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Farley Granger (1925-2011) was an American actor. Granger is best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: 1948’s Rope and 1951’s Strangers on a Train. His IMDb page shows 86 acting credits from 1943 to 2011. This page will rank Farley Granger movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. Sadly that includes many of Granger’s Italian movies. 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.
Farley Granger Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Farley Granger Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Farley Granger
1. Farley Earle Granger was born in San Jose, California in 1925.
2. Farley Granger was one of the last of Samuel Goldwyn’s contract players.
3. Farley Granger’s studio publicity department was concerned audiences would confuse Granger with British actor Stewart Granger, so they suggested he change his name and offered him a list from which to choose. “The names were all interchangeable, like Gordon Gregory and Gregory Gordon. I didn’t want to change my name,” Granger later recalled. “I liked Farley Granger. It was my father’s name, and his grandfather’s name. They kept bringing me new combinations, and finally I offered to change it to Kent Clark. I was the only one who thought it was funny.” Eventually the studio issued a press release announcing Farley Granger, a senior at North Hollywood High School, had been cast in The North Star after he responded to an ad in the local paper. “I thought that was a really dumb story,” said Granger. “The truth was much more interesting.”
4. On the audio commentary for They Live by Night (1948), Farley Granger says that Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray were the best directors he ever worked with. In addition, his two favorite films of his own are Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951) and Ray’s They Live by Night (1948).
5. Farley Granger might be the only actor to play the hero and a villain in an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Granger was one of the villains in 1948’s Rope and the hero in 1951’s Strangers On A Train.
Check out Farley Granger’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
The audience and Sir Maurice at first think that the reason for Larry trying to kill Sir Maurice is that the latter has been carrying on with Larry’s wife in the plot but detective story novelist Larry explains to Sir Maurice something like “Her! You can have her. You’re going to die because you sneered at my great detective Sinjen Lord Merridew!”
As it is I Master regard your worth to this site as boundless; and indeed when your name comes up I think of the closing passages of Arnold Bennett’s 1911 classic novel The Card [aka Denny the Audacious in the US] played by Sir Alec Guinness in the 1952 movie The Card.
Whilst the dictionary describes “A Card” as a pesrson generally as a someone who rarely is taken seriously the final exchanges in Bennett’s book show how The Card in Bennet’s story is regarded with affection and admiration by most people with whom he comes into contact. When Denny The Card stands for election as local mayor –
“What a card!” said one voter laughing joyously. “He’s a rare one no mistake.”
“Of course this’ll make him more popular than ever” said another. “We’ve never had a man to touch him for that.”
“And yet” demanded Councillor Barlow “what’s he done? Has he ever done a day’s work in his life? What great cause is he identified with?”
“He’s identified” said the speaker, “with the great cause of cheering us all up.”
Hey Bob Fun comment.
HI JOEL I am becoming very worried about posts on this site like the one this morning by that Cutting Edge chappie which appears to suggest that you may not be THE ONE when it comes to assessing the worth of film stars and their movies.
You and The Work Horse and I know that’s bunkum of course and speaking for myself whilst I keep him going at times about you nonetheless I am an avid reader of your 1983 book which I quote often on this site though at times under different titles; and the only minor criticism I have is that I think you use too many commas.
However WH seems to get annoyed if one is not taking his idols seriously and it would worry me if he thought that I was making fun of you hiding behind different names like The Cutting Edge. I would always be open in such matters and indeed I’m famous on this site for adopting a leaf from Donald Trump’s book and “telling it as it is”.
The reason for my worry though is one of personal safety: as you know WH is a big fan of Sir Maurice Micklewhite [aka Michael Caine] and in the 1972 movie Sleuth Lord Larry Olivier [better at Shakespeare than that mumbling fellow I’m sure you will agree] tries to murder Sir Maurice. Continued in Part 2
Hey Bob. As I said before, and I’m sure I’ll see many many more times, I like his book but it is not a B guide to movies.
“A wonderfully tongue-in-cheek scripted RKO adventure story directed by Josef von Sternberg. Jane Russell enthrals as she gets romanced by the laconic Mitchum and they create movie magic together through their brilliant nuanced performances. She’s the good-bad girl while he’s the hard-luck innocent who can’t even win when playing with loaded dice. If you are looking for an underrated film noir gem—that somehow got swept under the rug—this is it.”
John Baxter in the prestigious International World Film Guide Series supports Schwartz’s view and particular lauds Jane’s comic timing in an amusing bedroom scene. Whether or not one agrees with the wider politics of President Trump he seems to have a point when he warns us not to be TOO easily swayed by “experts”; so is it OK with you Joel if I watch Macao and make up my own mind about Jane?
I hasten to add that I speak only for myself in this matter Joel. In the P G Wodehouse stories aristocrat Bertie Wooster is very dependent on his manservant and butler Jeeves and the theme song to the television series The World of Wooster [1965-67] sung by Ian Carmichael as Bertie was appropriately “Oh what would I do without you Jeeves?”
I have no doubt that on some other occasion regardless of my own conclusions about Jane I will again be awakened from my slumbers by Mr Cogerson leading his more pliant viewers in a chorus of “Oh what would I do without you Joel?” [NB: Jeeves was played by Denis Price]
Hey Bob Peary good story on Jane Russell. Very entertaining. Those phrases you talk about, would indeed be music to his ears. Regardless what you think of him as a movie critic, the man knew little bit about music. He’s four Oscar nominations and two wins would back his points.
HI JOEL: I am half- asleep while writing this because I have just been prematurely awakened from deep slumber by the customary fanfare of trumpets and cheering across this site that invariably greets your latest post. My but not since the days of Moses and his Ten Commandments have anyone’s words ever had such authority at least on Cogerson.
One of those commandments is “Thou shalt have no other Gods before me!” but I don’t mind admitting that it is a hard commandment to keep when your teachings are conveyed to us here. YOUR 1983 book is OUR Bible.
Of course different people have a diversity of religions and work from different Bibles; so I always get a spread of ‘religious’ views and that’s a good thing too; because 1952’s Macao starring Bob Mitchum and Jane Russell is showing on our local TV movies channel next week and recalling how you on page 331 of your book that Jane was virtually talentless as an actress and star I was tempted to give Macao a miss.
That might have been a mistake because of what Dennis Swartz writing in Ozus’ World Movie Reviews says in 2005 about Mitchum and Russell in that movie -see Part 2 of this post.
Hey Bob. Interesting comment back to Joel. I wish she was still around to read these comments. Granted he probably wouldn’t like them, but he probably find them entertaining.
“…..he was a competent, likeable performer,and well-suited to the romantic leads he played. …..Years later he took over the lead role in Broadway’s Deathtrap, reminding audiences of an acting talent that had too rarely been exploited in movies”
Rating The Movie Stars 4 Star Farley Granger Movie Performance
1949’s The Live By Night
1951’s Strangers on a Train
1954’s Senso (not on the table)
Hey Joel. Always glad to get another one of your subjects off my list of pages to do.