Want to know the best Lewis Stone movies? How about the worst Lewis Stone movies? Curious about Lewis Stone box office grosses or which Lewis Stone movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Lewis Stone movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Lewis Stone (1879-1953) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor. He is best remembered for his role as Judge Hardy in the Andy Hardy movie series. His IMDb page shows 152 acting credits from 1915 to 1953. This page will rank Lewis Stone 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.
Drivel part of page: While looking at some of the famous MGM Stable of Star photos, I kept seeing Lewis Stone. Eventually I decided to do an UMR page on him. I quickly realized Lewis Stone made a ton of movies. He was the 10th thespian to reach triple digits with regards to movies on their UMR table.
Lewis Stone Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Lewis Stone 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 by how many Oscar® nominations each Lewis Stone movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Lewis Stone movie won.
- Sort Lewis Stone 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.
Lewis Stone Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
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I have seen 85 of Lewis’s films; the highest ranked I haven’t seen is The Patriot, along with almost all the silent films.
Lewis Stone I believe had a lifetime contract with MGM which ended when he passed in 1953. I think Frank Morgan had one too till he passed in 1949. None of their name players had lifetime lifetime contracts, like Bobby Bonilla with the Mets (30 years and still counting). Robert Taylor worked the longest at MGM, 25 years.
Lewis never made the Oracle list since he passed 70 years ago (time goes fast). These are the actors on the 2022 list he appeared with.
70 ANTHONY QUINN Sworn Enemy (1936)
91 DEAN STOCKWELL Stars in My Crown (1950)
130 JAMES MASON The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble (1944)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary (1941)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Judge Hardy’s Children (1938)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Loews Christmas Greeting (The Hardy Family) (1939)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
202 MICKEY ROONEY Out West with the Hardys (1938)
202 MICKEY ROONEY The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
202 MICKEY ROONEY The Hardys Ride High (1939)
202 MICKEY ROONEY West Point of the Air (1935)
202 MICKEY ROONEY You’re Only Young Once (1937)
226 ANGELA LANSBURY State of the Union (1948)
226 ANGELA LANSBURY The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
328 KEENAN WYNN All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
328 KEENAN WYNN Angels in the Outfield (1951)
328 KEENAN WYNN It’s a Big Country (1951)
413 MEL FERRER Scaramouche (1952)
493 LIONEL STANDER The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
596 KATHLEEN FREEMAN Talk About a Stranger (1952)
596 KATHLEEN FREEMAN The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
684 RAY MILLAND Night Into Morning (1951)
684 RAY MILLAND Passion Flower (1930)
735 JAMES WHITMORE All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
735 JAMES WHITMORE Angels in the Outfield (1951)
735 JAMES WHITMORE It’s a Big Country (1951)
775 AKIM TAMIROFF China Seas (1935)
775 AKIM TAMIROFF Queen Christina (1933)
852 KEYE LUKE Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble (1944)
869 JOHN DEHNER Scaramouche (1952)
881 PETER LAWFORD Just This Once (1952)
Lewis appeared with 29 Oscar winners, he was 49 when they started.
ANTHONY QUINN Sworn Enemy (1936)
BETTE DAVIS Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
BING CROSBY Angels in the Outfield (1951)
CHARLES COBURN Yellow Jack (1938)
CLARK GABLE Any Number Can Play (1949)
CLARK GABLE China Seas (1935)
CLARK GABLE Key to the City (1950)
CLARK GABLE The Secret Six (1931)
DONALD CRISP VANESSA: HER LOVE STORY (1935)
DONNA REED The Bugle Sounds (1942)
DONNA REED The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
EMIL JANNINGS THE PATRIOT (1928)
ETHEL BARRYMORE It’s a Big Country (1951)
FREDRIC MARCH It’s a Big Country (1951)
GARY COOPER It’s a Big Country (1951)
HATTIE MCDANIEL CHINA SEAS (1935)
HELEN HAYES The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
HELEN HAYES The Son-Daughter (1932)
HELEN HAYES The White Sister (1933)
HELEN HAYES Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
JAMES STEWART Small Town Girl (1936)
JAMES STEWART The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
JANE DARWELL Three Wise Fools (1946)
JANET GAYNOR Small Town Girl (1936)
JOAN CRAWFORD Grand Hotel (1932)
JOAN CRAWFORD Letty Lynton (1932)
JOAN CRAWFORD The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
KATHARINE HEPBURN State of the Union (1948)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Bannerline (1951)
LIONEL BARRYMORE DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Grand Hotel (1932)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Looking Forward (1933)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Mata Hari (1931)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Public Hero #1 (1935)
LIONEL BARRYMORE The Girl from Missouri (1934)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Three Wise Fools (1946)
LIONEL BARRYMORE Treasure Island (1934)
LORETTA YOUNG Key to the City (1950)
LORETTA YOUNG The Unguarded Hour (1936)
MARY ASTOR Any Number Can Play (1949)
NORMA SHEARER The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
NORMA SHEARER Their Own Desire (1929)
PAUL LUKAS Strictly Dishonorable (1931)
RAY MILLAND Night Into Morning (1951)
RAY MILLAND Passion Flower (1930)
SPENCER TRACY State of the Union (1948)
THOMAS MITCHELL THREE WISE FOOLS (1946)
WALLACE BEERY China Seas (1935)
WALLACE BEERY Grand Hotel (1932)
WALLACE BEERY The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
WALLACE BEERY The Big House (1930)
WALLACE BEERY The Bugle Sounds (1942)
WALLACE BEERY The Lost World (1925)
WALLACE BEERY The Secret Six (1931)
WALLACE BEERY Treasure Island (1934)
WALLACE BEERY West Point of the Air (1935)
WALTER BRENNAN Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
WALTER BRENNAN Three Godfathers (1936)
WALTER BRENNAN West Point of the Air (1935)
WALTER BRENNAN You Can’t Buy Everything (1934)
WALTER HUSTON Night Court (1932)
WALTER HUSTON The Wet Parade (1932)
Hey Dan. Wow….85 of his movies…..that is only 75 more movies than me…..so it was close…lol. I imagine if the Oracle existed in the 1930s Lewis Stone would have a good ranking. His MGM contract lasted 29 years….covering the years 1924 to his death in 1953. Not surprisingly, Mickey Rooney is his most frequent Oracle co-star. 29 Oscar winning co-stars seems low….but about half of his movies were before the Oscars even existed. Good stuff.
Lewis Stone was the # 37 most connected actor of the 1920’s.
I started out writing out films I have seen in a book as I always do, and then I realized that this would take too much time as I have seen so many of his films. Therefore I just looked up on Letterboxd and discovered that I have seen 59 of his movies. As this is letterboxd, documentaries are included to be out of 160 films total.
Instead, I will just focus on favourites, not all films I have seen.
The HIGHEST rated of the 59 films I have seen is The Big House.
The highest rated film I have NOT seen is The Patriot.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is It’s a Big Country.
Favourites from the top 50 of his movies:
The Big House
David Copperfield
Grand Hotel
China Seas
Queen Christina
Love Finds Andy Hardy – my only favourite of the Andy Hardy series
Scaramouche
Treasure Island
Suzy
A Woman of affairs
Mata Hari
Romance
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Trial of Mary Dougan
Red-Headed Woman
Angels in the Outfield
The Girl From Missouri
The Secret 6
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Their Own Desire
The White Sister
As you can see, with the exception of the Andy Hardy series, most of Stone’s films are my favourites
Hey Flora….the awesomeness of Letterboxd.com. Tally counts: Dan with an incredible 85 Lewis Stone movies watched. You are at least close to his total compared to me. With 59 to a lowly 10 seen by me. I have seen 5 of your favorites….with Scaramouche being my favorite….I am thinking about the 1950s version versus his 1920s version. As for the Andy Hardy movies….I feel they are ok. Hope you had an awesome weekend. Good stuff as always.
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
Great Page.
I asked for him in a request a few years ago.
Finally you did it. Great Jo.
Just for fun. As always great news.
Hey Mike HoF2020….glad I was finally able to kick out a Lewis Stone. He has the third most movies of all the people that have UMR pages….1st is Ward Bond with 128 movies, then Samuel L. Jackson at 17 movies. Tons of movies from Mr. Stone. Good feedback.