Top 100 Musicals

Sittin' on top of rankings is Gene Kelly's Singin' In The Rain
Sittin’ on top of rankings is Gene Kelly’s Singin’ In The Rain when looking at critic and audience rankings

Want to know the best Top 100 Musicals movies?  How about the worst Top 100 Musicals movies?  Curious about Top 100 Musicals box office grosses or which Top 100 Musicals movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Top 100 Musicals movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information…and alot more.

Over the years we have received many requests to do UMR pages on genres.  Besides doing a Sports movie page we have pretty much ignored those requests.  We ignored those requests because we could not figure out a way to put together a page on a whole genre. Recently we stumbled across a book called Musicals by Daniel Cohen.  In that book Cohen looked at the best of the best musicals from the 1920s to the mid 1980s.  At the end of the book was a filmography of all the movies in his book.  That seemed like a great starting point for us to finally do a UMR page on musicals. Here are rules we used when putting together this page.

(1) If Cohen listed the movie in his book…the movie made the page. (2) Although we are not really huge musical movie fans….a few of the musicals we actually like….did not make his book.  So we added our favorite musicals like Paint Your Wagon (Clint singing…. how did that not make the book?) and The Rocky Horror Picture show.  (3) Then we included movie musicals made after Cohen’s book was published.  (4) We did not include Biopics.  Yes movies like The Buddy Holly Story, Coal Miner’s Daughter and La Bamba have lots of music but almost all of it occurs on a stage or in a studio.  (5) We also did not include album movies like Purple Rain and Pink Floyd’s The Wall or most of the Disney animated classics….with the exception of Beauty and The Beast which was on every Best Musical Movie list we saw(6) In the end we actually ended up with way more than 100 movies….279 to be precise.  So since we researched them….we figured we would include them.  (7) Can’t find a musical on the table?  If it was before 1984….it is not our fault….you have to blame Daniel Cohen.  If the movie is made after 1984….then we will take the blame.  BUT….leave a comment detailing the missing movie…..and we will include it.  Enjoy!

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire are well represented in this collection of Top 100 Musicals….13 Rogers movies made the list and 27 Astaire movies made the list.

Top 100 Musicals 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 Top 100 Musicals movies by the stars of the movies
  • Sort Top 100 Musicals movies by actual domestic box office grosses
  • Sort Top 100 Musicals movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost
  • Sort Top 100 Musicals 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 Top 100 Musicals movie received.
  • Sort Top 100 Musicals 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.
  • Use the search and sort button to make this table very interactive.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Top 100 Musicals Table

  1. 194 Top 100 Musicals movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 69.53% of his movies listed. The Sound of Music (1965) was the biggest box office hit.
  2. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  224 of Top 100 Musicals’s movies are rated as good movies…or 80.28% of his movies.  Singin’ in the Rain (1952) is the highest rated movie while At Long Last Love (1975) is lowest rated movie.
  3. 168 Top 100 Musicals movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 60.21% of his movies.
  4. 66 Top 100 Musicals movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 23.65% of his movies.
  5. An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 235 Top 100 Musicals movie scored higher that average….or 84.22% of his movies. West Side Story (1961) got the the highest UMR Score while At Long Last Love (1975) got the lowest UMR Score.
Julie Andrews has 3 of the best reviewed musicals in the Top 30
Julie Andrews has 3 of the best reviewed musicals in the Top 30

Possibly Interesting Facts About Top 100 Musicals

1. The combined adjusted domestic box office gross for these 279 movies is $48.67 BILLION!

2. The 279 movies on this table received 573 Oscar® nominations.

3. The 279 movies on this table won 146 Oscars®.

4. 34 of these movies received Best Picture Oscar® nominations

5. 8 of these movies won the Best Picture Oscar®.

6.  The Great Ziegfeld (1936), An American in Paris (1951), Gigi (1958), West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), Oliver! (1968) and Chicago (2002) are the 8 Best Picture Oscar® winners.

 

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85 thoughts on “Top 100 Musicals

  1. 270 movies! Wow! So is this your biggest list of films so far Bruce? I think every noteworthy musical is on here. Incredible.

    I’ve counted 152 films seen, that’s 41 up from my last count when you had 216 films listed. I may have missed a few. Flora is still way ahead. The only chance of beating Flora is when you eventually get round to a sci-fi or horror movie page. 🙂

    Good to see Singin’ in the Rain topping the critics chart and another top favorite, West Side Story tops the UMR chart.

    I like the search box on top of the chart box, comes in very useful on a list this size.

    Excellent work amigo. Voted Up!

    1. Hey Steve….and the number keeps going up. I am thinking the more movies added to the page…the bigger lead Flora has over you. The search and sort buttons are vital for this page. I have been using it all day. Singin’ In The Rain….is hanging on to that top spot…..not thinking anything is going to dethrone it.

    1. Hey John…..it is a tough call…..to me it is Singin In the Rain….I like movies that go behind the doors of Hollywood. Thanks for stopping by.

  2. I see you’ve added some more to the table, and still adding, it was 224 a few seconds ago now it’s 225! Were the Elvis movies there yesterday? Can’t remember.

    Anyway I checked my database and found 45 musicals that weren’t on your list a moment ago, here they are in alphabetical order if you’re interested in adding any of them –

    The Barkleys of Broadway
    Belle of the Yukon
    Born to Dance
    Carefree
    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    Dance Fools Dance
    Dancing Lady
    Deep in my Heart
    Easy to Love
    Going Hollywood
    Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969)
    Help!
    Here Come the Girls
    Hollywood Canteen
    I Married an Angel
    The Ice Follies of 1939
    Invitation to the Dance
    It’s Always Fair Weather
    Jupiter’s Darling
    King of Jazz (1930)
    Les Girls
    Let’s Dance
    Lost Horizon (1973)
    Love Me or Leave Me
    Man of La Mancha
    Meet Me in Las Vegas
    Million Dollar Mermaid
    My Blue Heaven (1950)
    My Gal Sal
    Oh What a Lovely War!
    On Moonlight Bay
    On the Riviera
    Rose of Washington Square
    Scrooge (1970)
    The Sky’s the Limit
    Sprintime in the Rockies
    Stars and Stripes Forever
    Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
    Tea for Two
    Thank Your Lucky Stars
    Till the Clouds Roll By
    Varsity Show
    Weekend in Havana
    Words and Music
    Ziegfield Follies

    Some of them are quite famous and some were expensive disasters like Lost Horizon.
    Adding the 45 here to my original tally would bring it up to 156, have I caught up with Flora yet? 🙂 I’m sure Flora has seen many of these I’ve listed.

    1. Hey Steve….wow…thanks for doing so much work. Let’s see….I actually had most of the movies already in my database….the rest I will have to do some research.

      The Barkleys of Broadway….195th place
      Belle of the Yukon…..needs some research
      Born to Dance….needs some research
      Carefree….cracked the Top 100….66th place
      Chitty Chitty Bang Bang….needs some research
      Dance Fools Dance…209th place
      Dancing Lady….damn I did not do this one…but I have it
      Deep in my Heart…218th place
      Easy to Love….needs some research
      Going Hollywood…..186th place
      Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969)…cracked the Top 100…in 68th place
      Help!….needs some research
      Here Come the Girls…..257th place
      Hollywood Canteen….116th place
      I Married an Angel…was already on page…come on man….lol.
      The Ice Follies of 1939….245th place
      Invitation to the Dance…170th place
      It’s Always Fair Weather..cracks the Top 100….in 49th place
      Jupiter’s Darling…..needs some research
      King of Jazz (1930)…cracks the Top 100….in 50th place
      Les Girls….cracks the Top 100….in 90th place
      Let’s Dance….191st place
      Lost Horizon (1973)….235th place
      Love Me or Leave Me….137th place
      Man of La Mancha…220th place
      Meet Me in Las Vegas…needs some research
      Million Dollar Mermaid…162nd place
      My Blue Heaven (1950)….163rd place
      My Gal Sal….crack the Top 100…96th place
      Oh What a Lovely War!..needs some research
      On Moonlight Bay….cracks the Top 100….15th place
      On the Riviera….158th place
      Rose of Washington Square…..174th place
      Scrooge (1970)…cracks the Top 100….in 86th place
      The Sky’s the Limit…..185th place
      Springtime in the Rockies…in 151st place
      Stars and Stripes Forever…cracks the Top 100….in 79th place
      Story of Vernon and Irene Castle…120th place
      Tea for Two….171st place
      Thank Your Lucky Stars….216th place
      Till the Clouds Roll By….149th place
      Varsity Show..needs some research
      Weekend in Havana….150th place
      Words and Music…230th place
      Ziegfield Follies….128th place

      So 9 to research….1 to include (Dancing Lady)….with 9 cracking the Top 100…..thanks for the movie suggestions…you are the man!

      1. Wait a sec Bruce are you saying a lot of these were already on the page? Where was I looking? Pretty sure Goodbye Mr Chips, Million Dollar Mermaid, Les Girls, Scrooge and others weren’t there when I was making the list, you did have them in strict alphabetical order? Or was Les Girls listed as Girls, Les? The Million Dollar Mermaid?

        I see you’ve added 30 more, were they from my list?

        1. I added in 34 movies from the list you gave me. I Married An Angel was the only one from your list that was already on there. So the movie tally went from 224 before your comment to 258 after your comment. Got 5 more of your movies that I am about to put in the page. Trying to get them in before I go to work.

          1. I see. I got confused when you said they were already on the database, you meant the main database of every rated film. When you’ve finished I’ll check my tally again.
            I would recommend adding a couple of more Elvis films, Blue Hawaii, GI Blues and Viva Las Vegas were very popular and King Creole is one of his most highly rated films. Cheers. Excellent work sorting all this out. There’s no page like this on the net.

          2. Got 5 more in. Help! sits at 42nd……Oh, What A Lovely War sits at 102nd…..Dancing Lady sits at 150th……Jupiter’s Darling sits at 210th….and Varsity Show is 251st.

          3. Sorry for the confusion….yes…I meant to say that those movies were all ready in the main database. And yes I would give the King more credit….and add in the ones you suggested. All the Elvis movies are already in the database….so it will not take much to get them in too.

          4. Ok…Steve…let’s see just added in the list of the ones you suggested. King Creole is 40th, Viva Las Vegas is 111th, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is 152nd, G.I. Blues is 175th, Blue Hawaii is 190th, Easy to Love is 219th and Belle of the Yukon is 262nd. Once again..thanks for all of the suggestions.

    1. Hey Rick….well at the time there was no Godspell…..but after reading your comment…Godspell is now listed in the table….sitting in 145th place. Wow I did not know Victor Garber was making movies in the early 1970s. FYI Godspell was the 94th biggest box office hit of 1973.

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