Want to know the best Betty Hutton movies? How about the worst Betty Hutton movies? Curious about Betty Hutton box office grosses or which Betty Hutton movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Betty Hutton movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Betty Hutton (1921-2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedian, dancer and singer. From 1942 to 1952 she was one of the most popular actresses working. She appeared in 12 $100 million (adjusted gross) box office hits during that time frame. Quigley Publications listed her as a Top Box Office Star four times. Betty Hutton’s IMDb page shows 32 acting credits from 1938-1977 This page will rank 19 Betty Hutton movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her television appearances were not included in the rankings. This page comes from a request by TCM’s Top Billed.
Drivel Part: Gotta admit..we were not too aware of the movie career of Betty Hutton. Now that we are done with the page…we found two things pretty interesting: (1) Wow….the battle for her top ranked movie was the closest ever in our movie database…with her TOP THREE movies getting UMR scores of 69.47 (Miracle of Morgan’s Creek) , 69.28 (The Greatest Show On Earth) and 69.23 (Annie Get Your Gun). (2) Her average box office adjusted gross of $164.20 is the 9th best in our database. That puts her in some pretty incredible company. Our Top Ten UMR Average Gross Per Movie: 1st Harrison Ford, 2nd Barbra Streisand, 3rd Orlando Bloom, 4th Julie Andrews, 5th Judy Garland, 6th Will Smith, 7th Eddie Murphy, 8th Clark Gable, 9th Hutton & 10th Tom Cruise.
Betty Hutton 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 Betty Hutton movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Betty Hutton movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Betty Hutton movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Betty Hutton 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 how many Oscar® wins each Betty Hutton movie received.
- Sort Betty Hutton 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.
- Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Betty Hutton Table
- Twelve Betty Hutton movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 63.15% of her movies listed. The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Betty Hutton movie grossed $164.20 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 13 of Betty Hutton’s movies are rated as good movies…or 90.32% of her movies. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) is her highest rated movie while Let’s Face It (1943) is her lowest rated movie.
- Seven Betty Hutton movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 36.84% of her movies.
- Two Betty Hutton movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.52% of her movies.
- An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.00. 16 Betty Hutton movie scored higher that average….or 84.21% of her movies. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) got the the highest UMR Score while Spring Reunion (1957) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Betty Hutton
1. Elizabeth June Thornburg was born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1921.
2. Origin of “Hutton”. After moving to New York in the late 1930s, she began working with bandleader Vincent Lopez. Lopez consulted a numerologist to conceive a solid-sounding surname…so Betty Thornburg became Betty Hutton.
3. Betty Hutton was never nominated for an Oscar® but she did receive a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Actress in 1950’s Annie Get Your Gun.
4. Betty Hutton Quigley Publications Top North American Box Office Star rankings: 23rd in 1944, 12th in 1945, 15th in 1950 and 14th in 1952.
5. Betty Hutton was ranked as the 3rd biggest international star of 1952.…trailing only Bob Hope and Gregory Peck.
6. Because of her energetic style, Bob Hope referred to her as “A vitamin pill with legs”.
7. Betty Hutton was married four times and had three children.
8. Betty Hutton’ cumulative box office totals: Adjusted domestic box office: $3.11 billion. 15 Oscar® nominations all her movies in all categories. 3 Oscar® wins all her movies in all categories.
9. Betty Hutton’s 1942 song “Hit The Road To Dreamland” is heavily featured in 1997’s L.A. Confidential.
10. Check out Betty Hutton‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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To celebrate Betty Hutton’s 100th birthday this year (2021), I bought two of her greatest movies on BluRay (Annie Get Your Gun; and The Greatest Show on Earth)). I also watched The Stork Club for free, on cable TV.
BETTY was a pleasure in Annie Get Your Gun; much more fun to watch in the role than the hysterical, having-a-nervous-breakdown Judy Garland, judging from the Garland outtakes I’ve seen.
Whenever I’ve see Hutton in the past, I always end up depressed. How such an incredible ball of talent and energy could disappear from the Hollywood firmament as quickly and as totally as she did is amazingly sad to me
Each time I see Betty Hutton in a movie, I’m amazed all over again by her talent, her beauty, and her energy. She should’ve been a huge star to the end of her life; rather than dying alone, broke, and completely forgotten as she did in 2007. 😥 🌟
Wonderful. She does not get much attention. In my youth she was a huge star. One of my favourites.
Hey anonymous. Glad a Betty Hutton fan was able to find and enjoy this page. Appreciate the kind words and the visit.
STEVE
I always tend to think of you in relation to pictorials and Bruce as the stats supremo and whilst that is broadly appropriate there can of course be crossover. For example I liked El Commandant’s pretty coloured miniature of Betty above and I intend in the near future to go through some of your worldwide adjusted grosses videos. Anyhow sufficient unto the day and your Buck Jones and Maestro’s Tony Scott are next on my hit list.
Bob, the problem with my worldwide grosses videos on current stars is that when new films are released and are big hits the videos need updating and I can only update by deleting the video and upload a new one, losing all the views I had on the previous one. Which is why I now prefer rating classic movies. Bruce doesn’t have that problem he can update the stats on his charts.quite easily.
Hey Steve….the current Word Press system makes it real easy to add in a movie. You are right You Tube can only maintain being accurate until their next movie comes out. So you end up with an “old video” pretty quickly.
STEVE
Nevertheless I’ll take what I can get from you and update where I can. PS My last post was also primarily for u.
STEVE
1 Probably only movie buffs like us would even think about Betty Hutton nowadays because her career at the top was relatively short and after appearing in one of the greatest blockbusters of the entire 1950s decade with my top 3 idol Jimmy Stewart and OUR mutual hero Chuck she quickly disappeared from the screen owing to a large extent I think to problems arising from her headstrong nature. Nevertheless when it was at its height her career was one of the strongest and just as I welcomed Bruce’s page on her I am now glad to see your video.
2 Great posters throughout with my difficult choices going to Red Hot and Blue. Let’s Face It, Dream Girl and Spring Reunion. The latter was Betty’s final film and illustrates her decline. Not only was it a low budget affair but although Betty’s is billed first on posters the lady who a few years earlier was billed above Astaire everywhere in Let’s Dance [the one where the 51 year old Fred is addressed as “young man”] got second billing to Dana Andrews on the actual screen and in cast lists – see IMDB – for Spring Reunion. Great stills of Fred and Betty, and her and Howard Keel and the splendid pose of Betty with Chuck and Cornel Wilde is one for framing.
3 I was pleased that my personal favourite Hutton film Somebody Loves Me was your No 11 – but Sailor Beware a Betty Hutton flick – c’mon! Anyhow Solid Top 5 with you and El Commandant agreeing on 3 of the 5. Annie Get Your Gun, your No 2 and Bruce’s No 3, almost caused a riot on this site some months ago with some of Bruce’s followers taking strong exception to Betty a Paramount star having the audacity to replace Judy Garland as Annie and in the process ‘usurping’ a part that the more strident Cogerson disciples thought should have gone to an MGM contract player. I can’t recall where the Maestro stood in the dispute – possibly sat on the fence- but yours truly backed Betty and now value your profile of her at 9.4/10. Super fun.
POSTSCRIPT: As a Brit it may interest you to know that last night I watched a TV documentary about the “best places to live in the United Kingdom” and pleasingly to me a poll conducted by the programme suggested that in all the United Kingdom my Belfast, despite past security problems, was the “happiest” city in the entire United Kingdom with its citizens feeling the highest level of well-being. Certainly if I had been polled and asked for reasons I would have had to admit that a lot of my enjoyment came from movies in general and in particular from involvement with sources such as your work and Bruce’s site despite the latter’s slavish devotion to Myrna Loy!
Thanks Bob, appreciate the comment, rating, review and info. You must be really happy living in the ‘happiest’ city in the UK and an avid movie fan too. We movie fans are a happy lot aren’t we? I know a few people who don’t much care for movies, they tend to be a little too serious and always complaining about something.
Betty only made a few movies and to make it a top 20 video I decided to include all the feature length films she has appeared in including her bit role in the Martin & Lewis comedy – Sailor Beware – in which she played the part of Hetty Button.
I’m surprised Bruce hasn’t added a picture of box office queen Myrna Loy on the site’s title banner at the top of each page alongside Grant and Willis. [wink] I think he has Anna Kendrick on there, is that Kendrick? I don’t see Judd Nelson on there.. Bruce? [cue Bruce growling] 😉
STEVE
I’m just thankful that El Commandant wrongfully gave Angela Lansbury the credit for playing Delilah and not Myrna Loy as I read somewhere that Myrna visited the set of Samson and D while they were filming and I was half-expecting her to get credit for its grosses along with everyone’s else for being an inspiration influence. Maybe after so many movies with a softie like William Powell she wanted to see a he-man such as Vic in action. However Vic was reportedly a great ladies man so maybe there was romance in the air!
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What always puzzled me about that film is that Samson was lusting after Angela Lansbury and not her hotter sexier sister, Hedy Lamarr.
Has Bruce second-guessed the Bible then?
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek at #1, of course. As it should be.
Hey Eric….glad you are happy with our #1 rated movie…..it was a close contest…but Miracle of Morgan’s Creek got the win…thanks for the comment and the visit.