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Margaret O’Brien Movies

Want to know the best Margaret O’Brien movies?  How about the worst Margaret O’Brien movies?  Curious about Margaret O’Brien box office grosses or which Margaret O’Brien movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Margaret O’Brien movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Margaret O’Brien (1937-) is an American actress.   O’Brien became one of the most popular child stars in cinema history and was honored with a Juvenile Academy Award® as the outstanding child actress of 1944.  In her later career, she appeared on television, on stage, and in supporting film roles.  Her IMDb page shows over 77 acting credits since 1941.  This page will rank Margaret O’Brien 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.

1944’s Meet Me In St. Louis

Margaret O’Brien Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year Movie (Year) Rating S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1944 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
1943 Madame Curie (1943)
AA Best Picture Nom
1943 Jane Eyre (1943)
1949 Little Women (1949)
1945 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
1944 Music For Millions (1944)
1944 The Canterville Ghost (1944)
1943 Thousands Cheer (1943)
1946 Bad Bascomb (1946)
1943 Lost Angel (1943)
1946 Three Wise Fools (1946)
1942 Journey for Margaret (1942)
1947 The Unfinished Dance (1947)
1949 The Secret Garden (1949)
1948 Big City (1948)
1948 Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
1943 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
1960 Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
1981 Amy (1981)
2018 This Is Our Christmas (2018)
1949’s The Secret Garden

Margaret O’Brien 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 Margaret O’Brien movies by his co-stars
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  • Sort Margaret O’Brien 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 Margaret O’Brien movie received.
  • Sort Margaret O’Brien movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
2 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Judy Garland &
Directed by Vincent Minnelli
13.60 531.2 726.60 4 83 04 / 00 98.3
1 Madame Curie (1943)
AA Best Picture Nom
Greer Garson &
Walter Pidgeon
7.40 306.5 548.80 24 72 07 / 00 98.0
3 Jane Eyre (1943) Orson Welles &
Joan Fontaine
5.00 208.3 208.30 59 81 00 / 00 97.3
3 Little Women (1949) Elizabeth Taylor &
Janet Leigh
9.50 276.6 478.00 10 76 02 / 01 96.9
4 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) Edward G. Robinson &
Agnes Moorehead
8.30 306.4 306.40 32 75 00 / 00 95.9
5 Music For Millions (1944) June Allyson &
Jimmy Durante
7.60 295.0 484.50 28 71 01 / 00 95.1
8 The Canterville Ghost (1944) Charles Laughton &
Robert Young
5.60 219.9 219.90 60 71 00 / 00 95.0
6 Thousands Cheer (1943) Gene Kelly &
Lucille Ball
10.70 446.5 700.70 7 63 03 / 00 93.0
9 Bad Bascomb (1946) Wallace Beery 6.40 230.1 230.10 55 64 00 / 00 92.6
10 Lost Angel (1943) James Craig 4.10 171.1 256.90 76 70 00 / 00 91.5
11 Three Wise Fools (1946) Lionel Barrymore &
Cyd Charisse
4.40 157.6 199.40 74 64 00 / 00 87.7
12 Journey for Margaret (1942) Robert Young &
Laraine Day
2.20 95.9 188.90 119 67 00 / 00 80.8
13 The Unfinished Dance (1947) Cyd Charisse 3.10 103.1 210.30 113 64 00 / 00 80.2
14 The Secret Garden (1949) Elsa Lanchester 1.70 48.7 60.40 152 71 00 / 00 73.0
15 Big City (1948) Robert Preston &
Edward Arnold
2.40 74.8 115.00 127 63 00 / 00 72.9
16 Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) Angela Lansbury 1.90 59.6 65.80 144 65 00 / 00 69.9
17 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) Van Johnson &
Lionel Barrymore
1.50 60.7 93.10 130 61 00 / 00 65.6
19 Heller in Pink Tights (1960) Sophia Loren &
Anthony Quinn
2.70 49.2 49.20 84 51 00 / 00 44.0
18 Amy (1981) Barry Newman 1.70 7.5 7.50 124 64 00 / 00 42.7
20 This Is Our Christmas (2018) Ronn Moss 0.10 0.1 0.10 459 36 00 / 00 2.1
1942’s Journey For Margaret

Best IMDb Trivia On Margaret O’Brien

1. Angela Maxine O’Brien was born in San Diego, California in 1937.

2. In a practice common among child actors at the time, Margaret O’Brien adopted as her professional first name the name of the character who was her first credited part in Journey for Margaret (1942).

3. Margaret O’Brien was named to Quigley’s Annual Top Stars Poll three times:  She was ranked 9th in 1945, 8th in 1946 and 19th in 1947.

4.  Margaret O’Brien’s special Academy Award® as Outstanding Juvenile Performer for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) was stolen and she was unable to regain it for nearly fifty years when two memorabilia collectors came across it at a swap meet and managed to give it back to O’Brien.

5.  In 1991, Margaret O’Brien appeared in Murder, She Wrote, season 7, episode “Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?”, reuniting O’Brien with her Tenth Avenue Angel co-star Angela Lansbury.

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  1. Greg says:
    January 24, 2023 at 3:04 am

    I have seen six Margaret O’Brien .Those films are JOURNEY FOR MARGARET, MADAME CURIE. JANE EYRE, MEET ME IN ST.LOUIS, OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES, and LITTLE WOMEN. Not as a good an actress as child star Natalie Wood but she still had her moments especially in LITTLE WOMEN. The scene in LITTLE WOMEN where Margaret’s character Beth realizes she is dying is heartbreaking yet moving all at the same time.

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    1. Greg says:
      January 29, 2023 at 2:01 am

      The first sentence in the above post should be I have seen six Margaret O’Brien movies and not I have seen six Margaret O’Brien. Guess I didn’t catch that error in time when editing the post. My mistake and my apologies for the error.

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  2. bob cox says:
    January 23, 2020 at 10:17 am

    I saw 5 including top 5. 10 and favorite our vines have tender grapes(has not aged well). nine madame curie. meet me in st louis for me an eight , I agree about Halloween. no hidden gems.

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