Want to know the best Grace Kelly movies? How about the worst Grace Kelly movies? Curious about Grace Kelly’s box office grosses or which Grace Kelly movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Grace Kelly movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which movie got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
On America Film Institute’s list of the Greatest American Screen Legends, Grace Kelly is listed as the 13th greatest actress. I think the most amazing thing of that accomplishment is the fact that her film career only lasted 5 years and only produced 11 movies. Even she only appeared in 11 movies she still managed to have many great movies on her resume.
Her IMDb page shows 30 acting credits from 1950-1956. This page will rank 11 Grace Kelly movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that received limited North America releases were not included in the rankings.
Grace Kelly Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Grace Kelly movies by the co-stars of her movies.
- Sort Grace Kelly movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in milllions)
- Sort Grace Kelly movies by their yearly box office rank
- Sort Grace Kelly movies 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 Grace Kelly movie received.
- Sort Grace Kelly 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.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Grace Kelly Table
- Nine Grace Kelly movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 81.81% of her movies listed. Rear Window (1954) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Grace Kelly movie grossed $206.68 million in adjusted box office gross
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 10 of Grace Kelly’s movies are rated as good movies…or 90.90% of her movies. Rear Window (1954) is her highest rated movie while Green Fire (1954) was her lowest rated movie.
- Eight Grace Kelly movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 72.72% of her movies.
- Four Grace Kelly movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 36.36% of her movies.
- A “good movie” Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score is 60.00. 10 Grace Kelly movies scored higher that average….or 90.90% of her movies. The Country Girl (1954) got the the highest UMR Score while Green Fire (1954) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Grace Kelly
1. Grace Patricia Kelly (1929-1982) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2. After some successful television appearances, Grace Kelly appeared in her first movie…. 1951’s Fourteen Hours. Although her performance in Fourteen Hours did not get much notice, she did attract the atttention of producer Stanley Kramer. Kramer hired Grace Kelly for the classic western, 1952’s High Noon which won Gary Cooper his second Oscar®.
3. After High Noon’s success, Grace Kelly became a hot commodity in Hollywood. Over the next 4 years she would appear in 9 more movies. Her third movie was 1953’s Mogambo with Clark Gable. Kelly would receive her first Oscar® nomination for Mogambo.
4. 1954 was a huge year for Grace Kelly as she made 5 of her 11 movies that year. First up was the her first of three movies with Alfred Hitchcock….Dial M For Murder. After Dial M For Murder….Hitchcock and Kelly moved to Rear Window. Rear Window is one of the best movies ever made. After Rear Window, Grace Kelly filmed The Country Girl starring Bing Crosby and William Holden. Kelly would win the Oscar® for Best Actress for her Country Girl role. Her fourth movie was the forgotten Green Fire, but her fifth movie of 1954 would reunite her with William Holden in the blockbuster The Bridges at Toko-Ri.
5. In 1955 she would only make one movie, but it was the classic film, To Catch A Thief. To Catch A Thief was her third movie with Alfred Hitchcock as the director but her first and only time she co-starred with Cary Grant. To Catch A Thief is my favorite Grace Kelly movie, although Rear Window is pretty close as well.
6. In 1956 she would make her last two movies…The Swan.…and her final movie High Society which co-starred Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra….and then her movie career was over….so what happened?
7. What happened was Prince Rainier III of Morocco. After a secret courtship that started at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly fell in love and became engaged. On April 4, 1956 they got married and thus Grace Kelly’s movie career came to an immediate halt. Princess Grace had three children with Prince Rainier….those child were Princess Caroline, Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie.
8. In 1981 Prince Rainier and Princess Grace celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. In 1982 Princess Grace while driving a car, had a stroke and crashed the car. The combination of the car crash and the stroke proved to be too much to overcome. She passed away at the age 52, one day before she would have turned 53.
Check out Grace Kelly‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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PS BRUCE
Your spelling of Louis Jourdan’s surname was of course correct and mine in the previous post was wrong
BON
Hey Bob. I have probably spelled his name wrong more than once…..but like Fredric March…I eventually figured out how to spell it correctly.
BRUCE
1 Exceedingly rare multiple mix ups in Grace’s co-star links column:
2 Green Fire was Granger/Paul Douglas
3 The Swan was Guinness/Jordan
4 14 Hours was Basehart/Paul Douglas.
BOB
Hey Bob…thanks for the catches…..I really messed that up. It actually goes to your point about her being a secondary lead. Those 3 movies….I am not aware of…..and easily got the co-stars mixed up…..about to fix that error.
No way would I have put Cary Grant was in Rear Window and James Stewart was in To Catch A Thief.
1 According to one of Grace’s biographers Bing Crosby took a fancy to Grace when they made The Country Girl together in 1954.
2 At the 1955 Oscars ceremony Grace won Best Actress for the Country Girl and the same biographer says that Bing went to her apartment to congratulate her and found her in the company of Marlon Brando who had just picked up Best Actor for On the Waterfront. The biographer didn’t make clear whether Marlon’s presence was romantic or social but it is claimed that nevertheless the two men came to blows
3 It is also suggested that Grace did an Audrey Hepburn on the set of Mogambo (1953) by seeking a romantic attachment with King Gable 28 years her senior. The report claims that the King wasn’t interested. However at least Grace’s attentions were positive in contrast to those of Monroe whose antics on the set of the Misfits some historians partially blame for the King’s fatal heart attack.
4 Grace’s screen career was brief lasting from 1951-1956 and in that time in all of her films she was buttressed by other great stars: Cooper, Gable, Ava Gardner, Jimmy Stewart, Holden, Grant,Sinatra, Crosby and Stewart Granger who was having a good run at MGM at the time
5 Indeed according to Wikipedia her only top billed film The Swan lost 7 million overall in today’s dollars though Cogerson accords it a respectable domestic figure whilst not a vertiginous one. Joan Crawford once said that to be considered a Great Star you had to demonstrate conclusively that you could pull your weight at the box office
6 Accordingly in my view Grace never proved herself as a star who could carry a film on her own and I therefore feel that her position in AFI Greatest Screen Legends flatters her and might well be largely due to the fact that her very scarcity on the screen had at the time ended in a fairy-tale marriage to a Prince which was unique for a Hollywood star.
7 Certainly her inclusion in the Screen Legend’s list to the detriment of stars like Susan Hayward, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne and box office champion Doris Day raises questions in my mind as to how serious to take that list.
6 Nevertheless this update is a comprehensive objective summary of the box office element of Grace’s compact career and therefore should be welcomed as a valuable historical document.
Hey Bob.
1. I read that Grace Kelly pretty much fell in love with all of her co-stars….which made the acting really easy….so I can easily believe the story about Bud, Grace and Bing.
2. As pretty as Grace Kelly was….it is hard to believe that the “King” turned her down.
3. Her career was like a shooting star…..it shined bright….but it was brief.
4. Alfred Hitchcock was madly in love with her….she pretty much gave him the blonde fascination he carried the rest of his life.
5. I just watched Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco……it paints a pretty sad picture of her life as a fairy-tale.
6. I think the fact that we did not see her age on screen….Monroe has the same thing….makes her stay forever young in our minds….I recently re-watched Always….and it was almost sad seeing Audrey Hepburn looking so frail.
7. Thanks again for catching my co-star errors…..good to know they you found it so quickly.
1 All’s well that ends well.
2 However I took my eye off the ball regarding Grant/Stewart as the further updated gross of 513.80 for Rear Window was the first thing to grab my attention at the top half of the page. I take it you will in due course do the cross-over with the new figure to Hitch and Jimmy’s pages.
3 Am now looking forward to the Glenn Ford update.
Mmmmm…..Stewart and Kelly have one number but Hitch has another….and box office mojo has yet another…have I ever told you that movies that have been re-released many times drive me crazy? I will have to see what is going on.
BRUCE
If you have the time keep me posted so that I can regularise my own data base
Many Thanks
BOB
BRUCE:
1 I read that in the last decade of his life Gable tried to avoid serious affairs as he liked things like cards and nights out with ‘the boys’ so that he often took the easy way out and paid for feminine company
2 Tippi Hendren of The Birds fame and of course the mother of Melanie Griffith claimed that Hitch deliberately ruined her career because she rejected his romantic interest in her. She said he had her under contract and would neither put her in any of his own new films nor loan her out to anyone else.
BOB
Sadly this is one of the pages that all of the comments were lost forever.
This is an excellent tribute to one of my favorite actresses of all-time. Good job
Thanks Kelly Fan….this is the third version of this website on the third different web provider….maybe one day I will get it right…..lol. Glad you like the tribute.