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Kim Hunter (1922-2002) was an Oscar® winning American actress. She played Stella Kowalski on stage and then won her Oscar® for playing Stella in 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Later in her career she played Zira in three Planet of the Apes movies. Her IMDb page shows 142 acting credits from 1943 to 2001. This page will rank Kim Hunter movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Kim Hunter Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Kim Hunter Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Kim Hunter
1. Janet Cole was born in Detriot, Michigan in 1922.
2. An agent for David O. Selznick saw her in a stage production of “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the Pasadena Playhouse and signed her to a seven-year contract. Selznick suggested she change her first name to “Kim” and a RKO secretary suggested the last name of “Hunter”.
3. Bette Davis accepted her Oscar® for her although the two had never met. Several years later the two actresses would co-star in “Storm Center.”. Hunter was in a play and could not make it to the ceremony.
4. Kim Hunter was one of 4 Best Supporting Actress Oscar® winners to have guest starred in Murder, She Wrote (1984). The others are Teresa Wright, Claire Trevor and Shirley Jones.
5. The movie line, “Stella! Hey, Stella!” from A Streetcar Named Desire, was voted as the #45 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100). She played Stella.
Check out Kim Hunter’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
aaah Kim Hunter will always be Zira the friendly and ‘humane’ chimpanzee to me, the original Planet of the Apes movies are huge favorites of mine, especially the first one.
Taylor (Charlton Heston) – “Zira, I’d like to kiss you goodbye.”
Zira (Kim Hunter) – “All right, but… you’re so damned ugly.”
I’ve seen just 5 of the 23 films on the chart. Favorites are the 3 Planet of the Apes films and A Matter of Life and Death. I’ve also seen A Streetcar Named Desire.
“Stellaaaaa!” Streetcar was almost as popular as Planet of the Apes in adjusted US grosses.
Nice work Bruce. Vote Up!
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Hey Steve…thanks for checking out our Kim Hunter page. George, who I work with, did not realize the “other girl” in Streetcar Named Desire was Dr. Zira in Planet of the Apes. Love when the website opens peoples eyes. We are tied with 5 as our tally count. Glad this comment did not get stuck. Thanks for the vote up and the visit. Good stuff.
COGERSON to BOB 7 JAN 2020 at 9.11PM
“For every point you have against ML….I have a point for ML”
INTERVIEW NOVEMBER 1980 AT ATP STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
INTERVIEWER
“Bjorn, you won both sets in the final and yet you and McEnroe scored exactly the same number of points.”
BORG
“Yes but I won more of the BIG points.”
NOTE Overall in their career John and Bjorn played 14 official tour professional matches and ended up dead even at 7 each. The last time they played was in a televised exhibition match which John won.
agree to disagree
HEY TEACH! – I thought we had agreed to bury the hatchet on this one.
I notice you say pistols in plural:
“Some wear their guns back to front. Some like them strapped to their sides. Some prefer two guns and other choose just one. The way I’m showing you is as good as any and better than most. One of anything is good enough if you know how to use it properly.” [Laddie teaching Little Joey how to shoot in 1953’s Shane].
MARIAN: “We’d be better without any guns in the valley including yours Shane.”
SHANE: “A gun’s just a tool Marian – as good or bad as the man who’s using it.”
Hey Bob…funny stuff.
Hey Bob…..good solid points…as we close the book on the Loy argument….again……lol. Not thinking a realistic formula will ever exist…as there will always be things people will disagree about. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE
As you say we have closed the book on The Thin Woman argument. Since coming across your site half a dozen years or so ago I have enjoyed many hours day in, day out via for example (1) the widely diverse general factual information you provide (2) the comprehensive and consistent stats tables you impart (3) analyzing those stats (4) transferring the stats to my own databases (5) learning curves on very modern thespians who are unknown/not well known to me and (6) friendly debates such as the Loy one.
I think those debates are healthy as they show that we are thinking about things and not just sucking up and imparting ‘dry’ stats to people like Steve; and the debates are informative because we learn new things from each other’s arguments as it is rarely that any one of us -with the exception of Joel of course – has the entirely definitive view and all the knowledge on any subject.
The closure of the Loy debates brought with it a happy coincidence for me. I have just watched a rerun of a feature length episode of the Hercule Poirot television series called Dumb Witness in which Hercule is able to solve the murder with only the aid of a little dog who looks remarkably like Asta Charles, both being fox terriers! It compounds the coincidence that the dog is called BOB! As my daughter often says “You couldn’t make it up if you tried!”
POIROT EPSSODE 4, SERIES 6, 31 OCT 1996: IMDB EXTRACTION
Aunt Emily is almost killed in a freak accident involving her pet fox terrier Bob as an unwitting participant. She confides to Poirot that she suspects a family member of trying to kill her to gain part of her estate. Despite precautions, she dies abruptly under questionable circumstances Suspecting foul play, Poirot looks to his wits as well as to Bob the dog, who remains a silent witness to murder.
5/It is true that people do refer to Powell/Loy pictures [and indeed I sometimes say Powell/Loy/Asta movies!] but William had the title role in the Nick Charles movies: HE was The Thin Man. Nora was his foil in the way that Dr Watson was merely Holmes’ ‘sidekick’. Indeed it could be argued that Nora and Watson were in reality just ‘props’.
6/You have pointed out that Melvyn Douglas attested that before Gable and Tracy became MGM’s top stars the pecking order at that studio was: (1) Norma Shearer (2) Joan Crawford (3) Clark Gable (4) Jean Harlow (5) William Powell (6) Robert Montgomery (7) Myrna Loy. Myrna’s position among such a high-powered bunch was commendable; but it is clear that MGM considered that she was far from being their top box office draw.
7/However to me it is really just comes down to common sense in the end. In her heyday The Thin Woman was in 7 films with Gable and 2 with Al Leach, 14 with Powell and later the likes of Doris Day, Clifton Webb, Paul Newman and Burt Reynolds and Charlton Heston carried her movies. [I don’t count an earlier Archie one when he wasn’t a star].
Webb was a bit lightweight, but the others listed there were immense box office draws at their peak and therefore must have contributed considerably to the grosses of the films concerned. Accordingly Loy can’t claim all [if any of] the credit for the box office success of the films concerned; so therefore I would find it difficult to be dogmatic that on the strength of so many movies with other big stars SHE was the greatest box office female of all time.
INTERVIEWER:
“Mr Tracy you have partnered Miss Hepburn many times but have always insisted upon top billing. Could you not let her name be top on even just one occasion. Ladies first you know!”
OLD CANTANKEROUS
“It’s a movie we’re talking about. Not a lifeboat, Chowderhead!”
All good pieces of information. I appreciate you putting it all together….BUT…you act like she was not the lead female role in the movie.
“In the late ‘30s, when MGM famously crowned Clark Gable “the King of Hollywood,” the press anointed her his queen, and nobody grumbled. She seemed just right for the part.”
“She was called ”the perfect wife.” Men-Must-Marry-Myrna Clubs were formed. Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed her as his favorite movie star. Another ardent fan, John Dillinger, broke cover to see her in ”Manhattan Melodrama” and was gunned down leaving the theater.”
“Her profile was the most requested in the 1930s by women to their plastic surgeons.”
Myna Loy was named to an assortment of Quigley lists in 8 different years. One year she is listed twice….she is listed by herself in 10th place….and 24th place as the Powell/Loy team,
In 1938….she was ranked as the 7th biggest box office draw…..your champion William Powell was ranked 25th.
Myrna Loy was so powerful and well known….that Hitler put her on his blacklist….a list of names that seriously threatened him and Germany.
I could go on….but I have a wedding to attend.
As I said in a previous comment….we will have to “agree to disagree”.
HI BRUCE: Interesting points and strong arguments. Similarly, my Deanna was Winston Churchill’s favourite actress and that of Anne Frank too. According to Wikipedia the success of Durbin’s films saved Universal from bankruptcy
Loy got certain parts at MGM only after Crawford had rejected them- in 1938’s Parnell co-starring Gable for example. Also Joan is an AFI Legend and Myrna is not.
Betty Grable who had numerous stand-alone hits virtually owned Quigley from 1941 until 1942. Her iconic pin-up image was recently named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential Photographs of All Time. She was included in the list of 100 Photographs That Changed the World by Life Magazine. 20th Century Fox was able to use the enormous profits from her 1940s films to finance costly ‘prestige’ projects. The U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 and 1947 listed her as the highest-salaried of ALL American women.
Conversely, we must question why Myrna was never given a competitive award, or even nominated for one, of any kind by ANY of the various award bodies over her long career.
But in themselves none of those considerations necessarily make any of the ladies we have named “the greatest box office actress of all time.” though Crawford or Grable may possibly have been close to it and certainly in my view deserve to be in the frame for consideration of entitlement to the accolade.
Indeed, unless (1) we can come up with a realistic formula that measures with reasonable accuracy the precise contribution that each star made/makes to the box office returns from his/her movies OR (2) some descendent of the Hirschhorn clan can be located to give a definitive ruling, no one will probably ever be sure about who was the biggest female at the classic era box office.
Accordingly [unless you woudl consider pistols at dawn!!] I accept your suggestion that WE agree to differ. However I have enjoyed debating the matter with someone like you who has a great knowledge of movies and the capacity for incisive analysis on the subject
For every point you have against ML….I have a point for ML…..since WoC made me get rid of my pistols…we will have to continue to agree to disagree. Good last paragraph…I feel the same way.
HEY TEACH! – I thought we had agreed to bury the hatchet on this one.
I notice you say pistols in plural:
“Some wear their guns back to front. Some like them strapped to their sides. Some prefer two guns and other choose just one. The way I’m showing you is as good as any and better than most. One of anything is good enough if you know how to use it properly.” [Laddie teaching Little Joey how to shoot in 1953’s Shane].
MARIAN: “We’d be better without any guns in the valley including yours Shane.”
SHANE: “A gun’s just a tool Marian – as good or bad as the man who’s using it.”