or an Ava Gardner for example and in fact of Eleanor’s top 20 highest grossing movies in the table above only Caged could be said to be a true Parker stand-alone movie.
2 However she was a very fine actress and her acknowledged versatility encouraged author Doug McClelland to dub her “Woman of a Thousand Faces” in his biography PARKER. Sir Roger Moore confessed to being “secretly in love with her” but said that he never attempted to form a relationship with her because they were both married to others when they met. My favourite EP flicks are Scaramouche, Escape from Fort Bravo, Madison Avenue and especially The Naked Jungle in which I thought she and Chuck made a great team – and John I think we need a few “chauvinists” like Chuck to offset wimps like Cooper who cry when they have to face the bad guys and do “what a man’s gotta do” and who have to be saved by their wives. And when I first saw Naked Jungle the audience broke into applause when Chuck proudly ultimately told the local natives that Eleanor was “Leiningen’s Woman.”
Cogerson
As has been commented, ironic that her long career is probably now best remembered for her supporting turn in The Sound of Music. A young leading lady at WB in the 1940’s. A star at MGM in the 1950’s. Three Oscar nominations for best actress. An intelligent, very beautiful actress. My own favorite isn’t TSOM or the grim dramas she was Oscar nominated for in the 1950’s, or even the fun turn in Scaramouche. I will always remember her courageously facing up to becoming the wife of an ultimate male chauvinist Charlton Heston and to also possibly getting eaten alive by army ants in The Naked Jungle. Perhaps not her best movie, but my favorite since I first saw it way back when.
And, oh yeah. She was in The Oscar, an all time “so bad it is good” trash masterpiece.
I have seen 20 of the Eleanor Parker films you list.
Eleanor Parker was certainly a talented, attractive and interesting actress. Too bad she is most remembered for her supporting role in The Sound of Music given her considerable popular and critical success in the 1950s. But her screen personality was perhaps more subtle and less shiny than other leading ladies of the time. I thought Home form the Hill was a good movie, but am bit surprised this is her highest rated one. The Man with the Golden Arm, Scaramouche, Detective Story and The Sound of Music are better. A bit too much reliance on Rotten Tomatos maybe. I haven’t seen Caged but would like to. Seems it was one of her best roles, if not the best.
Hello,
I am so Sorry but i saw the sounds of music and i do not remenber her at all , The only film i remembered her Is A King and Four Queens with Gable.
I think She Was réally great in that part.
Bye bye
Pierre
Eleanor Parker never made the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. She was connected to 3 in the top 100 in 2016 and seems to have a lot of connections in 2000 so who knows why. I thought she was very beautiful in Interrupted Melody and have seen The Man with the Golden Arm (it’s in the public domain and could be found in discount video bins 30 years ago). Here are the people she is connected too on the 2016 list.
15 SEYMOUR CASSEL Sunburn (1979)
26 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER The Sound of Music (1965)
67 JAMES HONG The Seventh Sin (1957)
142 ERNEST BORGNINE The Oscar (1966)
247 CHARLTON HESTON The Naked Jungle (1954)
660 ANN-MARGRET The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
681 ANTHONY QUINN They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
809 ROBERT MITCHUM Home from the Hill (1960)
848 ROGER MOORE Interrupted Melody (1955)
912 ARTHUR TOVEY Above and Beyond (1952)
966 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Madison Avenue (1962)
Besides Arthur Tovey, Kathleen Freeman and Roger Moore have fallen off the list since.
She had quite a few connections back in 2000.
32 KIRK DOUGLAS Detective Story (1951)
43 KEENAN WYNN A Hole in the Head (1959)
43 KEENAN WYNN Sunburn (1979)
54 STUART WHITMAN An American Dream (1966)
54 STUART WHITMAN Interrupted Melody (1955)
76 EDDIE ALBERT Madison Avenue (1962)
77 JOSE FERRER Return to Peyton Place (1961)
108 DUB TAYLOR A Hole in the Head (1959)
108 DUB TAYLOR Home from the Hill (1960)
131 VITTORIO GASSMAN The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
132 GLENN FORD Interrupted Melody (1955)
146 MIKE MAZURKI Mission to Moscow (1943)
158 JOSEPH COTTEN The Oscar (1966)
169 JOHN DEHNER Hollywood Canteen (1944)
169 JOHN DEHNER Scaramouche (1952)
169 JOHN DEHNER Three Secrets (1950)
191 GEORGE HAMILTON Home from the Hill (1960)
207 WILLIAM HOLDEN Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
221 JOHN CRAWFORD Chain Lightning (1950)
221 JOHN CRAWFORD Scaramouche (1952)
222 BESS FLOWERS Above and Beyond (1952)
222 BESS FLOWERS Home from the Hill (1960)
222 BESS FLOWERS Interrupted Melody (1955)
222 BESS FLOWERS It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
222 BESS FLOWERS Return to Peyton Place (1961)
234 AKIM TAMIROFF Panic Button (1964)
237 PETER LAWFORD The Oscar (1966)
241 BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Oscar (1966)
248 ARTHUR KENNEDY They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
251 MEL FERRER Scaramouche (1952)
270 FRANK SINATRA A Hole in the Head (1959)
270 FRANK SINATRA The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
271 PETER BROCCO Three Secrets (1950)
273 GEORGE COULOURIS Between Two Worlds (1944)
291 LEE GRANT Detective Story (1951)
296 KENNETH TOBEY Three Secrets (1950)
302 RICHARD ANDERSON Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
302 RICHARD ANDERSON Scaramouche (1952)
315 JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT The Seventh Sin (1957)
323 GEORGE SANDERS The Seventh Sin (1957)
345 WILLIAM PRINCE Destination Tokyo (1943)
345 WILLIAM PRINCE Hollywood Canteen (1944)
345 WILLIAM PRINCE The Very Thought of You (1944)
347 JACQUES HERLIN The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
361 JAMES WHITMORE Above and Beyond (1952)
362 BARRY SULLIVAN An American Dream (1966)
379 ANN DORAN Pride of the Marines (1945)
389 LEON ASKIN Valley of the Kings (1954)
397 ELKE SOMMER The Oscar (1966)
423 BRETT HALSEY Return to Peyton Place (1961)
451 DANA ANDREWS Madison Avenue (1962)
459 DABBS GREER Above and Beyond (1952)
463 EDWARD G. ROBINSON A Hole in the Head (1959)
463 EDWARD G. ROBINSON It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
483 MURRAY HAMILTON An American Dream (1966)
484 LEOPOLDO TRIESTE Panic Button (1964)
506 DOUGLAS FOWLEY The Naked Jungle (1954)
528 HAROLD GOULD An American Dream (1966)
532 JIM BACKUS Above and Beyond (1952)
562 PAUL BRYAR Interrupted Melody (1955)
562 PAUL BRYAR Valentino (1951)
571 CHARLES LANE Mission to Moscow (1943)
592 WHIT BISSELL Destination Tokyo (1943)
623 RUSS TAMBLYN Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
629 WALTER BROOKE They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
634 JOAN COLLINS Sunburn (1979)
663 MILTON BERLE The Oscar (1966)
682 RAY TEAL Hollywood Canteen (1944)
682 RAY TEAL Home from the Hill (1960)
682 RAY TEAL The Big Shot (1942)
682 RAY TEAL They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
691 GEORGE PEPPARD Home from the Hill (1960)
699 ART CARNEY Sunburn (1979)
705 CHARLES GRODIN Sunburn (1979)
707 DARREN MCGAVIN The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
763 FEODOR CHALIAPIN JR. Mission to Moscow (1943)
771 MICHAEL SARRAZIN Eye of the Cat (1969)
783 JAMES FLAVIN Hollywood Canteen (1944)
783 JAMES FLAVIN Mission to Moscow (1943)
783 JAMES FLAVIN The Big Shot (1942)
786 LLOYD NOLAN An American Dream (1966)
795 STEPHEN BOYD The Oscar (1966)
806 NINA FOCH Scaramouche (1952)
824 FRANK WILCOX Busses Roar (1942)
824 FRANK WILCOX Scaramouche (1952)
824 FRANK WILCOX The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
824 FRANK WILCOX They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
824 FRANK WILCOX Three Secrets (1950)
863 ALAN HALE JR. Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
878 DENVER PYLE Home from the Hill (1960)
891 GREGORY WALCOTT Above and Beyond (1952)
894 PHILIP VAN ZANDT The Very Thought of You (1944)
903 JACK KRUSCHEN Sunburn (1979)
915 IVAN TRIESAULT Escape Me Never (1947)
915 IVAN TRIESAULT Mission to Moscow (1943)
918 BETTE DAVIS Hollywood Canteen (1944)
935 STEWART GRANGER Scaramouche (1952)
962 OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
963 FRANK FERGUSON Mission to Moscow (1943)
963 FRANK FERGUSON They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
969 BYRON FOULGER A Millionaire for Christy (1951)
972 RICHARD BOONE Lizzie (1957)
982 BILLY BENEDICT Never Say Goodbye (1946)
994 ELLEN CORBY Caged (1950)
994 ELLEN CORBY The Seventh Sin (1957)
William Prince who’s on the above list had a daughter who wrote for the New York Daily News here years ago.
Eleanor also worked with 30 Oscar winners, not too shabby.
ANTHONY QUINN They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
ART CARNEY Sunburn (1979)
BETTE DAVIS Hollywood Canteen (1944)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD The Oscar (1966)
CHARLTON HESTON The Naked Jungle (1954)
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER The Sound of Music (1965)
CLARK GABLE The King and Four Queens (1956)
DOROTHY MALONE Hollywood Canteen (1944)
EDMUND GWENN Between Two Worlds (1944)
EDMUND GWENN Of Human Bondage (1946)
ERNEST BORGNINE The Oscar (1966)
FRANK SINATRA A Hole in the Head (1959)
FRANK SINATRA The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
GARY COOPER It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
GEORGE SANDERS The Seventh Sin (1957)
GIG YOUNG Escape Me Never (1947)
GIG YOUNG The Woman in White (1948)
GIG YOUNG They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
HATTIE MCDANIEL NEVER SAY GOODBYE (1946)
HATTIE MCDANIEL THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON (1941)
HUMPHREY BOGART Chain Lightning (1950)
HUMPHREY BOGART Hollywood Canteen (1944)
HUMPHREY BOGART The Big Shot (1942)
JAMES DUNN The Oscar (1966)
JANE DARWELL Caged (1950)
JANE WYMAN Crime by Night (1944)
JANE WYMAN Hollywood Canteen (1944)
JANE WYMAN It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
JOAN CRAWFORD Hollywood Canteen (1944)
JOAN CRAWFORD It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
JOSE FERRER Return to Peyton Place (1961)
JULIE ANDREWS The Sound of Music (1965)
LEE GRANT Detective Story (1951)
MARY ASTOR Return to Peyton Place (1961)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
PATRICIA NEAL It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
PATRICIA NEAL Three Secrets (1950)
VICTOR MCLAGLEN Many Rivers to Cross (1955)
WALTER BRENNAN The Oscar (1966)
WALTER HUSTON Mission to Moscow (1943)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
Back in 1979 when I was young and single I saw Sunburn (one of Farrah Fawcett’s great ones) on a Friday night (did not know Eleanor at the time). I went to 3 movies that night since I was going on vacation the next day and would be away for 8 days or so. So I also saw that night Americathon with John Ritter as president of the United States which h I thought was good then. Years later I saw it again and I thought what was I thinking. Also seen that night was the immortal Hot Stuff with I believe Jerry Reed (fresh off the Smokey and the Bandit film), Suzanne Pleshette and Dom Deluise. All 3 memorable movies, at least for a few weeks.