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Jack Carson (1910-1963) was a Canadian-born actor. Carson was a popular supporting actor from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. His IMDb page shows 131 acting credits from 1937 to 1962. This page will rank Jack Carson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition. Many of his early British and his latter low budget movies did not make the rankings.
Jack Carson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Jack Carson 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.
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- Sort Jack Carson 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.
Jack Carson Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Check out Jack Carson’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time
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2 Jack Carson films that are favorites of mine are Red Garters and The Good Humor Man.
I’m ashamed to say I’ve seen every one of the pictures on the list except Mr. Universe, 64 out of 65.
Jack Carson, the 1940’s version of Jack Oakie was never on the Oracle of Bacon Top 1000. These are the actors on the 2020 list he appeared with.
36 ANTHONY QUINN Larceny, Inc. (1942)
36 ANTHONY QUINN Parole Fixer (1940)
53 JOHN SAXON A Star Is Born (1954)
107 MICKEY ROONEY King of the Roaring 20’s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
107 MICKEY ROONEY Magnificent Roughnecks (1956)
108 JAMES MASON A Star Is Born (1954)
126 HENRY FONDA The Male Animal (1942)
126 HENRY FONDA You Only Live Once (1937)
137 LAUREN BACALL Bright Leaf (1950)
207 JEFF COREY Bright Leaf (1950)
224 PAUL NEWMAN Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
224 PAUL NEWMAN Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
262 KEENAN WYNN King of the Roaring 20’s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
294 RICHARD BURTON The Bramble Bush (1960)
310 JACK LEMMON Phffft (1954)
413 JOSEPH COTTEN The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
532 DUB TAYLOR A Star Is Born (1954)
532 DUB TAYLOR Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
577 ROBERT STACK The Tarnished Angels (1957)
592 ANGIE DICKINSON The Bramble Bush (1960)
597 PAUL FIX The Saint in New York (1938)
634 JOAN COLLINS Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
768 EDWARD G. ROBINSON Larceny, Inc. (1942)
779 ELIZABETH TAYLOR Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
780 JOHN DEHNER Hollywood Canteen (1944)
784 BETTE DAVIS Hollywood Canteen (1944)
784 BETTE DAVIS Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
784 BETTE DAVIS The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
837 BRODERICK CRAWFORD Larceny, Inc. (1942)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Gentleman Jim (1942)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
860 MIKE MAZURKI Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
907 WALTER PIDGEON I Take This Woman (1940)
917 PIPER LAURIE Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1955)
Jack appeared with 34 Oscar winners.
ANTHONY QUINN Larceny, Inc. (1942)
ANTHONY QUINN Parole Fixer (1940)
BARRY FITZGERALD Bringing Up Baby (1938)
BETTE DAVIS Hollywood Canteen (1944)
BETTE DAVIS Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
BETTE DAVIS The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Larceny, Inc. (1942)
BURL IVES Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
CHARLES COBURN Princess O’Rourke (1943)
CHARLES COBURN Vivacious Lady (1938)
DEAN JAGGER Having Wonderful Time (1938)
DONALD CRISP BRIGHT LEAF (1950)
DOROTHY MALONE Hollywood Canteen (1944)
DOROTHY MALONE The Tarnished Angels (1957)
DOROTHY MALONE Two Guys from Texas (1948)
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
GARY COOPER Bright Leaf (1950)
GARY COOPER It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
GEORGE BURNS A Damsel in Distress (1937)
GIG YOUNG Navy Blues (1941)
GIG YOUNG The Male Animal (1942)
GINGER ROGERS 5th Ave Girl (1939)
GINGER ROGERS Carefree (1938)
GINGER ROGERS Having Wonderful Time (1938)
GINGER ROGERS Lucky Partners (1940)
GINGER ROGERS Stage Door (1937)
GINGER ROGERS The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
GINGER ROGERS Vivacious Lady (1938)
HATTIE MCDANIEL CAREFREE (1938)
HATTIE MCDANIEL QUICK MONEY (1937)
HATTIE MCDANIEL THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS (1943)
HATTIE MCDANIEL THE MALE ANIMAL (1942)
HATTIE MCDANIEL VIVACIOUS LADY (1938)
HENRY FONDA The Male Animal (1942)
HENRY FONDA You Only Live Once (1937)
HUMPHREY BOGART A Star Is Born (1954)
HUMPHREY BOGART Hollywood Canteen (1944)
HUMPHREY BOGART Stand-In (1937)
HUMPHREY BOGART Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
JACK LEMMON Phffft (1954)
JAMES CAGNEY The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
JAMES CAGNEY The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
JAMES STEWART Destry Rides Again (1939)
JAMES STEWART Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
JAMES STEWART Vivacious Lady (1938)
JANE WYMAN Hollywood Canteen (1944)
JANE WYMAN It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
JANE WYMAN Larceny, Inc. (1942)
JANE WYMAN Make Your Own Bed (1944)
JANE WYMAN One More Tomorrow (1946)
JANE WYMAN Princess O’Rourke (1943)
JANE WYMAN The Doughgirls (1944)
JOAN CRAWFORD Hollywood Canteen (1944)
JOAN CRAWFORD It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
JOAN CRAWFORD Mildred Pierce (1945)
JOAN FONTAINE A Damsel in Distress (1937)
JOAN FONTAINE Maid’s Night Out (1938)
JOAN FONTAINE Music for Madame (1937)
JOANNE WOODWARD Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT KING OF THE ROARING 20’S: THE STORY OF ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN (1961)
JUDY HOLLIDAY Phffft (1954)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Bringing Up Baby (1938)
KATHARINE HEPBURN Stage Door (1937)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Princess O’Rourke (1943)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The Male Animal (1942)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
PATRICIA NEAL Bright Leaf (1950)
PATRICIA NEAL It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
PATRICIA NEAL John Loves Mary (1949)
PAUL NEWMAN Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
PAUL NEWMAN Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
RONALD COLMAN Lucky Partners (1940)
SPENCER TRACY I Take This Woman (1940)
THOMAS MITCHELL MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
I have seen 43 Jack Carson movies, including the top 17 movies.
The HIGHEST Rated movie I have seen is Mr. smith Goes to Washington.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Two Guys From Milwaukee.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Make Your Own Bed.
Favourite Jack Carson Movies:
Mildred Pierce
Stage Door
A Star is Born
Arsenic and Old Lace
Hollywood Canteen
Gentleman Jim
The Strawberry Blonde
Love Crazy
Vivacious Lady
Princess O’Rourke
Bringing Up Baby
Shine on Harvest Moon
Destry Rides Again
A Damsel in Distress
The Hard Way
Romance on the High Seas
Fifth Avenue Girl
My Dream is Yours
Larceny Inc
It’s a Great Feeling
The Tarnished Angels
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Blues in the Night
Other Jack Carson Movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Carefree
The Time, The Place and The Girl
Thank Your Lucky Stars
One More Tomorrow
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Two Guys From Texas
The Doughgirls
Navy Blues
The Male Animal
April Showers
Having Wonderful Time
John Loves Mary
Rally Round the Flag, Boys
Wings For the Eagle
Lucky Partners
Bright Leaf
The Saint in New York
Make Your Own Bed
Well done Work Horse for giving us this new page on Jack. Once again it is very useful to the stats collector and buff like me to be acquainted with the box office performance of one of the lesser stars of Hollywood’s golden years who was nonetheless historically important in providing fine support to the major players; and in that respect Jack could not only do comedy/romance but could play quite mean characters when required if I recall correctly.
So “Voted Up”; and here is what you’ve no doubt been waiting for so that you’ Flora/Steve and Dan can rub my nose in “have seen” totals once again: a list in no particular order of the Carson movies that I have watched. SPOILER MA: I might not have viewed as many titles as the Cogerson crowd but if a count was made of all my Jack/Doris repeat viewings your boy would probably come tops overall mother dear!
1/Carefree – hard to be when there are Hirschhorn reviews kicking around a site!
2/Mr Smith Goes to Washington
3/Destry Ride Again – Jimmy getting started Out West; Bend of the River/Far Country etc still more than a decade away.
4/Mildred Pierce-arguably my Joan’s finest hour
5/Mr Universe- ah nostalgia!
6/Bright Leaf
7/Strawberry Blonde – “Biff Grimes would waltz with the strawberry blonde and the band played on.”
8/A Star is Born
9/The Tarnished Angels
10/The Tattered Dress – I travelled miles to see Jeff in this one.
11/The Bramble Bush – Burton on the cusp of mega-stardom
12/Rally Round the Flag Boys
13/Ain’t Misbehavin. The ones of Doris and the delectable Deanna aside I detested musicals in those days and went to this just because of Rory. WH’s 53% correctly sums it up.
14/It’s a Great Feeling – but see my comments at 1/ above.
15/My Dream is Yours. I sincerely hope not: I don’t want to dream about Myrna!
16/Romance on the High Seas/It’s Magic
“You sigh, the song begins
You speak, and I hear violins- It’s magic!
The stars desert the skies
And rush to nestle in your eyes-It’s magic!
I always think fondly of Jack because he was one of the very first movie stars that I can recall ever seeing which was in 1951’s comedy Mr Universe covered above.
However I was only 10 at the time and I took seriously all his comic antics; and indeed one scene [which I think involves him seeming to turn into a block of ice] actually upset my young mind.
As I grew into my teens I did of course understand that Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis and Norman Wisdom were all supposed to be funny; it’s just that I didn’t find them so though I was mildly fond of Bud Abbott’s dry humour and liked Dino Paul Crocitti Martini’s persona and his fine singing voice.
[Useless and irrelevant trivia: when serving in the British Royal Air Force I was friends with a guy called Alan Abbott and of course everyone nicknamed him Bud and naturally you had the occasional wit who thought it hilarious to address me as Lou!]
Anyway back to Jack and another reason I still think nostalgically of him is that as The Work Horse records faithfully in his co-star links column above, Carson made several films with my Doris reruns of which I endlessly watched in the early 1950s including her debut movie Romance on the High Seas [aka It’s Magic].
Doris’ beautiful clear singing of It’s Magic from the film is still after all these years one of the prides and joys of my personal music collection. NOTE: As it was early days Jack actually got billed before the young Doris in My Dream is Yours.
Useful column that co-star links one when WH is not clowning-around in it by for example plastering Willis’ name all over the place as a Split co-star; or giving us the order of billing that he does for Love Crazy above. The Thin Woman billed before The Thin Man? – as John McEnroe would say Bruce “C’mon man! You CANNOT be serious!”
[Though I think I’ll forgive you WH on this occasion as you have given Rory and his obscure B musical Ain’t Misbehavin a plug above and naturally its box-office gross interested me and in fact at $50 million adjusted is quite respectable for a Rory B film of those times].