Want to know the best Jane Wyman movies? How about the worst Jane Wyman movies? Curious about Jane Wyman box office grosses or which Jane Wyman movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Jane Wyman movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Jane Wyman (1917-2007) was an Oscar® winning American actress. She was also known as a singer, dancer and philanthropist. Her career spanned seven decades! Jane Wyman’s IMDb page shows 111 acting credits from 1932-1993. This page will rank 62 Jane Wyman movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Three of her short films, 22 television roles and 24 uncredited roles were not included in the rankings. This Jane Wyman page was requested by Chris and Just me.
Jane Wyman 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 Jane Wyman movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Jane Wyman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Jane Wyman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Jane Wyman 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 Jane Wyman movie received.
- Sort Jane Wyman movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (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 Jane Wyman Table
- Twenty-one Jane Wyman movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 33.87% of her movies listed. The Yearling (1946) was her biggest box office hit.
- An average Jane Wyman movie grosses $94.40 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 31 Jane Wyman movies are rated as good movies…or 50.00% of her movies. The Last Weekend (1945) is her highest rated movie while Magic Town (1947) is her lowest rated movie.
- Ten Jane Wyman movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 16.12% of her movies.
- Five Jane Wyman movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 8.06% of her movies.
- An average “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00. 35 Jane Wyman movie scored higher that average….or 56.45% of her movies. The Last Weekend (1945) got the the highest UMR Score while The Spy Ring (1938) got the lowest UMR Score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Jane Wyman
- Sarah Jane Mayfield was born in St Joseph, Missouri in 1917.
2. How Sarah Jane Mayfield became Jane Wyman. Jane was her middle…her first husband was Ernest Wyman……she used Jane as her first name and kept Wyman after her divorce from Ernest.
3. Jane Wyman tried, unsuccessfully, to break into films as a child actress but achieved some recognition later for her singing on the radio.
4. After appearing in over 20 uncredited roles in the mid 1930s, Jane Wyman signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1936. This lead to credited roles, which lead to better roles which finally lead her to movie stardom.
5. Jane Wyman was nominated for 4 Oscars®. She won the Best Actress Oscar for 1948’s Johnny Belinda.
6. When comparing Jane Wyman’s Oscar® winning performance to other Best Actress winning performances….her movie is ranked as the 37th (out of 90 movies) best movie on our UMR Best Actress Oscar® page.
7. Jane Wyman held the record for the longest screen kiss for 47 years. She and Regis Toomey kissed in 1941’s You’re in the Army Now for 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
8. Jane Wyman was married five times. She had three children. All three of her children were with her 3rd husband, Ronald Reagan. She and Reagan were frequent co-stars on the big screen. Reagan of course found fame in politics.
9. Jane Wyman was one of the biggest stars of the 1940s. She appeared in 27 movies that grossed $2.97 BILLION…..that was good enough for 28th place on our Top Box Office Stars of the 1940s page.
10. Check out Jane Wyman‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Check Out Steve Lenman’s Top Ten Jane Wyman Movies You Tube Video
Still not enough Jane Wyman stats for you? How about some Wyman adjusted worldwide box office grosses?
- Hollywood Canteen (1944) $510,641,332.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Night and Day (1946) $429,360,621.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Crowd Roars (1938) $260,397,039.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Princess O’Rourke (1943) $255,298,539.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Cheyenne (1947) $208,699,415.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- One More Tomorrow (1946) $201,521,619.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Singing Marine (1937) $186,307,696.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Brother Rat (1938) $168,771,110.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Story of Will Rogers (1952) $117,561,363.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Magic Town (1947) $115,312,259.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Starlift (1951) $113,784,574.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Three Guys Named Mike (1951) $110,225,722.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Stage Fright (1950) $98,239,295.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Slim (1937) $87,165,392.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- My Love Came Back (1940) $79,085,722.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Glass Menagerie (1950) $76,047,920.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Honeymoon for Three (1941) $76,036,312.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) $49,781,650.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Smart Blonde (1937) $47,508,464.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Crime By Night (1944) $42,726,805.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Kid Nightingale (1939) $42,385,000.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- An Angel from Texas (1940) $32,658,171.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Private Detective (1939) $30,151,426.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- He Couldn’t Say No (1938) $27,680,000.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Public Wedding (1937) $24,486,152.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Mr. Dodd Takes The Air (1937) $15,836,152.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- The Body Disappears (1941) $11,337,676.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
- Torchy Blane.. Playing With Dynamite (1939) $7,506,963.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
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Actors who appeared in 13 or more films with Jane Wyman
24 Jack Mower
18 Jack Wise
17 Leo White
15 Stuart Holmes, Creighton Hale, Paul Panzer, Glen Cavender
14 Cliff Saum, John Ridgely
13 Tom Wilson
Hey Dan. She George Brent has an impressive amount of movies with costars with double digit movies with her. I do not really know any of the 10 by name, but I would probably recognize them by their face. Good information.
Cogerson
November 13, 2017 at 7:55 pm
Hey Bob…Wyman is on the list of pages to do…..which is really backing up…Wyman, Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Loretta Young and so many others…..we need to increase the amount of hours in a day to about 30….that would help…lol.
BOB
November 13, 2017 at 6:41 pm
HI BRUCE
Kind words from you indeed and certainly for me it would be fitting to have a Wyman stats page to complement Stevie’s excellent pictorial.
November 11, 2017 at 10:56 am
HI STEVE.
1 Interesting feedback as normal – much appreciated.
2 I can understand you being unsure of ANY photo of the young Wyman because when the 1950s arrived and her top stardom was just a few years old her appearance seemed to harden almost overnight and although she was still an attractive woman, she looked different to me from what she did in the 1940s in that the lovely sultry face was gone forever and she was more like somebody’s kind and good-looking aunt than like a sex symbol. Ironically in the 1935 Magnificent Obsession Irene Dunne played the role that Jane performed in the 1954 version and I thought that Dunne too developed a rather matronly look in her later films. Another coincidence just as 1954’s Magnificent Obsession is credited with making Hudson a star historians opine that the 1935 version made a star of the would be Cowboy of the Century.
3 However the new look certainly suited her roles of the widowed women who attracted the younger suitors played by Rock in both Magnificent Obsession and All that Heaven Allows, two of my all-time favourite flicks by the way. However today’s audiences would possibly associate those movies with Hudson rather than with Jane.
4 Her comments about The Great Communicator are interesting because in another article she claimed that Ronnie’s obsession with politics in his movie star days and long before he got to the White House was one of the main reasons for the breakup of their marriage though that is not to contradict her statement that Ronnie was a kindly man and certainly in that respect he did not on the face of it have a hard act in the White House to precede!
Cogerson
November 13, 2017 at 6:17 pm
Hey Bob and Steve….so am guessing Steve’s latest video is on Jane Wyman….another actress that has been sitting on my request list for a very long time. I will have to catch up on Steve’s latest videos after I catch up on the comments here….which hopefully will be some time later tonight. Good feedback between the two of you….both entertaining and educational…what more can you want from a comment.
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Bob and Steve….so it looks like I am running about 6 weeks behind Steve. I think our two pages work well together….the stats and the visuals. Years ago, Sunshine (now there is a name from the past) suggested doing a page together…maybe it is time to do something like that.