Want to know the best Ann Sheridan movies? How about the worst Ann Sheridan movies? Curious about Ann Sheridan box office grosses or which Ann Sheridan movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Ann Sheridan 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.
Ann Sheridan (1915-1967) was an American actress and singer. She worked regularly from 1934 to her death in 1967, first in film and later in television. Her IMDb page shows 97 acting credits from 1934-1967. This page will rank 50 Ann Sheridan movies from Best to Worst in seven different sortable columns of information. Uncredited roles, bit parts and short were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request from Elliott Bisnow.
Ann Sheridan 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 Ann Sheridan movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Ann Sheridan movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ann Sheridan movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Ann Sheridan 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 Ann Sheridan movie received.
- Sort Ann Sheridan movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Ann Sheridan Table
- Seventeen Ann Sheridan movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 33.33% of her movies listed. Kings Row (1942) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Ann Sheridan movie grosses $88.82 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 28 of Ann Sheridan movies are rated as good movies…or 54.90% of her movies. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) was her highest rated movie while She Loved A Fireman (1937) was her lowest rated movie.
- Five Ann Sheridan movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 9.80% of her movies.
- Zero Ann Sheridan movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of her movies.
- An “a good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 23 Ann Sheridan movies scored higher than that….or 45.09% of her movies. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) got the the highest UMR Movie Score while She Loved A Fireman (1937) got the lowest UMR Movie Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Ann Sheridan
1. Clara Lou “Ann” Sheridan was born in Denton, Texas in 1915
2. In 1934, Ann Sheridan won a beauty contest. That notoriety from that win got her into the movies. From 1934 to 1936 she appeared 23 movies for Paramount and Universal…..most were uncredited or bit roles.
3. While at Paramount Ann Sheridan was used as a body double (hands, legs, shoulders).
4. Stardom came her way when Warner Brothers decided to promote her as the “Oomph” girl. This was voted by a committee of 25 men as the female actor with the most “oomph” in America.
5. Ann Sheridan later became the inspiration for the brand of woman’s house-slippers called “Oomphies”
6. Ann Sheridan was married three times in her life but did not have any children.
7. Ann Sheridan got her part in one of her most successful movies, 1942’s Kings Row, after Ginger Rogers had turned down the part.
8. After making 1937’s San Quentin, in which they played brother and sister, Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart became friends and began referring to each other as “Sister Annie” and “Brother Bogie”.
9. In 1938 Ann Sheridan starred in Angels With Dirty Faces and in 1939 she starred in Angels Wash Their Faces. Despite the closeness of titles these two movies have nothing to do with each other than Sheridan starred in both. This caused mass confusion here in Cogersonville.
10. Check out Ann Sheridan’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Ann Sheridan is TCM’s Star of the Month for June. Her movies will be airing on Tuesday nights and part of Wednesday mornings
HI STEVE
Thanks for the feedback and for sharing with me and the results of your review of your own ratings.
Looking at those old posts I think that there is just one poster or still that I highlighted back then that wasn’t included in the ones that I have now listed as favourites. However I see that for some reason I sent you two copies of Part One and I either did not post you Part 2 or else The Work Horse’s spammers are holding it hostage somewhere.
Howeve lucky I kept a copy and will send it to you shortly.
TOP 13 POSTER SETS IN SHERIDAN VIDEO – FL=Foreign language poster.
1/Appointment in Honduras-vintage Charlie Bill in his heyday
2/Naughty but Nice – wow!
3/FL one for Good Sam
4/San Quentin
5/Take Me to Town
6/FL one for Unfaithful
7/first for Silver River-interesting comments by Ann about Flynn
8/Stelaaahhh!
9/FL one for Black Legion
10/Torrid Zone
11/They Drive by Night
12/FL one for Myrnas with Dirty Faces.
13/It All Came True.
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: It all Came True has great nostalgic significance for me in particular and for movie history generally. It was one of Bogie’s last 3 films [all made in 1940] that were released with him as a supporting star and before his catapulting to mega stardom in 1941 with High Sierra/The Wagons Roll at night and Maltese Falcon.
As your poster faithfully records Ann was the initial billed-alone-above-the-title star with Humph’s name in much smaller letters among the ‘also rans’ below the title. However years later I saw a re-run of it on TV and Bogie was given first billing on the print concerned. Sheridan though an important star at the time of its release was not a big enough one to have the protection of billing guarantees in her contract that Tracy and Gable for example had; so the studio could do what it like with the order of her name on its posters and prints.
Actually in my perception Bogie dominated the film even as an officially lesser light and within that context deserved his retrospective first billing. If I was playing about with the name of the film as you have wittily done with other ones in your previous post to me and at the same time was forging a future Dan-like link between the movie and the later coming of Joel’s 1983 book I would call the film It All Came False!
ah the second part of your review Bob, cheers. I thought you were keeping it short because your earlier review was still visible below.
Looking at the posters the naughty ‘oomph girl’ had first billing on a bunch of these films, I’m impressed.
Hollywood wasn’t sexist where billing order was concerned, young actresses were topping the bill as well as the expected ‘Hollywood Queens’ (glances at Bette and Joan), and ‘Box Office Queens’ (you know who). – Bob winces –
HI STEVE: Thanks for yourz further repley in which you make some interesting observations. Whilst billing related to status regardless of gender Hollywood has nevertheless gone through gender dominatted phases. For example in the 1930s the more prominent of the two genders were the women -some would say because of the “casting couch” and “pillow talk”; and the greatest of the female stars like Crawford/Garbo/Shearer/Katie Hep always got billed above men like Gable/Tracy/Al Leach/Bill Powell etc.
After GWTW Gable could write his own ticket and got it put into his contract that he was guaranteed top billling. He said at the time that he was “sick and tired” of being billed second to women who did not have HIS box office clout. Tracy also insisted upon such a contract because he didn’t want to be billed below ANYBODY male or female. As one film historian put it “And so there were no more Gable/Tracy pictures!”
In the forties with the likes of The Duke/Crosby/Hope/Cooper/Jimmy Stewart and Al Leach coming into their own the men almost completely dominated and it has been that way ever since with Liz Taylor and Doris Day possibly being the only females with the true star power of the old 1930s mega females.
Of the more modern stars Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep [with sandra Bullock to a lesser extent] arepossibly the only ones who have apprached the status that the 1930s Hollywood mega divas had and the males like Hanks/Cruise/Arnie/Stallone/Mr Gimme More/DiCaprio have held almost total sway despite many females like Jennifer Lawrence being over-hyped.
Bruce’s 50 Movie Stars book is historically brilliant in that it illustrated very graphically how the power of the 1930s type female diva has disappeared over the years both statistically and in actuality: just 10 females in all made his cut of 50 [ie in in 5] and of those 10 only 1 [Meryl Stree] is from the present era. See list in Part 2
CONTINUED FROM PART ONE
BRUCE’S TOP 50 STARS: THE 10 WOMEN INCLUDED
[In square brackets are Bruce’s ranking places for them in the 50]
1/Katie Hepburn [10th ]
2/Bette Davis [18th]
3/Liz Taylor [20th]
4/Judy Garland [21st]
5/Ginger Rogers [26th] – Fred is ranked 32nd but he made far fewer films than Ginger.
6/Meryl Streep [28th]
7/The Thin Woman [30th]***
8/Barbara Stanwyck [38th]
9/Joan Crawford [47th] -Hoorah!
10/Doris Day [50th]– Hoorah again!
***I understand that WH sleepwalks and did part of the list in his dreans where he fantasises heavily; hence The Thin Woman’s high ranking. However he must have woken up and returned to reality because he actually ranks Brando above Thins.
HI STEVE: The first 5 movies in which I saw Ann Sheridan were all released in the early 1950s and were the last 5 ones of any note in which she had the female lead: Steel Town/Just Across the Street/Appointment in Honduras/Take Me to Town and Come Next Spring. I found them all OK for me and especially liked Come Next Spring.
When I caught up with a number of her earlier films on television in later years I liked King’s Row but wasn’t fussed on most of the other ones especially Cooper’s Good Sam and Al Leach’s I was a Mail War Bride. Therefore to this day Come Next Spring remains my favourite Ann Sheridan movie.
I watched your Sheridan video back in June 2017 and my comments on it then are in the posts below. However as the old cliché goes “You can’t get too much of a good thing” and I have enjoyed my reacquaintance with the video and the listings below and in Part 2 satisfied me personally to the tune of 98%. Retrospectively – fine work.
STILLS: 9 this time -The total is creeping up! Here are my top 5 most atmospheric ones:
1/Ann showing us her “Bedroom Eyes” in Navy Blues
2/Ann with Bogie and Raft
3/Dodge City
4/Kings Row
5/Angels with Dirty Faces
HI STEVE: The first 5 movies in which I saw Ann Sheridan were all released in the early 1950s and were the last 5 ones of any note in which she had the female lead: Steel Town/Just Across the Street/Appointment in Honduras/Take Me to Town and Come Next Spring. I found them all OK for me and especially liked Come Next Spring.
When I caught up with a number of her earlier films on television in later years I liked King’s Row but wasn’t fussed on most of the other ones especially Cooper’s Good Sam and Al Leach’s I was a Mail War Bride. Therefore to this day Come Next Spring remains my favourite Ann Sheridan movie.
I watched your Sheridan video back in June 2017 and my comments on it then are in the posts below. However as the old cliché goes “You can’t get too much of a good thing” and I have enjoyed my reacquaintance with the video and the listings below and in Part 2 satisfied me personally to the tune of 98%. Retrospectively – fine work.
STILLS: The total is creeping up. Here are my top 5 most atmospheric ones:
1/Ann showing us her “Bedroom Eyes” in Navy Blues
2/Ann with Bogie and Raft
3/Doge City
4/Kings Row
5/Angels with Dirty Faces
Hi Bob thanks for re-reviewing my Ann Sheridan video, the generous rating and info is always appreciated. Glad you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
I’ve looked at our previous posts below. I’ll just add that my revised scores still show just one film scoring 10 out of 10 – Devils With Dirty Faces.
And four films scoring 9 out of 10 –
The Man Who Came to Lunch
Queens Row
They Drive by Day
Edge of Lightness
Ann Sheridan on Errol Flynn – “He was one of the wild characters of the world, but he had a strange, quiet side. He camouflaged himself completely. In all the years I knew him, I never really knew what lay underneath and I doubt if many people did.”
“I can whistle through my fingers, bulldog a steer, light a fire with two sticks, shoot a pistol with fair accuracy, set type, and teach school . . .”
Hello,
thanks for your comments on the gorgeous Ann Sheridan. Have you seen “Nora Prentiss?”
Anyway, I see you watched “Just Across the Street.” Where on earth did you find a copy? I’ve been trying to find it everywhere! If you could help me, I’d truly appreciate it.
Thanks,
A. K.