Want to know the best June Allyson movies? How about the worst June Allyson movies? Curious about June Allyson box office grosses or which June Allyson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which June Allyson movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
June Allyson (1917-2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer. Allyson’s “girl next door” image was solidified during the 1940 and 1950s. She appeared in 35 of her 37 movies in those two decades. Her IMDb page shows 75 acting credits from 1937-2001. This page will rank 37 June Allyson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her 27 television roles, her 10 shorts and her one movie not released in North American theaters were not included on this page. This page comes from a request by Mike.
June Allyson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
June Allyson 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.
- Column One is the name of the Allyson movie and the link for the trailer for that movie
- Sort June Allyson movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort June Allyson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort June Allyson movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort June Allyson 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 Oscar® wins each June Allyson movie received.
- Sort June Allyson movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About June Allyson
1. Eleanor Geisman was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1917.
2. When June Allyson was eight years old, she was crushed by a falling tree limb while riding a bicycle. She wore a back brace for four years and taught herself to dance by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies.
3. The legend is that the choreographer of 1938’s Sing Out The News, gave her a job and a new name: Allyson, a family name, and June, for the month. The reality? Allyson has attributed the name creation to a stage director she met before 1938.
4. June Allyson gained fame for playing what MGM dubbed the “girl next door”. She was cast alongside Van Johnson, the quintessential “boy next door” many times. As the “sweetheart team,” Johnson and Allyson were to appear five movies together.
5. Along with her husband Dick Powell, June Allyson persuaded future President of the United States Ronald Reagan to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in 1962.
6. June Allyson was married 4 times and had two children. Both of her children….Pamela Powell and Dick Powell Jr. also became thespians.
7. June Allyson’s favorite modern actors were: Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, and Meg Ryan.
8. June Allyson was good friends with James Stewart and played his wife in three different films.
9. June Allyson’s nickname was “Junie”.
10. Check out June Allyson’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Steve’s June Allyson You Tube video goes very well with this page.
Want more June Allyson stats? How about adjusted worldwide box office grosses on 24 of her movies?
- Thousands Cheer (1943) $484,894,313.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Three Musketeers (1948) $478,709,234.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) $450,044,008.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) $399,016,127.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Music For Millions (1944) $335,274,701.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Little Women (1949) $330,801,051.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Girl Crazy (1943) $310,658,574.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Two Sisters From Boston (1946) $297,974,136.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Secret Heart (1946) $260,501,938.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Words and Music (1948) $259,044,716.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) $223,952,998.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Best Foot Forward (1943) $222,758,087.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948) $214,315,124.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- High Barbaree (1947) $194,798,778.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Executive Suite (1954) $192,610,250.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) $180,844,373.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Opposite Sex (1956) $124,020,768.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Too Young To Kiss (1951) $114,081,148.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) $109,515,184.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Battle Circus (1953) $103,188,393.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Meet The People (1944) $83,709,674.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Right Cross (1950) $67,037,500.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Girl in White (1952) $58,715,144.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Remains To Be Seen (1953) $41,021,967.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
Seems like Hirschorn was supportive of Allyson while Shipman was not. What does his comment on Allyson have to do with Marlon Brando?
Hey In the Shadows….wow….two comments in one day…..we are honored. I agree with you about Shipman being harsh and Joel being supportive of Allyson. As for Brando…..he is one of Bob’s favorite performers. Good stuff.
Enjoying the videos. A thought on They Only Kill Their Masters. I actually saw this movie in a drive-in in the mid 1970s. I thought it was entertaining, but this trailer makes it look like a high school stage show.
Hey In the Shadows….seems like I have seen They Only Kill Their Masters….but after watching that trailer (which I agree with you 100%….looks horrible) not sure if I have seen the movie or not. Glad to see our latest addition of videos has dragged you out of the shadows….lol.
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
Excellent Web site for June Allyson.
Thx
Hey Mike….glad to be of help….and that you like the June Allyson page.
BUD BRANDO
HELLO MR HIRSCHHORN
1 As you keep writing on this site it must be assumed that viewers are entitled to keep responding to your posts. I agree with the great David Shipman’s view that Miss Allyson often personified “niceness” on the screen and was very good in the role of the loyal “little wife” as in three films with Mr Stewart and in The McConnell Story with Mr Ladd and Executive Suite with Mr Holden. She did though play a shrewish spouse who drove husband Jose Ferrer into a mental institution in The Shrike. Not a very nice way to treat Mr George Clooney’s uncle!
2 However Hollywood insiders have long regarded Miss Allyson as bottom of A list or Top of B list among TOP movie stars depending where you draw the line and they were never convinced that she could carry too many movies on her own. In most of those movies where she was teamed with another important star(s) she in effect played 2nd fiddle or less as witnessed for example by the fact that one of her movies with Mr Stewart was called The GLENN Miller Story though she was his wife.
3 Mr Cogerson who is often referred to as your pupil or disciple on this site has produced an excellent table of the adjusted grosses for films in which Miss Allyson appeared and if you would care to conduct a detailed examination of the 22 films which Mr Cogerson says earned more than 100 million in today’s dollars you will perhaps conclude that in only 6 of them could Miss Allyson be said to have had the lead role. She has NO stand-alone movies
4 Unfortunately anything which I have read of yours –admittedly not over much – seems to avoid such fine-tuned factual considerations as those that I have set out above and instead appears to be too often founded on sweeping hyperbolic statements that by virtue of being highly subjective cannot be proved or disproved.
5 It can of course be reasonably argued that there is nothing wrong with subjective analysis and broadly I would agree with that belief provided that the subjectivity is fair and balanced and sadly I have seen little evidence that you are disposed to recognise a level playing field in forming your judgement of performers. For example in an article that you wrote about me and which your Mr Cogerson reproduced on this normally impartial and well-informed site of his you seemed to imply that I was obsessed with making money and that struck me as a strange and indeed highly selective point to make a fuss over.
6 For example is it your contention that I have been the only movie star or at least one of a few performers who has been interested in making as much money as he/she can? Surely many of those performers about whom you are so flattering and sentimental must have made fortunes in Hollywood and it would be difficult to imagine that you think they got it by for example helping elderly ladies across the road.
7 In the United States the chosen form of economy is the capitalist model and one of the assumptions of that model is that the level of earnings is usually determined by market demand. The producers and/or the financial backers of movies do not give their money away and if they pay out large fees they calculate that the recipients will provide them with a financial return that is proportionate to the fees. For the record I had no points for The Godfather and the 3 movies for which I got really big money were Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now and Superman 1978 and reliable sources estimate that those same 3 movies globally grossed slightly in excess $2 billion or around $700 million each. If stars whom YOU admire failed to earn the same kind of money as I the markets must have assumed that they weren’t worth it.
8 Besides acting is really all I could ever do and I don’t have the versatility to embark on a career as for example a nightclub performer or a film journalist and anyway I would rather have been at the creative end of film making than have earned my living as someone who merely writes about other creative people. Besides I am sure that even failed nightclub performers and hack journalists like to earn as much money as they can, so why pick on me?
Merry Christmas next month. Yours BUD
Hey Bob
1. Based on Joel’s paragraph on June….Shipman did not like Allyson movies at all.
2. I think if you look at almost all of the MGM leading ladies….most were in the same boat as June. My MGM leading lady book gives June lots of props.
3. Brando had a wonderful career….I think Joel even stated that in his Rating The Movie Star Book….sorry that I did not recreate the entire essay on Brando.
4. June’s average box office is pretty impressive…using the $100 million hit page…..that puts her in the Top 30….and in a group with Greer Garson and Olivia de Havilland….that is a pretty good group.
Thanks for the feedback.
In his book, The Great Movie Stars, David Shipman says, “The niceness of June Allyson has gone out of fashion. Watching an Allyson movie on TV is like drowning in sugar.”
It’s a brutal indictment and on closer look an unfair one. A great many of Allyson’s films were saccharine, but others demonstrated a strong, individual talent.
My 4 Star June Allyson Movie Performances.
The Secret Heart (1946)
Good News (1947)
Words and Music (1948)
Little Women (1949)
The Stratton Story (1949)
1 I wholeheartedly support many of the points in Mr Brando’s response to the current [and seemingly unending] observations from Joel and would just add my own comments to a few of the points that Mr B makes.
2 Miss Allyson was voted one of the Top 10 most popular movies stars of 1955 in Quigley and I suppose that it is not unreasonable to regard her as an A list star at least in that year. However over the decades there have been of course many numerous stars of importance and a list becomes unwieldy and also loses its meaning if too many people are crammed into it. Accordingly I regard A list actresses as historically the likes of Katie Hepburn and Liz Taylor and by comparison with those June is decidedly B list
3 Historians tend to regard a stand-alone contribution by a movie star as ideally one where the star is billed alone above the title as I think Elvis was in all but 2 of his movies or at least one where whilst there may be other performers in leading roles the film is nonetheless built around the persona of one particular star as in for example the Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin runs of movies.
4 Most big stars have other prominent performers in their movies to maximise profits but they usually demonstrate that they can carry a film on their own as The Duke did on numerous occasion. Bruce has commented on Brando’s big box office pull in the 1950s and whilst in 7 of his 10 1950s movies he enjoyed the presence of other prominent performers like Glenn Ford and Sinatra, Marlon’s other three movies had his name alone above the title –Wild One, Waterfront and Sayonara – and Bruce’s chart shows that they earned an adjusted total of $730 million at the box office, an average of nearly $245 per movie per movie.
5 Joel has not been the first to make a fuss over Brando’s earnings. In the late 1970s a member of the British House of Commons [ie an MP] got up and denounced the “greed” of entertainers and he quoted as one example Marlon’s then record fee for Superman.
Ironically therefore over the past number of years members of both houses of Parliament in Britain [The Commons and The Lords] have been embroiled in a massive scandal over the fiddling of their expenses claims to get their arm into the taxpayer who it was found were often subsidising Parliamentarians in feathering their own nest with money meant for official Parliamentary business. Normally respected party leaders were named and shamed for some minor offences and I think returned the money, but 4 MPs/Lords went to prison. Motto “He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.”
APOLOGIES . Brando made 11 movies in the 50s and I should have clarified that the 10 that I was referring to in my last post were those including Streetcar that marked his period as a star in the 1950s. His very first The Men didn’t do much at the box office
Hey Bob….nobedy is perkect…..lol.
Hey Bob
1. Just re-read the Joel essay on Brando….besides one small comment at the end…he does bring up money…..and that small comment….could be given to any aging movie star that has not made many movies in recent years.
2. I think we will differ on the definition of movie stars until the end of time….to me….if you are used to promote the movie….then you are a star. Lionel Barrymore is listed on almost every movie poster he appeared in….was he a stand alone star? Probably not…but he was a star…..and helped movies make money.
3. Brando had a awesome career. He was in the first group of people to get an UMR page….ok…..it was a HubPage hub….but you know what I mean.
4. Good feedback as always.
Hey Joel….a little harsh commentary by David Shipman. Glad you give her more credit.