Want to know the best Jane Wyman movies? How about the worst Jane Wyman movies? Curious about Jane Wyman box office grosses or which Jane Wyman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jane Wyman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Jane Wyman (1917-2007) was an Oscar® winning American actress. She was also known as a singer, dancer and philanthropist. Her career spanned seven decades! Jane Wyman’s IMDb page shows 111 acting credits from 1932-1993. This page will rank 62 Jane Wyman movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Three of her short films, 22 television roles and 24 uncredited roles were not included in the rankings. This Jane Wyman page was requested by Chris and Just me.
Jane Wyman 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 Jane Wyman movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Jane Wyman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Jane Wyman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Jane Wyman 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 Jane Wyman movie received.
- Sort Jane Wyman movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (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 Jane Wyman Table
- Twenty-one Jane Wyman movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 33.87% of her movies listed. The Yearling (1946) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Jane Wyman movie grosses $94.40 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 31 Jane Wyman movies are rated as good movies…or 50.00% of her movies. The Last Weekend (1945) is her highest rated movie while Magic Town (1947) is her lowest rated movie.
- Ten Jane Wyman movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 16.12% of her movies.
- Five Jane Wyman movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 8.06% of her movies.
- An average “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 35 Jane Wyman movie scored higher that average….or 56.45% of her movies. The Last Weekend (1945) got the the highest UMR Score while The Spy Ring (1938) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Jane Wyman
- Sarah Jane Mayfield was born in St Joseph, Missouri in 1917.
2. How Sarah Jane Mayfield became Jane Wyman. Jane was her middle…her first husband was Ernest Wyman……she used Jane as her first name and kept Wyman after her divorce from Ernest.
3. Jane Wyman tried, unsuccessfully, to break into films as a child actress but achieved some recognition later for her singing on the radio.
4. After appearing in over 20 uncredited roles in the mid 1930s, Jane Wyman signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1936. This lead to credited roles, which lead to better roles which finally lead her to movie stardom.
5. Jane Wyman was nominated for 4 Oscars®. She won the Best Actress Oscar for 1948’s Johnny Belinda.
6. When comparing Jane Wyman’s Oscar® winning performance to other Best Actress winning performances….her movie is ranked as the 37th (out of 90 movies) best movie on our UMR Best Actress Oscar® page.
7. Jane Wyman held the record for the longest screen kiss for 47 years. She and Regis Toomey kissed in 1941’s You’re in the Army Now for 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
8. Jane Wyman was married five times. She had three children. All three of her children were with her 3rd husband, Ronald Reagan. She and Reagan were frequent co-stars on the big screen. Reagan of course found fame in politics.
9. Jane Wyman was one of the biggest stars of the 1940s. She appeared in 27 movies that grossed $2.97 BILLION…..that was good enough for 28th place on our Top Box Office Stars of the 1940s page.
10. Check out Jane Wyman‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Check Out Steve Lenman’s Top Ten Jane Wyman Movies You Tube Video
Still not enough Jane Wyman stats for you? How about some Wyman adjusted worldwide box office grosses?
- Hollywood Canteen (1944) $510,641,332.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Night and Day (1946) $429,360,621.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Crowd Roars (1938) $260,397,039.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Princess O’Rourke (1943) $255,298,539.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Cheyenne (1947) $208,699,415.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- One More Tomorrow (1946) $201,521,619.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Singing Marine (1937) $186,307,696.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Brother Rat (1938) $168,771,110.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Story of Will Rogers (1952) $117,561,363.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Magic Town (1947) $115,312,259.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Starlift (1951) $113,784,574.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Three Guys Named Mike (1951) $110,225,722.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Stage Fright (1950) $98,239,295.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Slim (1937) $87,165,392.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- My Love Came Back (1940) $79,085,722.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Glass Menagerie (1950) $76,047,920.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Honeymoon for Three (1941) $76,036,312.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) $49,781,650.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Smart Blonde (1937) $47,508,464.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Crime By Night (1944) $42,726,805.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Kid Nightingale (1939) $42,385,000.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- An Angel from Texas (1940) $32,658,171.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Private Detective (1939) $30,151,426.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- He Couldn’t Say No (1938) $27,680,000.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Public Wedding (1937) $24,486,152.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Mr. Dodd Takes The Air (1937) $15,836,152.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Body Disappears (1941) $11,337,676.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Torchy Blane.. Playing With Dynamite (1939) $7,506,963.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
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Hi, Jane Wyman was a very good actress in my humble opinion. I remember when you taped the Movie Magnificent Obsession for me in between your college courses. You taped in on a VCR tape and believe it or not I still have it. That was a very good movie with Rock Hudson along with All That Heaven Allows. I liked and have seen most of her movies and I would like to see LUCY GALLANT with Charlton Heston but it never gets on TV. That was a good movie too. I knew she was married to Ronald Reagan but did not know she was married five times. Thanks so much for this site – good luck with your site in 2018. MAY YOU BREAK ALL YOUR CURRENT RECORDS ON YOUR MOVIES, ETC. THANK YOU……………..I will have to pull up the site you did on you father shortly. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hey Bern1960….I figured you would have to mention one of your all-time favorite movies. I have actually not seen Magnificent Obsession…..neither this version or the Irene Dunne version. Hmmm….strange that Lucy Gallant does not play on television more often….I have never seen it on DVD or VHS (back in the day). Thanks for the good wishes for 2018…..the site seems to keep getting bigger and bigger. Dad’s Top 5 is still here….under Site Index….and in the Cogerson Life section. Thanks for stopping by.
I never knew Jane Wyman was Ronald Reagan’s wife! Cool! I have not seen any of the movies.
Hey Katie….WOW….you checked out our Jane Wyman page….I am impressed….I bet Pitch Perfect 3 had something to do with this…..lol. Thanks for stopping by.
Mr. Hirschhorn, seldom have I read a comment so fitting! Wyman’s Oscar winning performance was more than deserving of the world’s most coveted acting award. Same could be said, in my opinion, about Louise Rainer’s win as O Lan in The Good Earth and, perhaps, Vivien Leigh’s Blanche du Bois in Streetcar named Desire.
I have seen 24 of the movies listed, my first Jane Wyman film has been The Glass Menagerie, and although much too old for the part of Laura, I immediately fell in love with this sensitive actress (must have been about 16 at the time). I have stated before that I am a huge fan of Sirk’s All that Heaven allows, and other favorites include The Lost Weekend, The Yearling (she was great as the outwardly hard mother with a very soft heart), Miracle In The Rain, a four hanky movie if ever there was one, So Big, The Blue Veil (another sensitive performance, surrounded by great actors like Charles Laughton and Joan Blondell) and that underrated Hitchcock movie Stage Fright- although in my book she had to play second fiddle to Dietrich in that one, though billed above her. Wyman could also be funny and was quite charming in Here Comes the Groom, where she prooved to be an able songstress, too. Jane Wyman has stated that she was very grateful towards WB for keeping her employed during that first decade, when she didn’t bring in any money into the studio’s cash box and therefore never complained about the poor parts she was assigned to after she had acquired some marquee value. Thus, Wyman had her share of turkeys even after Johnny Belinda (A Kiss In the Dark, The Lady Takes A Sailor), searched for good parts at other studios while fulfilling her contractual obligations towards her home studio. The only time she openly voiced her disapproval was when WB did nothing to promote Miracle in the Rain, a project the catholic Wyman had harboured high hopes for. I’m not going into detail again about how much I enjoyed her TV series Falcon Crest, but I am also familiar with a lot of her other TV work.
On top of her Academy Award win and noms, Wyman was nominated twice for an Emmy Award for her recurring role in Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre as early as the late 50’s, won 3 Golden Globes between 1949 and 1984 plus a World Film Favorite Award (Henrietta Award “World Film Favorite” in 1951), was named Photoplay’s Most Popular Female Star in 1950 and received 2 Stars on LA’s Walk of Fame in 1960- one for her work in movies, one for her work on television.
Thank you very much for this “christmas present” 😉
Hey Lupino.
1. Glad you liked Joel’s thoughts on Wyman and Johnny Belinda.
2. You have put Wyman in some excellent company…Leigh, and Rainer….awesome threesome of actresses.
3. 24 Wyman movies seen….pretty impressive….I am at….counting….5….so you have seen almost 5 times my amount.
4. Sounds like Wyman and The Glass Menagerie made a lasting impression on you…..thanks for sharing that movie memory.
5. One of the stellar performances you mentioned…I have not seen too many of them….I have Stage Fright, Johnny Belinda, Lost Weekend, The Yearling and Night and Day. With the exception of Night and Day….I enjoyed all of them.
6. I want to see All That Heaven Allows, The Blue Veil and Miracle in the Rain.
7. I do not usually feature television shows….but over the years her Falcon’s Crest is garnered lots of comments….so I felt like I needed to show a picture of that show….it bumped The Lost Weekend from that spot.
8. I agree she was a well honored actress….with lots of Oscar and Golden Globe award love.
9. Happy to give you a late Xmas present.
Good feedback as always.
Hey Bruce,
I couldn’t agree more with you on Night and Day…though it was none of the actor’s fault, the film was just horribly scripted, imo.
Pollyanna is a nice film to watch with kids, Hayley Mills was just starting her short but hefty love story with the movie going audience here. It cost more than 3 million to make and earned just 3.75 million- didn’t kill Hayleys career, but wasn’t enough to get Wyman off to a fresh start.
By the way, Wyman wasn’t first choice for Angela Channing in FC- she only got the offer after Barbara Stanwyck wasn’t interested, as one of her biographers stated.
Thanks for your kind replies to my post in the past year…only my first with your website 😉
Hey Lupino
1. I think my favorite quote from Night and Day….was from Cole Porter….”It should be good…..none of the stuff in the movie is true”…..lol. I think the Kevin Kline version of Cole’s life story is much more accurate.
2. There is only one scene in that entire movie that I like….it is when Cary thinks Alexis Smith has dozens of kids…..funny scene….with a great Grant reaction.
3. Your comments have been awesome this year…..glad you found our website….this year had more changes than any other…..hopefully the massive construction project was not too distracting.
4. Good trivia on Wyman not being the first choice…..I think Stanwyck would have been fine…..but Wyman shined too.
Good stuff.
Welcome Cogerson… You wrote it very nice
Thank you Fahb.
In their book, Films in America, Martin Quigley, Jr. and Richard Gertner had this to say of Jane Wyman’s Johnny Belinda characterization: “The Wyman performance is incandescent….the innocence and beauty of the character were all written in her eloquent face. She won an Oscar and seldom has it been so justified”.
My 4 Star Jane Wyman Performances
1942’s Larcency Inc.
1943’s Princess O’Rourke
1945’s The Lost Weekend
1946’s The Yearling
1947’s Magic Town
1948’s Johnny Belinda
1950’s Stage Fright
1950’s The Glass Menagerie
1951’s Here Comes the Groom
1951’s The Blue Veil
1953’s So Big
1954’s Magnificent Obsession
1955’s Lucky Gallant
1955’s All That Heaven Allows
1956’s Miracle In The Rain
Hey Joel….lots of good movies here…good thoughts on her Oscar winning performance in Johnny Belinda.