Want to know the best June Allyson movies? How about the worst June Allyson movies? Curious about June Allyson box office grosses or which June Allyson movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which June Allyson 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.
June Allyson (1917-2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer. Allyson’s “girl next door” image was solidified during the 1940 and 1950s. She appeared in 35 of her 37 movies in those two decades. Her IMDb page shows 75 acting credits from 1937-2001. This page will rank 37 June Allyson movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Her 27 television roles, her 10 shorts and her one movie not released in North American theaters were not included on this page. This page comes from a request by Mike.
June Allyson Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
June Allyson 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.
- Column One is the name of the Allyson movie and the link for the trailer for that movie
- Sort June Allyson movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort June Allyson movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort June Allyson movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort June Allyson 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 June Allyson movie received.
- Sort June Allyson movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About June Allyson
1. Eleanor Geisman was born in the Bronx, New York City in 1917.
2. When June Allyson was eight years old, she was crushed by a falling tree limb while riding a bicycle. She wore a back brace for four years and taught herself to dance by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies.
3. The legend is that the choreographer of 1938’s Sing Out The News, gave her a job and a new name: Allyson, a family name, and June, for the month. The reality? Allyson has attributed the name creation to a stage director she met before 1938.
4. June Allyson gained fame for playing what MGM dubbed the “girl next door”. She was cast alongside Van Johnson, the quintessential “boy next door” many times. As the “sweetheart team,” Johnson and Allyson were to appear five movies together.
5. Along with her husband Dick Powell, June Allyson persuaded future President of the United States Ronald Reagan to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in 1962.
6. June Allyson was married 4 times and had two children. Both of her children….Pamela Powell and Dick Powell Jr. also became thespians.
7. June Allyson’s favorite modern actors were: Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, and Meg Ryan.
8. June Allyson was good friends with James Stewart and played his wife in three different films.
9. June Allyson’s nickname was “Junie”.
10. Check out June Allyson’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
Steve’s June Allyson You Tube video goes very well with this page.
Want more June Allyson stats? How about adjusted worldwide box office grosses on 24 of her movies?
- Thousands Cheer (1943) $484,894,313.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Three Musketeers (1948) $478,709,234.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Till The Clouds Roll By (1946) $450,044,008.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) $399,016,127.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Music For Millions (1944) $335,274,701.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Little Women (1949) $330,801,051.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Girl Crazy (1943) $310,658,574.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Two Sisters From Boston (1946) $297,974,136.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Secret Heart (1946) $260,501,938.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Words and Music (1948) $259,044,716.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) $223,952,998.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Best Foot Forward (1943) $222,758,087.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Bride Goes Wild (1948) $214,315,124.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- High Barbaree (1947) $194,798,778.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Executive Suite (1954) $192,610,250.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) $180,844,373.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Opposite Sex (1956) $124,020,768.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Too Young To Kiss (1951) $114,081,148.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) $109,515,184.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Battle Circus (1953) $103,188,393.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Meet The People (1944) $83,709,674.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Right Cross (1950) $67,037,500.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- The Girl in White (1952) $58,715,144.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
- Remains To Be Seen (1953) $41,021,967.00 in adjusted worldwide box office grosses
Love this. I had no idea she was such a big office draw. Did not think these numbers were available. Where did you get this data?
Hey Peggy…..thanks for the nice words about our Allyson page. Our box office numbers are mainly based on reported box office rentals from the MGM ledgers and yearly Variety reports from yesteryear. We have a calculation that helps create an adjusted gross…..and then we turn that number into an gross that shows what that means in today’s numbers. It is not an exact science…but feel our number gets pretty close to the actual numbers. Thanks for stopping by.
I have seen 19 June Allyson movies.
The highest rated film I have not seen is Two Sisters From Boston.
The lowest rated film I have seen is Battle Circus.
My favourite films are:
The Glenn Miller Story
Little Women
Strategic Air Command
Two Girls an a Sailor
Executive Suite
That title should read TWO Girls and a Sailor.
Hey Flora…..fixed that.
Hey Flora
1. Thanks for checking out our June Allyson page.
2. 19….destroys my total of 4.
3. I have seen The Stratton Story, The Glenn Miller Story, Executive Suite and Woman’s World.
4. I would say Woman’s World is my favorite June movie…..loved that movie….and what a cast…..not to say that Executive Suite does not have a stellar cast too.
5. I have been aware of Battle Circus for years….but when I attached the trailer….it was the first time I had seen any of that movie….it is pretty lowly ranked…so maybe I have not been missing anything.
6. I will have to check out Strategic Air Command….it is the only Stewart/Allyson movie that I have not seen.
Good feedback.
Lovely woman that made some lovely movies. Loved her with Van Johnson, James Stewart and David Niven.
Hey Candice….I agree with your comment. She had some awesome co-stars. Not sure how many people liked her and Niven’s My Man Godfrey….but glad you did. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Is this not a June Allyson website? I like, others, will surely get confused with all of this talk of Brando and Hirschorn. If you are so concerned about comments made about Brando and Russell put those concerns on their website. It takes away the focus on June Allyson and her movies.
Hey In The Shadows….wow…three comments in one day…..got be a record. Well…..the conversation does seem to have strayed away from June….but the hits are keeping June on the trending page….so in the long run……the conversation is keeping the spotlight on her. I guess I did not realize that Joel’s contributions were getting people so fired up. Keep the comments coming…..it is warmer in the sunlight…lol.
GOOD AFTERNOON IN THE SHADOWS 1 Always nice to hear from you but first perhaps the question you should be asking is why Mr Hirshhorn almost alone keeps being quoted on this site as if his opinions are the definitive ones whereas there are many critics more renowned and yet Mr Hirschhorn has in effect now been installed as the official voice of professional critics on this site
2 Dissenting professional opinions are rarely quoted if at all and in the present instance when David Shipman was mentioned it was within the context of his being contradicted by Mr Hirschhorn once again leaving the impression that Mr Hirschhorn’s was the opinion that counted. Why doe no counter opinions to Mr Hirschhorns ever have the final say?
3 Yet Mr Shipman is so highly regarded as a film journalist that he was the only person to whom Deanna Durbin would grant an interview after her retirement and I doubt if Hirschhorn was even considered by her and indeed it is doubtful if Miss Durbin had ever heard of Mr Hirschhorn.
4 The moderators of this site have every right to keep quoting Mr Hirschhorn for as long as they wish and there is no obligation on them to bring to the site the kind of balance that I’m talking about but I can’t see why there should be any objection to others trying to provide balance as long as they are not being abusive and my friend Marlon considers that his response about Mr Hirschhorn was nowhere as abusive as Mr Hirschhorn’s article about Marlon that was he thinks the first singled out for publication on this site. He also felt he had the right to defend himself and in that way bring l at least balance to the matter.
5. I should add that one of the site’s regulars some months ago provided the site with a selection of professional critical comments that contradicted Mr Hirschhorn’s opinion of Jane Russell. That post received no response. Anyway I have enjoyed our chat and have a good weekend and please note that I am typing this post in the dark in the hope that it will conjure up at least the illusion of a level playing field in my exchanges with you. Watch Mr Van Johnson’s 23 Paces to Baker Street and you’ll get the idea. “Afraid of the light Mr Evans?”
LIZ
DEAR IN THE SHADOWS
I have seen your exchanges with Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and have to agree with several of the comments they make. Certainly I find it very difficult to have faith is any professional critic who can’t grasp the value of Mr Brando’s massive contribution to the history of movies.
Also it is a fact that concerns about the lack of balance in continually quoting just Mr Hirschhorn’s opinions have been expressed before on this site and they do seem to have been ignored as Miss Taylor’s post says.
The appended copy material illustrates my point though I could find no trace of the dissenting opinions that are mentioned by Miss Russell’s Appreciation Society leaving the impression that they have been removed from the siten though my search has not been exhaustive.
Certainly mentioning Mr Shipman’s opinion of Miss Allyson cannot be construed as balance because again a critique has been selected that gives Mr Hirschhorn the final say as if to suggest that his is the definitive opinion YOURS MARTIN
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Joel Hirschhorn
August 10, 2017 at 11:56 pm
Jane Russell was a heavily promoted sex symbol in the 1940s. She gained notoriety as a result of her appearance in The Outlaw. Despite her looks, she seemed synthetic and manufactured. Only occasionally, in comedies, did glimpses of warmth and charm emerge.
My top Jane Russell 4 star performances would be 1948’s The Paleface, 1952’s Son of Paleface and 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Honorable mention to my 3 star Jane Russell performances: 1951’s His Kind of Woman, 1955’s The Tall Men and 1970’s Darker Than Amber
My thoughts are from my book….Rating The Movie Stars
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JANE RUSSELL APPRECIATION SOCIETY
August 18, 2017 at 4:26 pm
MR HIRSCHHORN
1 We have seen Mr. Cogerson’s reproduction of your rather unkind comments about our Jane and feel that you have fallen into the trap of many earlier critics of Robert Mitchum who were deceived by his casual style and failed to see the real clever acting going on underneath that superficially lazy persona. [“Robert Mitchum crept up on us” – Katie Hepburn]
2 Of course we realise that your professional background is not in the analysis of the movie trade but in nightclub entertaining and rock music and we therefore hope you find helpful the spread of opinions from veteran reviewers and movie sites that we have produced in a 2nd post about some of Jane’s performances.
3 Directly quoting the views of critics is generally speaking a new departure for this site – certainly WE have not noticed it on any consistent scale before – and now that Mr. Cogerson has commenced the practice it is hoped that to provide his viewers with a balanced insight he will quote the opinions of other critics as well as putting you on a pedestal.
4 It is really meaningless after all to give just one reviewer’s comments all the time as if they were a definitive take on a movie or a performer whereas the opinions voiced in the 2nd post indicate that there many others have a different opinion of Jane from yours
Hey Martin/Bob
1. The book Rating The Movie Stars written by Joel Hirschhorn is one of the main reasons we have this website. So I feel it is a good homage to him and his staff to quote some of his thoughts on stars.
2. The first thoughts of the creation of Hub Pages, Cogerson Movie Score and UltimateMovieRankings.
“Sometime in 2010, for the millionth time I was looking at Joel Hirschhorn’s book Rating The Movie Stars (1983) when I wondered had he updated his ratings lately? A quick internet check provided the sad news that Mr. Hirchhorn had passed away in 2005. About a month later, I thought I could update the ratings. I then came up with an idea to create a mathematical equation that would create a numerical score for each movie. The first thing I had to come up with were factors for the equation.”
3. If Mr. Shipman had been the main influence…..then he would be getting the honor of getting the first comment on the page.
4. Now the good news is…..that Joel and his team only did pages on 410 actors…so far…we have written pages on 238 of his subjects…..so only 172 to go.
Good stuff.
Hey Bob/Liz/Elizabeth
1. Without Joel Hirschhorn’s book Rating The Movie Stars book….we might not have this website. His book is the foundation in which this website was built. Back in the old days….Joel’s breakdowns would appear in the first paragraphs of the page. As the page has grown….it just seems easier to include the Joel thoughts as the first comment.
2. Basically Joel and his Consumer Reports team have long essays on the actor….I generally use the first paragraph….and list the movies they ranked as their best performances.
3. I know Joel is not the only film critic/historian out there…..but…..along with Roger Ebert and Danny Peary….they are the three that had the most influence on me. You will notice that Ebert and Peary are constanly referenced in the pages and the comments.
4. Of my top three….I had personal interactions with Ebert and Peary…..but never with Joel….actually….it was not until 2011…that I even realized a Joel Hirschhorn existed.
5. I will have to check out that Jane comment…..seems like that was one of the comments that has escaped me.
Good feedback as always.