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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Steve Lensman
November 11, 2017 at 8:21 am
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing my Jane Wyman video, appreciate the rating, info and trivia. Glad you liked the posters and stills.
I wasn’t sure that was Wyman in the swimsuit photo so I had to double and triple check, it just seemed unusual to see her in that kind of pose and she had nice curves. I found a photo which I assume took place on the same day and shows another woman applying suntan lotion to her. If you go to google images and type in ‘jane wyman swimsuit’ that other photo is somewhere at the top and it does look like her.
There was a sequel to Brother Rat which I didn’t include, it was a low scorer.
Jane on winning her Oscar for Johnny Belinda – “I heard my name called and the first thing that came to my mind was ‘Did I or didn’t I put on my girdle tonight? Then I thought, ‘So what? Let it bounce.”
“Ask Ronnie the time and he’ll tell you how the watch was made.”
On Reagan’s death – “America has lost a great president, and a great, kind gentleman.”
Only one Wyman movie scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – The Lost Weekend, four others scored 9 – Johnny Belinda, Pollyanna, Larceny inc. and The Yearling.
More ladies in the coming week.
BOB
November 11, 2017 at 5:10 am
HI STEVE 1 My perspective of Jane Wyman’s career is that it was relatively short as that of a very top star. Until Johnny Belinda in 1948 she played 2nd fiddle or less to most other stars like Ann Sheridan and Betty Grable, was even 2nd billed to Dennis Morgan, himself no vertiginous box office star, and her career peaked in 1954/55 with the hits Magnificent Obsession and All that Heaven Allows both of which heralded in the Rock Hudson era of super stardom and possibly would not have been hits to the same extent without him.
2 Then the 3 movies she made immediately after All that Heaven Allows averaged only an adjusted $57 million each domestically and after that it was back to supporting roles again as in Disney’s 1960 Pollyanna in which Jane was 2nd billed to newcomer Brit “wonder child” the 14 year-old Hayley Mills.
3 However I welcome this video and I found much to admire in it and for me the best of the many slick posters were Cheyenne, Crime by Night, Lucy Gallant with Chuck, The Crowd Roars, Night and Day and Let’s Do It Again and I must make special mention of all the ones for So Big and the 2 Hudson flicks as those splendid posters are among ones which are unique to me.
4 My pick of the stills were the unusual “pin-up” one of young curvy Jane, her and my Greg, the astonishing one from Johnny Belinda and of course no Wyman pictorial would be complete without her and Mr President, though unfortunately nowadays when Jane is mentioned it is not for her own splendid achievements but as Ronnie’s one-time wife. Bet though Democrats later loved the title of the Wyman/Regan movie together “Brother Rat”! No WH page but for me this video was a good way to start the weekend and worth 97% as a measure the pleasure it gave me
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STEVE/BRUCE
1 Belated happy New Year greetings to you both as my computer was out of action for the past few days and has just been restored.
2 When Steve did his Jane Wyman video back in November it encouraged an unusual 3-way exchange posts among the 3 of us so I am copying them to Jane’s new Cogerson page.
3 Bruce has been as good as his word in his promise to provide the new page and all that I need to add now to the exchanges is that you both agree on 4 of Jane’s Top 5 for artistic merit.
4 Bruce includes Magnificent Obsession in his 5 whereas Steve ranks it 7th, preferring instead Pollyanna. Bruce also ranks higher than does Steve the other Hudson/Wyman flick All that Heaven Allows, Bruce making it 2nd and Steve listing it 5th.
5 As those two movies are high on my own list of all-time favourites I naturally back Bruce’s higher placings. However there is clearly not much between the two sets of rankings and as Steve’s posters and stills are excellent I forgive him for being stingier than Bruce in rating them!
Hey Bob.
1. Happy Belated New Year to you.
2. Sorry you are having computer issues.
3. Thanks for taking the time to search, find and move these comments to our new Jane Wyman page.
4. Glad you like my rankings better on this page….my mom, like you is a huge fan of the Wyman/Hudson movies…..she would say they are ranked too low….lol.
5. Thanks for the feedback.
Hello Bruce,
Interesting story on your John Wayne find…sometimes I wonder what will happen to my books when I’m gone. The early ones have many notes and additions in them…therefore the cover often is hardly recognizable anymore and the pages often are an assembly of leaves ? Anyway, Im much more careful with the rarer ones nowadays. I love second hand bookshops, when I was in London last year(yes, its already 2018 here!) I spent a lot of time locating Dvds and books. One I found and bought was The Films of William Powell, another one was Extasy and Me by a certain Hedwig Kielsler ? In bed with my tablet already, guess I had that one drink too many to celebrate the New Year ?for I find it hard to go to sleep. Hope your New Years Eve was great, Happy New Year to you and your family!
Hey Lupino. I had the same thought when I realized that a huge Wayne fan had previously owned that book. That person obvious kept track of Wayne for years…..and probably passed away…..and then somebody went to their book shelf, boxed all the books up and sent them to a thrift store. I was like….”Is the same thing going to happen to my movie books?”. I do not have as many as you….but I have a decent collection.
I like you, am a lot more careful with my books as I got older and wiser. Sounds like you found a good Kielsler book. Glad you had a good New Years…..ours was pretty quiet but fun. Our neighbor put on a nice firework show…..but it was 18F here last night….we beach folks are not used to such weather….lol.
Happy New Year.
Hey Bruce,
If you find 2 books on Wyman impressive, I’d love to see your expression on seeing my bookshelf ? Collecting film related books since I’ve turned 16…which makes it 40 years now. From silent screen star Asta Nielsen to the more modern ones like Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand and Bruce Willis …I think Dietrich and Monroe take up the most space, because of some high quality photobooks, but Hitchcock might win when it comes to pure informational publications. My “prize possessions” are two limited editions, one a huge photo book on MM when she was still called Norma Jeane and nr 706 of only 1000 copies of 1978s The Films of Jennifer Jones. And just in case you might ask yourself…Yes, I do have a life apart from movies ?
Hey Lupino.
1. I guess not being a huge Wyman fan….the fact that she has more than one book on her was impressive…..and then you having them is even more impressive.
2. 40 years of movie books…..very very awesome. WoC loves to go to thrift stores….first place I go to is the used book section…..and I start looking for movie books. Often I come up empty handed……but every once in awhile….
3. I hit the jackpot. A few years ago….I bought a book on John Wayne…..when I got home…I noticed the book was filled with external clippings on Wayne, from interviews to reviews….to the sad newspaper stories of his passing. Obviously a huge Wayne fan had been collecting these articles for years. It was easily my greatst find.
4. Dietrich, Monroe and Hitch….that is a fine threesome.
5. I like your prize possessions……especially the Monroe or Norma Jeane one.
6. Good to know you have a life apart from movies….but movies….make life so much fun….Happy New Year.