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. Hi

    Minnelli was one of the best directors around. He had a real knack for musicals, clearly his Broadway training played a big part. He made so many great movies, its hard to pick the best. Although American in Paris I wouldn’t be a big fan of. I loved Meet Me In St.Louis and GiGi. Maurice Chevalier was just so good. Of his non musical films, The Bad and the Beautiful was his best. I can’t believe that Kirk Douglas is 100 this December. Along with Olivier De Havilland, they’ve reached their century. Although when you reach 100, where do you go?
    I recently watched Brigadoon, although it didn’t get great praise, I always thought it was one of his best. He definitely had great chemistry with people like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I suppose he was just drawn to talent. And of course, Judy Garland. His daughter Liza, I always thought was fantastic. It’s a pity her movie career didn’t take off in the way it might have.
    But to be the daughter of 2 incredible talents must be strange. And yet Liza has carved out her own career in her own right.
    There was a documentary about the making of New York New York, where Minnelli was on set talking with Martin Scorsese, you could see that he held Minnelli in such awe.

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    1. Hey Chris.
      1. We you direct not one but two movies to a Best Picture Oscar win….then really accomplished something.
      2. I agree with you about Maurice Chevalier in Gigi….he was my favorite part of that movie.
      3. I hide my face in shame….but I have not seen Meet Me In St. Louis….need to find that movie and watch it.
      4. When we reached 100…..we try and reach Robin Williams age in Bicentennial Man…lol.
      5. I also just watched Brigadoon….it has it’s moments….though the final act seemed out of place with the rest of the movie.
      6. I bet when Liza gets asked about her famous parents…..that 80% or more of the questions are about Judy Garland rather than her father.
      7. New York, New York is an underrated classic…..it makes a great double feature with name your favorite Judy Garland movie.
      As always….thanks for the comment and the visit. One question…..looking at the request board…I do not see anymore requests from you….did I get all the ones you want or did I forget to add them to the list?

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  2. I could see if you saw it when you were younger it might not register with you. Some consider one of the best behind the scenes look at the movie business. Douglas is great….but I like the Walter Pidgeon character the best. Good to know you are a Kirk Douglas fan….he will be 100 in December….probably going to do something with our page for that day. Check your e-mail….you have some movie rental numbers there….over 600 this time.

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    1. I received the mail. Big thanks. I’ll send you my data for the period later in the day or tomorrow. You must know in France, the titles of foreign movies are changed. It’s not just a translation. It’s offen an another title totaly different. For exemple, Jaws becam in France “les dents de la mer” (Teeth of the sea) or It Happened One Night, released with the title : New-York-Miami.
      And, as a good french I am, I integrate the movies in my database with the french title.So, I have to find the originals title, this will take me a little time, given the number of films.

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      1. No rush Laurent. I actually knew that Jaws was Teeth of the Sea……thank you WoC…lol. But I did not know about It Happened One Night…being New York- Miami. I appreciate you translating the movie titles….but I am not doing it for you….so you shouldn’t do it for me…..that seems more fair to me. However you want to do it…your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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        1. It’s OK for me. Actually, I wanted to do it for me for a long time. So I have a good reason to do it.
          I have a question. In your file, some movies are presents with $0, or nothing. Is it normal, or is it my exell version can’t read the data ?

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          1. Hey Laurent….most of those movies at the bottom of the spreadsheet are probably movies that got an Oscar nomination…..but I do not have box office information on. Sorry I forgot to delete those before sending the e-mail.

  3. Hey – I had no idea that he directed all the movies listed above. He did some good movies that I enjoyed. Thanks for this site as well. Keep up the good work. I enjoy the stats, etc. but I really like the personal information too – that is good to read. Thanks again.

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    1. Hey Bern 1960. He was a very busy man in the 1950s and 1960s. I am sure his success made he a much in demand director. Glad you liked all the stats….congrats on your Silver Medal.

      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. And for people who are new to the site;

    The “drivel part of the page” has always been there, but Wife o Cogerson named it.

    It is the “Here is why I did the page, here is what happened to it”

    The Robert Montgomery page was SUPPOSED TO HAVE” the drival be about me requesting the page, that Robert And Elizabeth are my favourite father and daughter team in terms of a family without a bunch of siblings in the business (ie: Fonda family or Barrymore family), and that I do not understand how or why anyone could be a fan of Bewitched and NOT see automatically that Robert And Elizabeth were father and daughter.

    Yes there is a Fonda look.
    There is a Barrymore look.
    There is a Houston look.

    BUT THERE IS ALSO A MONTGOMERY LOOK.

    AND FROM NOW ON, NOBODY WILL EVER GET ROBERT TAYLOR AND ROBERT MONTGOMERY MIXED UP AGAIN.

    Yes, indeed.

    The name Robert is a very popular name in the business.

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    1. Instead, the drival part of the page on Bob M’s page ended up being about how we almost lost this entire website when a Chinese spam scroll took over.
      For people who have never read this site until AFTER THE ROBERT MONTGOMERY PAGE WAS PUBLISHED, THER EWAS A POSSIBILITY THAT THERE WOULD NEVER BE ANOTHER NEW PAGE OR UPDATED PAGE AGAIN AND THAT SEVERAL YEARS OF LOVE WOULD BE OVER.

      IT IS BECAUSE WIFE OF COGERSON IS A COMPUTER EXPERT THAT IT WAS SAVED.

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    2. Seems the pages are getting section names….we have “key word section”, the “this is who the subject is section” the “drivel section” the “big monster table section” and now the “collateral damage section”….plus the percentage section was named…..can’t remember it…..it was from Bob…I will have to figure that name out again.

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  5. I’ve seen oly 3 movies of Minneli ! Ouch ! In fact I’m not musical movies’s fan (like french people), and actually I’m not drama movie’s fan too. So… In France, critics loves the director, but the public not. He knew only one big success at the box office, An American in Paris, of course. He knew 5 little box office success : Gigi, Father of the Bride, Madame Bovary Ziegfeld follies and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Thats all.

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    1. Well, you won’t be on the podium, but you know that is okay.

      What are the three films you have seen?

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    2. Hey Laurent….thanks for stopping by and sharing your tally count.

      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.

      Only 5 successes for him in France. Very interesting. I had noticed that Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was way more successful overseas than here in the States. I will e-mail you the 1927 stats tomorrow morning.

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      1. Flora, I’ve seen Father of the Bride, The Bad and The beautiful and Two week in Another Town. I liked the first only.

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        1. Hey Laurent….Father of the Bride is a good comedy. Surprised you did not like The Bad And The Beautiful……being a movie buff….that would seem like a movie perfect for you. So Kirk Douglas is responsible for 2 of the 3. Does that mean you are a Douglas fan?

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          1. Yes I’m a Kirk Douglas’s fan. I’ve seen Bad and Beautiful long time ago. May be I was too young to appreciated the movie at it’s true value. I would have to look at it again.

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