Vincente Minnelli Movies

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Vincente Minnelli (1903-1986) was an Oscar® winning American film director.  He gained famed for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, The Band Wagon, and An American in Paris.   His IMDb page shows 38 directing credits from 1925 to 1957. This page will only be taking a look at 38 of his movies.   Movies will be ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

Drivel part of the page:  (1) This UMR movie page comes from a request from Flora.  (2) Recently Steve Lensman did a You Tube on Vincente Minnelli’s Top 20 Movies…lots of great movie posters there.  (3)  We only had to research 4 of the 38 movies….because we already had 34 of his movies in our database.  (4) Collateral Damage:  Only one of those 34 movies needed to have a box office adjustment….1949’s Madame Bovary…which saw that movie drop from the ranks of being a $100 million box office hit.

Vincente Minnelli, Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly on set of An American In Paris (1951)
Vincente Minnelli, Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly on set of An American In Paris (1951)

Vincente Minnelli Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Vincente Minnelli Movies Can Be Ranked 7 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Vincente Minnelli movies by co-stars of his movies
  • Sort Vincente Minnelli movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Vincente Minnelli movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions) *** not all worldwide box office grosses were found
  • Sort Vincente Minnelli movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Vincente Minnelli 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 Vincente Minnelli movie received.
  • Sort Vincente Minnelli 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.
Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland on the set off 1944's Meet Me In St. Louis
Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland on the set off 1944’s Meet Me In St. Louis

 Possibly Interesting Facts About Vincente Minnelli

  1. Lester Anthony Minnelli was born in Chicago, Illniois in 1903.  His father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers’ Tent Theater.  So he got his love for theater and his first name from his father.

2. Vincente Minnelli was allowed to apprentice for a year on the MGM lot. By the time he started directing, he knew every department at the studio.

3. Vincente Minnelli insisted on using a shade of yellow in the design of his sets that had to be specially mixed. MGM painters began calling it “Minnelli Yellow.”

4. Vincente Minnelli invented the crab dolly, a camera dolly on wheels that can move the camera in any direction.

5. Vincente Minnelli was nominated for two Best Director Oscars®:  1951’s An American in Paris and 1958’s Gigi.  He won for Gigi.

6. Vincente Minnelli is listed as the uncredited director on 1957’s The Seventh Sin, 1944’s The Heavenly Body and 194’s Panama Hattie.  We have included all three of those movies in the above table.

7. Vincente Minnelli directed seven different actors in Oscar®-nominated performances: Spencer Tracy, Gloria Grahame, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley MacLaine and Martha Hyer. Grahame and Quinn won Oscars for their performances.

8.  Vincente Minnelli was married four times. He had two daughters. His most famous marriage was to his frequent leading lady, Judy Garland.  They were the parents of Oscar® winning actress, Liza Minnelli.  His daughter, Christiane Nina Minnelli was from his second marriage.

9. Vincente Minnelli named his daughter Liza Minnelli after the Gershwin song Liza.

10.  Check out Vincente Minnelli‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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55 thoughts on “Vincente Minnelli Movies”

  1. He is one of my favorites. Overall I have seen 26 of his movies. I never would have guessed I had seen that many of his movies. Loved the Gene Kelly and Judy Garland movies. I remember laughing often while watching The Long, Long Trailer. Thanks for doing another page.

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  2. I don’t think anyone will beat Flora’s tally. I could only manage 15 films out of the 38 listed.

    I’ve seen most of Minnelli’s musicals, two of them are big favorites of mine – The Band Wagon and An American in Paris. Other favorites include – Meet Me in St. Louis, The Pirate, Gigi and Kismet.

    Not a huge fan of Brigadoon or Lust for Life, Kirk Douglas did a great job as Van Gogh, but his constant whining and whimpering got on my nerves I just wanted to reach into the screen and slap him hard.

    Top rated films I’ve missed include – The Clock, Home from the Hill or Some Came Running (I may have seen them I just can’t remember)

    Btw Gigi is rated a lot higher on my Minnelli video, here it didn’t even make the top 20. Some websites cite it as Minnelli’s masterpiece.

    Good work as always Bruce and thanks for the link, much appreciated. Voted Up!

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    1. Hey Steve.
      1. I think you are right….but my moms got close. Seems she is a big musical fan as well.
      Current Tally Count…
      Flora from Canada……33 movies watched
      Bern1960 from Canada……26 movies watched
      Larry from USA ……..17 movies watched
      Steve from England…..15 movies watched
      Cogerson from USA…..12 movies watched
      Laurent from France…..3 movies watched.
      2. I enjoyed The Band Wagon as well….The Pirate and An American In Paris are classics….she and Gene Kelly made a great team.
      3. Brigadoon was the most recent one that I have seen….it had it’s moments.
      4. Gigi’s 6.9 IMDb rating killed in my ranking system…..and it was only slightly higher at RottenTomatoes.
      5. Hope the link generates so traffic your way.

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    2. RE: GIGI:

      That is my favourite Louis Jourdan film.

      I have said that Frank Sinatra is my favourite singer of all time, and it is true.

      But Louis Jourdan had the ability to talk and sing going in and out in a way that is natural.

      And that song where he sings the tiyle song is – quite frankly – my single favourite recording of all time.

      It is the most beautiful, romantic and sexy recording I have ever heard.

      And that is why I was so upset when he died in his 90s.

      I have the recording on a tape – yes tape of BRoadway movies and Broadways songs.

      I listen to it odften.

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      1. 1 As I’ve already told Laurent Louis Jourdan is one of my all-time favourite French actors though he to a large extent became ‘Hollywoodized’

        2 He could do villains as well as good guys and musicals.

        3 He was in fact a beautiful man without being in any way ‘sissy’ I always thought that when he was younger he would have made a great Dorrain Gray

        4 His own favourite actor was Marlon Brando for whom he expressed public admiration.

        BOBBY

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        1. Talking of Louis Jourdan, I thought was superb as Count Dracula in a highly regarded BBC production of the 70s.

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          2. Hey Steve…never even heard of Jourdan as Dracula…..I will have to check that one out.

        2. Yes. He was often cast as a french lover and he did the role well:

          But he was a dynamic actor who could do drama as well.

          Just look at the episode of Columbo.

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        4. Hey Bob….he had a pretty good career. The highlight had to be………drumroll…..Swamp Thing…lol. Musicals, Bond movies, comic book movies….plus he liked Brando….hey maybe he needs a UMR page.

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      1. Hey Flora….GigI was 9 for 9 in Oscar noms and Oscar wins….including a Best Picture win. Hard to argue that it is NOT his masterpiece.

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    1. Hooray, Lawrence!

      17 may indeed get you somewhere on the podium, although I’ve beat you with 38.

      WE will have to see where Bruce falls…..

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    2. WEll, regarding The Cobweb – now that I have done a reworking of it, it will always hold a special place in my heart.

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    3. Hey Larry….thanks for the tally count. 17 probably gets you on the medal stand.

      Current Tally Count…
      Flora from Canada……33 movies watched
      Bern1960 from Canada……26 movies watched
      Larry from USA ……..17 movies watched
      Steve from England…..15 movies watched
      Cogerson from USA…..12 movies watched
      Laurent from France…..3 movies watched.

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  4. I love Vincent’s films.

    Here are my viewings by rankings;

    The highest ranked movie I have seen is Number 1: An American in Paris.

    The highest ranking film I have *not seen* is Number 26: I Dood it.

    The lowest ranking film I have seen is Number 37: A Story of Three Loves.

    Thus:

    I have seen :

    100 % of V.M’s

    Top 10
    Top 20
    Top 25

    Afterwards:
    28 of the top 30

    Overall: 33 of the top 38.

    There really is no film of this director that I hate.

    I have favourites.

    Obviously I love musicals.

    But he do a lot of dramas.

    Cabin in the sky was an early all black cast.

    I would like to direct your attention to a low ranking film he did called The Cobweb.

    It is another version of “Spellbound” in that it takes place in a Sanitarium and is goofy because everything focuses on the drapes.

    Recently, TCM aired a day of Richard Widmark movies during which time I did not intend to watch it again, but could not help myself.

    As a person who majored in Psychology, I tend to see psychological films on the basis of a potential profession of mine.

    Following some discussion in a general discussions thread on Richard widmark movies whose existence is the reason why I did not create my own Widmark thread as one already existed;

    I rewrote The Cobweb in the 20th CEntury Vole Thread based upon CaveGirl’s suggested title of The Suicidal Drapist – a reference to the character played by John Kerr.

    It is entitled:

    RICHARD WIDMARK’S THW COBWEB REMAKE: THE SUICIDAL DRAPIST.

    I was under the name of ColumboFan when I wrote it.

    Since the Vole thread is popular, you have to go far back to find it.

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    1. Hey Flora.
      1. I am glad you found “your” requested Vincente Minnelli page.
      2. Impressive that you have seen all of his Top 25….that might be a first when it comes to a classic page that is not one of our all-time favorites.
      3. Tally count….33 is impressive. Probably the winner…..let’s see I am at….counting….12…a little more than I thought it would be….I have seen….40% of the Top 25.
      Current Tally Count…
      Flora from Canada……33 movies watched
      Bern1960 from Canada……26 movies watched
      Larry from USA ……..17 movies watched
      Steve from England…..15 movies watched
      Laurent from France…..3 movies watched.
      4. I will have to check out The Cobweb and Cabin In The Sky.
      5. Thanks as always for sharing your movie knowledge

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  5. Thanks for my requested page on this fabulous multifactited director, father of Liza, husband of Judy.

    I amm not surer how this page was not already done or why I was the only person who had requested it.

    Liza is a great name. That song is beautiful.

    I am of course always talking about my favourite dynasties.

    Garland/Minelli/Luft – that is another dynasty.

    I love that this requested page came around the same time as Steve’s beautiful video.

    As I said before, I have seen all of these top 20 films in the video.

    I will now close this comment, and focus on the viewings/rankings.

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    1. Hey Flora….Steve has been on a roll…these last few weeks….producing a new video about one every 1.5 days.

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