Top Movie Stars of the 1950s

Who were the Top Movie Stars of the 1950s statistically?  This page will attempt to answer that question.  Our main source of information was our Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) pages that covered movie stars that made movies in the 1950s. So far we have box office grosses on 1,455 movies made between 1950 and 1959.  Granted this is far from all the movies made during that time frame….but it does cover most of the major movie releases in that decade.

We have included four lists of information.  List one looks at the Top 15 stars by adjusted domestic box office (the Top Star might surprise you).  List two looks at the Top 15 stars by highest average rating per movie according to critics and audiences.   List three looks at the Top 15 Stars by highest average UMR score per movie.  List four shows our entire table of all the stars we looked at while complying these lists.

Top 15 Adjusted Domestic Box Office Leaders 1950 – 1959

      • 1st James Stewart $4,101,500,000
        2nd Charlton Heston $3,943,800,000
        3rd William Holden  $3,677,700,000
        4th Rock Hudson  $3,516,000,000
        5th Dean Martin $3,452,000,000
        6th Jerry Lewis $3,448,000,000
        7th Burt Lancaster $3,349,500,000
        8th Frank Sinatra $3,331,800,000
        9th Tony Curtis $3,246,000,000
        10th John Wayne $3,051,400,000
        11th Deborah Kerr $3,034,000,000
        12th Elizabeth Taylor $2,826,000,000
        13th Marilyn Monroe $2,776,000,000
    •  14th Glenn Ford $2,720,000,000
    • 15th Susan Hayward $2,705,600,000

Top 15 Average Critic/Audience Rating Leaders 1950 – 1959 (min. 8 movies)

  • 1st Marlon Brando 77.40% critic and audience voting
  • 2nd Grace Kelly 77.20% critic and audience voting
  • 3rd James Stewart  75.80% critic and audience voting
  • 4th Charles Laughton  75.10% critic and audience voting
  • 5th Danny Kaye  74.30% critic and audience voting
  • 6th Audrey Hepburn  73.80% critic and audience voting
  • 7th Ingrid Bergman  73.50% critic and audience voting
  • 8th Marilyn Monroe  72.90% critic and audience voting
  • 9th Humphrey Bogart  72.10% critic and audience voting
  • 10th Cary Grant  71.40% critic and audience voting
  • 11th Henry Fonda  71.30% critic and audience voting
  • 12th Alec Guiness 71.00% critic and audience voting
  • 13th Fred Astaire  70.70% critic and audience voting
  • 14th William Holden  70.20% critic and audience voting
  • 15th Jack Lemmon  69.60% critic and audience voting

Top 15 Average UMR Score Per Movie 1950-1959 (minimum 8 movies)

  •      1st Marlon Brando
  • 2nd Grace Kelly
      3rd James Stewart
      4th Yul Brynner
      5th Danny Kaye
      6th Elizabeth Taylor
      7th Frank Sinatra
      8th Dean Martin
      9th William Holden
      10th Montgomery Clift
      11th Jerry Lewis
      12th Burt Lancaster
      13th Humphrey Bogart
      14th John Wayne
  •  15th Cary Grant

Cary Grant in 1959’s North by Northwest

Top Movie Stars 1950-1959 Main Table

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

  • Sort by actor or actress
  • Sort by movies made between 1950 and 1959
  • Sort by total adjusted domestic box office average by movie
  • Sort by total adjusted domestic box office from 1950 to 1959
  • Sort by total adjusted worldwide box office from 1950 to 1959 *Do not have worldwide totals for all films
  • Sort by average review percentage based on critic and audience voting
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each performers’ movies earned
Box Office RankThespianMoviesAdj. Domestic B.O.Adj. Worldwide B.OI.AVG Review %Oscar Noms / WinsAVG UMR Score
James Stewart22$4,100,800,000$4,101,500,00075.8 %031 / 0579.45
Charlton Heston21$3,943,800,000$7,124,800,00066.3 %030 / 1566.55
William Holden23$3,677,700,000$3,832,100,00070.2 %065 / 2175.44
Rock Hudson30$3,516,000,000$3,737,900,00065.9 %022 / 0366.53
Dean Martin20$3,452,000,000$3,764,200,00064.1 %011 / 0076.12
Jerry Lewis20$3,448,000,000$3,448,300,00061.6 %000 / 0075.21
Burt Lancaster21$3,349,500,000$3,767,700,00068.7 %038 / 1474.81
Frank Sinatra18$3,331,800,000$3,546,700,00067.1 %034 / 0976.26
Tony Curtis30$3,246,000,000$3,246,800,00065.9 %016 / 0364.49
John Wayne19$3,051,400,000$4,057,400,00065.0 %015 / 0373.74
Deborah Kerr20$3,034,000,000$4,320,500,00068.5 %056 / 1872.91
Harry Morgan28$2,962,400,000$3,034,300,00064.8 %018 / 0563.99
Agnes Moorehead28$2,847,600,000$3,404,700,00060.7 %011 / 0063.33
Elizabeth Taylor15$2,826,000,000$4,348,500,00066.7 %034 / 0776.55
Marilyn Monroe20$2,776,000,000$2,908,400,00072.9 %029 / 0772.53
Glenn Ford32$2,720,000,000$2,898,200,00064.5 %013 / 0163.03
Susan Hayward19$2,705,600,000$2,758,900,00062.1 %024 / 0371.37
Debra Paget15$2,703,000,000$4,467,400,00066.3 %011 / 0168.66
Doris Day22$2,684,000,000$3,476,300,00066.7 %020 / 0470.10
James Mason23$2,679,500,000$3,291,600,00069.4 %024 / 0368.16
Dean Jagger22$2,543,200,000$3,380,800,00067.4 %022 / 0264.52
Gregory Peck18$2,523,600,000$2,867,700,00067.5 %024 / 0572.80
Victor Mature28$2,506,000,000$3,174,300,00058.1 %008 / 0257.74
Kirk Douglas23$2,500,100,000$2,789,600,00068.8 %023 / 0867.75
Yul Brynner8$2,410,400,000$4,109,500,00069.4 %020 / 0778.83
Vincent Price15$2,404,500,000$4,172,500,00066.7 %007 / 0163.45
Ernest Borgnine21$2,402,400,000$2,535,200,00068.5 %025 / 1268.16
Lee Marvin22$2,373,800,000$2,644,400,00066.6 %012 / 0064.80
Alan Ladd23$2,359,800,000$2,754,800,00055.4 %007 / 0261.24
Grace Kelly11$2,338,600,000$2,717,900,00077.2 %028 / 0883.21
Robert Taylor23$2,320,700,000$4,354,800,00060.3 %016 / 0062.18
Thelma Ritter16$2,315,200,000$2,475,700,00072.8 %039 / 0974.86
Marlon Brando11$2,307,800,000$2,593,300,00077.4 %054 / 1887.67
Bing Crosby12$2,296,800,000$2,436,700,00063.1 %014 / 0372.43
Jeff Chandler34$2,281,400,000$2,279,700,00059.2 %003 / 0058.53
Jean Simmons21$2,278,500,000$2,933,000,00064.9 %018 / 0362.12
Gary Cooper19$2,268,600,000$2,561,200,00068.0 %015 / 0470.13
Richard Egan30$2,256,000,000$2,477,800,00060.9 %002 / 0060.37
Howard Keel19$2,247,700,000$3,498,800,00062.2 %018 / 0365.84
Robert Mitchum25$2,187,500,000$2,286,200,00061.3 %004 / 0161.11
Robert Wagner20$2,150,000,000$2,311,700,00059.3 %014 / 0365.12
Janet Leigh22$2,092,200,000$2,216,500,00062.7 %003 / 0062.84
Anne Baxter17$2,087,600,000$4,016,600,00066.8 %021 / 0761.66
Ava Gardner14$2,083,200,000$2,831,500,00062.5 %012 / 0170.67
Van Johnson29$2,079,300,000$2,827,100,00062.0 %013 / 0159.30
Humphrey Bogart15$2,076,000,000$2,225,500,00072.1 %020 / 0374.23
Richard Widmark26$2,051,400,000$2,200,800,00063.7 %009 / 0262.21
Gloria Grahame18$2,050,200,000$2,126,100,00068.8 %020 / 0965.77
Cary Grant13$2,013,700,000$2,398,200,00071.4 %014 / 0173.57
Yvonne De Carlo17$1,929,500,000$3,722,500,00059.9 %008 / 0157.14
Dorothy Malone22$1,927,200,000$2,039,400,00062.8 %005 / 0161.84
Lana Turner15$1,918,500,000$2,233,600,00056.0 %020 / 0562.88
Raymond Burr32$1,900,800,000$2,263,300,00060.3 %013 / 0656.33
Debbie Reynolds20$1,898,000,000$2,296,000,00064.7 %009 / 0065.15
June Allyson17$1,893,800,000$2,138,200,00060.9 %009 / 0163.29
Arthur Kennedy18$1,884,600,000$2,123,300,00070.4 %017 / 0068.01
Judith Anderson4$1,879,600,000$3,736,500,00076.8 %014 / 0185.54
Edmond O'Brien26$1,872,000,000$2,150,500,00060.8 %008 / 0259.71
Van Heflin18$1,861,200,000$2,059,400,00066.0 %008 / 0164.09
Natalie Wood19$1,839,200,000$2,136,800,00060.0 %012 / 0063.09
Edward G. Robinson13$1,827,800,000$3,590,200,00063.0 %007 / 0159.81
Mitzi Gaynor15$1,827,000,000$1,894,600,00060.9 %011 / 0364.98
Fred MacMurray20$1,806,000,000$1,852,800,00057.5 %008 / 0058.31
Eleanor Parker17$1,798,600,000$2,333,200,00065.8 %015 / 0168.34
Tyrone Power15$1,792,500,000$1,796,500,00061.5 %012 / 0167.58
Anthony Quinn27$1,782,000,000$1,974,600,00062.7 %015 / 0360.46
Virginia Mayo24$1,783,200,000$2,744,000,00055.0 %005 / 0057.39
Clark Gable14$1,766,800,000$2,595,900,00062.0 %004 / 0068.42
Dorothy McGuire13$1,734,200,000$1,881,000,00064.4 %012 / 0268.44
Jeffrey Hunter25$1,730,000,000$1,866,900,00063.3 %003 / 0060.38
Charles Bronson12$1,726,800,000$1,772,300,00064.5 %002 / 0068.56
Lee Van Cleef22$1,722,600,000$1,813,700,00063.7 %012 / 0461.98
Robert Ryan25$1,717,500,000$1,993,500,00067.7 %005 / 0062.22
Clifton Webb14$1,682,800,000$1,682,800,00064.0 %005 / 0367.84
Bob Hope14$1,647,800,000$1,653,500,00062.0 %002 / 0067.43
Kim Novak11$1,639,000,000$1,639,000,00069.0 %021 / 0373.54
Leo G. Carroll14$1,625,400,000$2,157,800,00073.5 %016 / 0570.05
Donna Reed17$1,611,600,000$1,770,100,00061.0 %013 / 0862.09
Montgomery Clift9$1,595,700,000$1,991,500,00067.2 %030 / 1475.02
Roger Ebert Top 100 Movies10$1,594,000,000$1,773,500,00091.8 %052 / 1988.62
David Niven14$1,589,000,000$1,737,600,00061.7 %019 / 0764.64
James Cagney14$1,569,400,000$1,842,000,00065.3 %013 / 0266.62
Billy Wilder9$1,566,900,000$1,566,500,00085.0 %033 / 0688.87
Jane Wyman15$1,564,500,000$1,706,500,00065.9 %006 / 0166.85
Rita Moreno15$1,561,500,000$1,829,900,00060.1 %012 / 0563.10
Dan Dailey17$1,553,800,000$1,737,000,00062.9 %008 / 0063.30
George Sanders22$1,548,800,000$2,143,000,00062.3 %019 / 0760.20
Charles Bickford11$1,542,200,000$1,663,600,00064.9 %010 / 0169.61
Jack Lemmon12$1,534,800,000$1,581,800,00069.6 %013 / 0269.14
Randolph Scott26$1,528,800,000$1,805,700,00061.1 %000 / 0057.80
Audie Murphy24$1,512,000,000$1,527,200,00063.3 %000 / 0058.83
Lee J. Cobb20$1,510,000,000$1,611,400,00065.7 %015 / 0962.70
Danny Kaye8$1,492,800,000$1,492,800,00074.3 %014 / 0077.30
Jane Russell15$1,486,500,000$1,486,900,00060.5 %001 / 0062.95
Donald O'Connor16$1,481,600,000$1,590,800,00065.6 %007 / 0164.19
Karl Malden16$1,451,200,000$1,696,600,00072.3 %031 / 1268.60
Royal Dano20$1,438,000,000$1,547,200,00068.8 %002 / 0062.61
Jack Palance17$1,428,000,000$1,669,800,00062.0 %013 / 0262.01
Arlene Dahl18$1,416,600,000$1,671,600,00059.1 %004 / 0059.93
Tab Hunter15$1,413,000,000$1,548,700,00059.4 %002 / 0059.14
William Demarest20$1,392,000,000$1,707,100,00056.7 %003 / 0057.58
Maureen O'Hara18$1,384,200,000$1,538,800,00061.6 %007 / 0261.03
Aldo Ray13$1,379,300,000$1,463,500,00067.7 %003 / 0065.90
Rhonda Fleming25$1,377,500,000$1,490,500,00059.6 %002 / 0056.29
Shirley MacLaine9$1,360,800,000$1,450,100,00069.3 %017 / 0571.54
Sal Mineo12$1,354,800,000$1,577,500,00067.5 %017 / 0367.00
Broderick Crawford13$1,336,400,000$1,426,100,00066.9 %008 / 0165.60
Gene Kelly15$1,330,500,000$2,087,000,00066.3 %019 / 0765.34
Gene Tierney13$1,309,100,000$1,403,700,00063.5 %005 / 0165.33
Barbara Stanwyck22$1,304,600,000$1,527,900,00064.1 %007 / 0159.34
Jack Albertson11$1,295,800,000$1,340,400,00063.8 %008 / 0165.12
Jeanne Crain14$1,295,000,000$1,347,900,00063.7 %002 / 0163.78
Victor McLaglen11$1,289,200,000$1,468,900,00062.7 %015 / 0763.33
Robert Wise18$1,287,000,000$1,650,100,00069.7 %015 / 0364.48
Cornel Wilde20$1,280,000,000$1,391,700,00059.2 %005 / 0255.26
Walter Pidgeon17$1,266,500,000$2,159,100,00062.1 %013 / 0561.20
Shelley Winters19$1,265,400,000$1,530,500,00068.4 %021 / 0963.48
Louis Jourdan12$1,257,600,000$1,452,900,00061.7 %016 / 1164.37
Walter Brennan15$1,249,500,000$1,649,000,00069.3 %004 / 0064.43
Audrey Hepburn12$1,245,600,000$1,572,700,00072.7 %033 / 0571.04
Jane Powell13$1,240,200,000$1,915,100,00058.4 %008 / 0161.38
Lauren Bacall10$1,239,000,000$1,446,400,00069.6 %005 / 0269.75
Mercedes McCambridge8$1,238,400,000$1,490,800,00073.4 %014 / 0172.63
Spencer Tracy12$1,230,000,000$1,636,300,00068.8 %014 / 0369.73
Paul Newman10$1,229,000,000$1,507,600,00063.6 %014 / 0267.55
Joan Fontaine14$1,219,400,000$1,570,600,00061.4 %006 / 0061.36
Rod Steiger11$1,217,700,000$1,270,200,00069.5 %019 / 1068.51
Joe E. Brown3$1,215,900,000$1,337,100,00082.8 %016 / 0693.58
Robert Morley16$1,212,800,000$1,465,700,00066.1 %013 / 0659.47
Elisha Cook Jr.14$1,195,600,000$1,364,300,00064.3 %007 / 0161.93
Gig Young19$1,191,300,000$1,387,800,00063.6 %006 / 0059.61
Mel Ferrer15$1,177,500,000$1,619,000,00062.4 %011 / 0160.91
Rod Taylor10$1,169,000,000$1,628,500,00065.6 %017 / 0365.32
José Ferrer12$1,160,400,000$1,306,400,00067.5 %016 / 0366.36
Fred Astaire9$1,123,200,000$1,768,200,00070.7 %014 / 0073.39
Cyd Charisse13$1,115,400,000$1,833,400,00069.7 %011 / 0065.89
Sidney Poitier13$1,101,100,000$1,133,300,00064.8 %018 / 0364.33
Brigitte Bardot23$1,094,800,000$1,342,200,00058.3 %000 / 0054.67
Errol Flynn17$1,084,600,000$1,512,100,00057.5 %000 / 0057.25
Richard Burton9$1,081,800,000$1,514,000,00062.6 %011 / 0263.64
Fredric March9$1,073,700,000$1,131,400,00067.3 %011 / 0169.63
Dan Duryea21$1,073,100,000$1,073,100,00063.2 %000 / 0056.96
Eva Gabor11$1,071,400,000$1,340,800,00057.9 %009 / 0961.14
Rita Hayworth8$1,069,600,000$1,069,900,00060.5 %013 / 0269.95
Burl Ives9$1,053,900,000$1,287,000,00073.0 %013 / 0270.82
Betty Hutton5$1,053,000,000$1,299,100,00067.0 %009 / 0373.6
Dana Andrews19$1,033,600,000$1,151,700,00059.7 %003 / 0056.82
Marjorie Main11$1,025,200,000$1,121,300,00065.5 %000 / 0064.88
Elsa Lanchester13$1,020,500,000$1,118,600,00063.3 %009 / 0062.32
Sterling Hayden20$1,012,000,000$1,083,900,00064.8 %005 / 0058.09
Leslie Caron11$995,500,000$1,779,700,00061.1 %027 / 1663.81
Esther Williams10$993,000,000$1,540,700,00058.5 %001 / 0063.16
Ray Milland18$991,800,000$1,144,900,00060.7 %001 / 0057.03
Betty Grable8$985,600,000$985,900,00064.4 %002 / 0066.36
Alec Guinness16$979,200,000$1,025,300,00071.0 %016 / 0861.43
Claire Trevor11$973,500,000$1,122,800,00054.1 %007 / 0157.99
Marlene Dietrich7$972,300,000$1,020,800,00074.3 %014 / 0570.19
Howard Hawks7$970,900,000$1,197,900,00078.0 %002 / 0076.04
Jennifer Jones10$970,000,000$1,004,000,00063.4 %012 / 0365.62
Peter Lorre10$957,000,000$1,015,500,00061.8 %003 / 0260.26
Dennis Hopper6$952,800,000$1,184,800,00070.9 %016 / 0171.09
Joel McCrea19$951,900,000$996,200,00059.3 %000 / 0055.64
Trevor Howard15$951,000,000$951,300,00063.7 %008 / 0556.55
Vera Miles13$950,300,000$1,166,200,00068.4 %000 / 0062.43
Jayne Mansfield10$951,000,000$1,037,400,00062.1 %001 / 0062.06
Henry Fonda8$940,800,000$1,033,400,00071.3 %007 / 0166.28
Farley Granger12$939,600,000$1,232,900,00065.0 %010 / 0061.32
James Dean3$930,300,000$1,187,700,00085.5 %017 / 0298.21
Gina Lollobrigida7$928,200,000$942,100,00061.7 %000 / 0066.18
Katharine Hepburn7$925,400,000$960,800,00076.3 %012 / 0177.78
Eva Marie Saint5$922,500,000$1,251,500,00076.1 %016 / 0880.65
Piper Laurie16$920,000,000$952,000,00061.2 %002 / 0057.64
Dean Jones15$916,500,000$1,250,500,00061.9 %002 / 0158.51
Ann Miller10$912,000,000$1,370,600,00059.5 %003 / 0062.18
Jack Warden8$912,000,000$1,013,000,00071.6 %015 / 0867.11
Dick Powell12$900,000,000$1,010,200,00061.4 %009 / 0661.25
Edward Arnold10$879,000,000$1,089,700,00064.2 %004 / 0162.01
Carroll Baker6$872,400,000$1,214,600,00068.9 %016 / 0270.97
Joan Crawford12$868,800,000$916,800,00066.7 %010 / 0063.27
Rosalind Russell5$863,500,000$924,100,00062.7 %012 / 0271.14
Xmas Movies4$852,000,000$852,100,00073.1 %003 / 0074.56
Kathryn Grayson8$846,400,000$1,249,100,00062.1 %004 / 0064.3
Mickey Rooney13$838,500,000$886,100,00057.9 %005 / 0156.56
William Dieterle10$828,000,000$828,400,00059.6 %000 / 0060.69
Ed Begley16$824,000,000$899,900,00068.3 %001 / 0059.6
Orson Welles13$819,000,000$819,500,00067.2 %001 / 0060.57
Red Skelton10$815,000,000$1,173,200,00058.9 %001 / 0060.38
Sophia Loren9$815,400,000$880,100,00054.7 %002 / 0059.60
Lloyd Bridges15$813,000,000$973,800,00062.2 %011 / 0557.63
Christopher Lee20$810,000,000$997,600,00067.5 %007 / 0258.04
Ginger Rogers13$790,400,000$803,500,00056.6 %002 / 0055.69
Joseph Cotten17$775,200,000$824,500,00059.0 %000 / 0054.35
William Powell4$772,800,000$848,200,00073.9 %004 / 0170.89
Troy Donahue10$771,000,000$875,400,00064.9 %002 / 0061.13
Ray Walston4$769,600,000$769,700,00061.1 %005 / 0170.57
Anne Bancroft14$768,600,000$778,900,00063.0 %000 / 0056.84
Patricia Neal11$761,200,000$911,200,00068.8 %000 / 0062.66
John Gielgud6$758,400,000$879,700,00067.0 %014 / 0663.22
Anthony Perkins10$750,000,000$893,700,00063.4 %009 / 0061.54
Lizabeth Scott10$747,000,000$747,000,00059.8 %000 / 0060.26
Paul Lukas3$739,800,000$873,500,00068.5 %003 / 0278.14
Charles Laughton8$735,200,000$883,400,00075.1 %010 / 0069.55
Joan Bennett8$735,200,000$924,100,00067.7 %003 / 0065.84
Donald Crisp8$733,600,000$825,400,00064.4 %000 / 0063.72
Sandra Dee8$728,800,000$926,800,00068.8 %002 / 0065.15
Peter Ustinov6$725,400,000$1,333,900,00069.7 %008 / 0065.99
James Garner6$723,600,000$1,058,100,00065.5 %010 / 0465.05
Mario Lanza7$707,000,000$1,477,300,00060.6 %005 / 0163.68
Ronald Reagan13$696,800,000$752,400,00055.2 %001 / 0053.94
Pat O'Brien9$690,300,000$805,500,00064.5 %006 / 0157.59
Ingrid Bergman9$684,000,000$837,400,00073.5 %003 / 0167.04
Dorothy Lamour2$683,200,000$683,200,00064.8 %005 / 0280.75
Eve Arden9$669,600,000$757,100,00064.4 %007 / 0061.73
Peter Finch17$664,700,000$1,026,800,00066.3 %008 / 0057.18
Dorothy Dandridge9$661,500,000$724,000,00063.8 %006 / 0161.67
Shirley Jones5$656,500,000$656,600,00064.7 %005 / 0265.68
Abbott & Costello11$651,200,000$686,300,00060.8 %000 / 0057.56
Judy Holliday6$648,000,000$648,000,00071.0 %008 / 0272.26
Celeste Holm4$642,800,000$838,800,00078.4 %017 / 0682.44
George Raft7$637,700,000$699,800,00064.2 %006 / 0159.03
Martin Balsam6$627,600,000$627,500,00075.9 %014 / 0872.00
Vic Morrow6$618,600,000$658,600,00069.7 %004 / 0067.02
Paul Henreid14$617,400,000$736,800,00053.0 %000 / 0051.72
Tony Randall5$611,000,000$610,800,00070.3 %005 / 0167.44
Elvis Presley4$604,400,000$604,200,00069.4 %000 / 0076.01
Brian Keith14$602,000,000$633,800,00060.8 %003 / 0055.02
Red Buttons3$600,000,000$797,600,00071.1 %010 / 0478.98
Fay Wray10$597,000,000$723,100,00063.5 %004 / 0059.07
Ben Johnson7$578,200,000$736,800,00071.3 %006 / 0162.05
Bette Davis10$578,000,000$782,600,00062.2 %016 / 0659.68
Olivia de Havilland6$577,200,000$617,100,00060.6 %006 / 0059.98
Joanne Woodward7$572,600,000$572,300,00065.3 %001 / 0164.9
Walter Matthau10$570,000,000$569,600,00066.9 %000 / 0060.27
Cliff Robertson6$567,600,000$567,800,00064.3 %006 / 0262.50
William Bendix12$558,000,000$571,000,00059.2 %004 / 0055.12
Ruth Hussey5$557,000,000$557,200,00061.3 %001 / 0066.28
Herbert Marshall12$544,800,000$545,000,00064.6 %001 / 0056.97
Ethel Barrymore9$535,500,000$651,800,00061.7 %003 / 0057.55
Linda Darnell13$534,300,000$534,000,00059.4 %001 / 0054.41
Angela Lansbury10$522,000,000$601,900,00064.2 %001 / 0058.04
Peter Lawford9$515,700,000$627,600,00061.9 %002 / 0057.89
Lucille Ball4$512,400,000$573,400,00065.0 %000 / 0068.39
Robert Cummings6$508,800,000$641,900,00063.4 %000 / 0062.41
Oscar Levant5$503,500,000$756,900,00070.7 %011 / 0670.74
Pat Boone4$492,000,000$492,000,00062.6 %004 / 0067.91
Joan Blondell7$486,500,000$577,800,00069.3 %002 / 0063.69
Basil Rathbone5$481,500,000$481,700,00077.1 %000 / 0070.51
Dean Stockwell6$475,800,000$628,700,00068.2 %000 / 0064.07
Merle Oberon5$469,000,000$554,300,00056.3 %002 / 0059.47
Lee Remick4$465,200,000$465,200,00080.9 %007 / 0074.90
Dennis Morgan9$459,900,000$594,500,00053.2 %000 / 0053.17
Scatman Crothers7$457,100,000$457,000,00063.1 %005 / 0160.11
Martin Landau3$455,700,000$633,500,00072.9 %004 / 0073.45
John Gavin6$447,000,000$447,200,00066.5 %003 / 0060.79
Andy Griffith3$445,500,000$445,600,00075.3 %000 / 0072.62
Charles Boyer7$438,200,000$468,000,00066.8 %001 / 0061.29
Myrna Loy4$436,000,000$435,900,00061.4 %001 / 0064.27
Harry Belafonte5$434,500,000$459,700,00067.6 %002 / 0064.43
John Saxon7$415,100,000$476,700,00062.5 %003 / 0058.97
Teresa Wright11$405,900,000$437,300,00058.1 %002 / 0052.64
Angie Dickinson5$396,500,000$607,300,00064.6 %000 / 0061.02
Judy Garland2$394,800,000$529,200,00079.5 %006 / 0087.43
Laurence Harvey11$391,600,000$474,600,00060.8 %007 / 0255.22
Thomas Mitchell6$391,200,000$397,400,00070.0 %007 / 0463.31
Zero Mostel6$388,200,000$455,500,00070.1 %002 / 0162.87
Ethel Merman2$385,800,000$385,700,00068.0 %005 / 0179.06
Annette Funicello1$377,400,000$377,400,00066.0 %000 / 0082.00
Barry Fitzgerald6$373,800,000$490,200,00065.0 %007 / 0261.35
Barbara Bel Geddes4$359,600,000$359,600,00084.3 %008 / 0174.26
Claude Rains6$352,200,000$445,100,00055.7 %000 / 0055.28
Jean Arthur1$345,100,000$487,700,00087.5 %006 / 0197.35
June Haver4$341,600,000$376,500,00058.9 %001 / 0061.21
Hedy Lamarr6$338,400,000$366,300,00053.3 %000 / 0053.20
Loretta Young6$337,800,000$387,400,00059.2 %000 / 0057.01
George C. Scott2$334,000,000$334,000,00078.5 %008 / 0085.08
Sean Connery3$321,300,000$321,200,00061.8 %000 / 0062.45
Greer Garson6$316,800,000$604,700,00064.0 %005 / 0158.35
Don Knotts1$312,300,000$312,300,00078.5 %000 / 0087.90
Tuesday Weld3$311,700,000$311,800,00059.4 %004 / 0063.95
Anna Magnani9$311,400,000$311,600,00068.4 %011 / 0359.21
Ann Sheridan8$311,200,000$359,600,00065.2 %000 / 0056.92
Robert Walker5$306,000,000$446,400,00061.7 %001 / 0057.11
Norman Lloyd7$303,800,000$504,500,00067.8 %003 / 0158.67
Vivien Leigh2$300,000,000$300,000,00083.0 %012 / 0487.45
Ida Lupino9$295,200,000$295,300,00067.4 %000 / 0056.56
Helen Hayes3$293,400,000$294,800,00063.0 %003 / 0163.47
Roger Moore5$291,000,000$569,400,00058.2 %003 / 0156.72
Gail Russell6$290,400,000$300,400,00058.0 %000 / 0054.77
Jessica Tandy3$288,900,000$289,000,00066.7 %000 / 0066.23
Harry Dean Stanton6$285,600,000$331,300,00064.2 %000 / 0056.90
Claudette Colbert8$284,800,000$309,500,00057.8 %000 / 0052.20
Wendy Hiller5$283,000,000$282,900,00068.3 %007 / 0263.83
Steve McQueen4$268,800,000$268,800,00052.3 %000 / 0054.62
Carol Lynley4$266,000,000$265,800,00057.8 %000 / 0057.72
Peter Sellers8$260,000,000$260,200,00068.3 %001 / 0057.27
Lena Horne2$259,600,000$405,500,00062.5 %001 / 0069.66
Laurence Olivier5$257,500,000$258,500,00068.9 %003 / 0061.57
Johnny Weissmuller13$256,100,000$256,600,00058.6 %000 / 0050.36
Rip Torn4$253,600,000$274,800,00069.4 %004 / 0063.71
Maureen O'Sullivan9$241,200,000$265,300,00062.4 %000 / 0053.26
Lee Grant3$240,000,000$239,900,00067.2 %004 / 0066.20
Marsha Hunt6$224,400,000$269,600,00057.6 %000 / 0053.14
Michael Redgrave16$214,400,000$318,200,00065.8 %001 / 0053.27
Robert Donat3$214,200,000$214,300,00072.0 %001 / 0064.27
Rex Harrison6$210,600,000$357,100,00059.8 %001 / 0053.83
Richard Crenna5$207,500,000$211,300,00056.0 %001 / 0053.41
Miriam Hopkins3$205,200,000$205,200,00068.6 %003 / 0062.80
Lionel Barrymore4$203,200,000$295,300,00049.4 %000 / 0051.07
Ruth Gordon3$202,200,000$246,600,00068.0 %002 / 0062.67

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