Want to know the best Maria Montez movies? How about the worst Maria Montez movies? Curious about Maria Montez box office grosses or which Maria Montez movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Maria Montez movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Maria Montez (1912-1951) was a Dominican motion picture actress. Montez gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. Her IMDb page shows 28 acting credits from 1940 to 1951. This page will rank Maria Montez movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. 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.
Maria Montez Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1942 | Arabian Nights (1942) |  |
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| 1941 | That Night in Rio (1941) | |
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| 1944 | Follow The Boys (1944) | |
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| 1943 | White Savage (1943) |  |
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| 1944 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) |  |
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| 1945 | Sudan (1945) | |
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| 1944 | Bowery to Broadway (1944) | |
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| 1946 | Tangier (1946) |  |
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| 1944 | Cobra Woman (1944) | |
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| 1949 | Portrait of a Killer (1949) | |
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| 1947 | The Exile (1947) | |
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| 1949 | Wicked City (1949) |  |
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| 1944 | Gypsy Wildcat (1944) |  |
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| 1947 | Pirates of Monterey (1947) | |
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| 1942 | Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) | |
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| 1941 | Moonlight in Hawaii (1941) | |
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| 1940 | The Invisible Woman (1940) |  |
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| 1942 | Bombay Clipper (1942) | |
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| 1949 | Siren Of Atlantis (1949) | |
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| 1941 | South of Tahiti (1941) |  |
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| 1941 | Raiders of the Desert (1941) | |
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| 1950 | The Thief of Venice (1950) | |
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| 1940 | Boss of Bullion City (1940) |  |
Maria Montez 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 any way you want.
- Sort Maria Montez movies by her co-stars
- Sort Maria Montez movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Maria Montez movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Maria Montez 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 Maria Montez movie received.
- Sort Maria Montez 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 | ||||
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| 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 |
| 3 | Arabian Nights (1942) | Jon Hall & Sabu |
4.90 | 212.7 | 518.20 | 48 | 63 | 04 / 00 | 93.4 | |
| 2 | That Night in Rio (1941) | Alice Faye & Don Ameche |
5.20 | 230.4 | 230.40 | 24 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 92.7 | |
| 1 | Follow The Boys (1944) | Jeanette MacDonald & W.C. Fields |
6.50 | 252.0 | 252.00 | 44 | 58 | 01 / 00 | 90.8 | |
| 4 | White Savage (1943) | Sabu | 4.00 | 166.7 | 166.70 | 80 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 86.1 | |
| 5 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944) | Andy Devine & Jon Hall |
1.50 | 60.3 | 60.30 | 127 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 74.0 | |
| 6 | Sudan (1945) | Jon Hall | 1.90 | 69.9 | 69.90 | 120 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 73.1 | |
| 7 | Bowery to Broadway (1944) | Donald O'Connor | 1.70 | 64.9 | 64.90 | 123 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 70.8 | |
| 8 | Tangier (1946) | Robert Paige | 0.70 | 23.4 | 23.40 | 153 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 62.0 | |
| 10 | Cobra Woman (1944) | Jon Hall | 1.10 | 43.6 | 43.60 | 143 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 61.3 | |
| 9 | Portrait of a Killer (1949) | Erich von Stroheim | 0.50 | 13.4 | 13.40 | 200 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 58.9 | |
| 11 | The Exile (1947) | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | 0.60 | 21.6 | 21.60 | 171 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 51.4 | |
| 12 | Wicked City (1949) | Jean-Pierre Aumont | 0.30 | 8.2 | 8.20 | 205 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 44.8 | |
| 13 | Gypsy Wildcat (1944) | Nigel Bruce & Jon Hall |
0.70 | 28.4 | 28.40 | 161 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 39.1 | |
| 14 | Pirates of Monterey (1947) | Rod Cameron | 0.30 | 10.0 | 10.00 | 176 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 35.5 | |
| 15 | Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) | Patric Knowles | 0.60 | 24.2 | 24.20 | 207 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 34.2 | |
| 16 | Moonlight in Hawaii (1941) | Jane Frazee | 0.70 | 33.4 | 33.40 | 189 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 30.3 | |
| 17 | The Invisible Woman (1940) | Virginia Bruce & John Barrymore |
0.60 | 25.4 | 25.40 | 203 | 51 | 01 / 00 | 29.2 | |
| 18 | Bombay Clipper (1942) | William Gargan | 0.20 | 8.7 | 8.70 | 223 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 26.4 | |
| 19 | Siren Of Atlantis (1949) | Dennis O'Keefe | 0.40 | 10.2 | 10.20 | 203 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 24.0 | |
| 20 | South of Tahiti (1941) | Broderick Crawford | 0.20 | 7.3 | 7.30 | 227 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 17.8 | |
| 22 | Raiders of the Desert (1941) | Richard Arlen | 0.50 | 21.6 | 21.60 | 216 | 45 | 00 / 00 | 15.6 | |
| 21 | The Thief of Venice (1950) | Paul Hubschmid | 0.30 | 8.3 | 8.30 | 207 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 14.6 | |
| 23 | Boss of Bullion City (1940) | Johnny Mack Brown | 0.10 | 2.3 | 2.30 | 227 | 24 | 00 / 00 | 0.2 |
Check out Maria Montez‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
“I’m late! I’m late!” said the White Rabbit. I’m about 26 new pages behind Bruce, which is ridiculous. How did this happen? Is it my fault? 🙂
I’ve seen 5 Maria Montez films that I know of – Arabian Nights, Ali Baba, Cobra Woman, That Night in Rio and The Invisible Woman. None of them favorites but they are fun to watch.
Thanks for the video share, I can barely remember making that video. What was no.1? Let me have a peek… Arabian Nights, okay and it’s no.9 on your chart, what else is new? 😉
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve. Yep you are slipping…lol. You used to have a perfect record for having a comment on every UMR page…..now you are pages and pages behind. But it is ok, some of these recent pages have had subjects that are not exactly “door busters”.
I remember when you did your Montez video, I told myself…..I will probably never do a page on her…yet here we are. I still have not seen a single one of her movies. Maybe I will have to see one of her movies. Good stuff.
The only Maria Montez movie I have seen is ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES. However, if anyone wants to know more about Miss Montez, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND James Robert Parish’s book entitled HOLLYWOOD’S GREAT LOVE TEAMS. The book covers the careers of every great screen duo from Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn to Doris Day and Rock Hudson. In the book, Parish does a whole chapter on Maria Montez and Jon Hall that is kinda interesting.
Hey Greg….thanks for checking out our Maria Montez page. Your tally of 1 is better than my total of 0. Heck…I have not even heard of most of these movies. Thanks for the recommendation of Hollywood’s Great Love Teams. Not thinking I would have ever guessed that Montez/Loder would make that book….but it sounds like a book worth checking out. Good stuff.
As well as acting in movies Maria wrote poetry and 3 books two of which were published. [If Myrna Loy or the ex Mrs Willis ever worte poetry or books I have never heard of them.]
Bruce’s tables show that Jon Hall was Maria’s frequent co-star. Jon who was in an uncredited role as a Tahitian native in 1935’s Mutiny on the Bounty appeared in escapist films in far off places with other actresses as well: for example with Frances Farmer [and Bogie’s “wet paper bag” actor Victor McLaglen] in South of Pago Pago; On the Isle of Samoa with Susan Cabot; and two exotic yarns with Dorothy Lamour – The Hurricane and Aloma of the South Seas.
When I started watching movies in the early 1950s among the first films I attended were 3 of the last films in Jon’s years as a regular B list actor: Last Train to Bombay and two westerns – Brave Warrior and When the Redskins Rode.
By coincidence last week I watched 2 Perry Mason rerun episodes which Jon made in 1963 and 1965 playing about 4th fiddle to the Great Lawyer. Last night I watched Joan Crawford’s old romantic Beau Johnny Mack Brown [Montana Moon and Our Dancing Daughters] in a 1958 Perry Mason episode. Johnny was 54 then but still looked debonair and would I thought have made an ideal Father Goose a few years later.
Hey Bob….the career of Maria Montez has escaped me. Even having Joel’s book for so long, I never really paid attention to her section of the book. I guess her name first registered with me, when we had our “Joel trashes Marlon” conversations….and I noticed Joel ranked Maria as the worst thespian in his book. Then Steve, shockingly…in my mind did a YouTube video on her. Well…finally she gets a little bit of UMR spotlight.
I had noticed Jon Hall and Sabu kept popping up in her movies. Thanks for providing more information on him. Good stuff as always.
I always like Easterns as they called them, Arabian pictures. I saw Arabian Nights with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves at Theater 80 in Manhattan nearly 40 years ago. I saw White Savage there too. Those 3 used to be part of my collection along with Sudan and Gypsy Wildcat. Alas we’re trying to get rid of some tapes and they were taped off regular TV with all the commercials intact back in the 80’s.
Maria was never on the Oracle of Bacon list and she connects with very few people on the 2020 list.
102 ORSON WELLES Follow the Boys (1944)
788 MARCEL DALIO Portrait d’un assassin (1949)
788 MARCEL DALIO Wicked City (1949)
810 JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT Siren of Atlantis (1949)
837 BRODERICK CRAWFORD South of Tahiti (1941)
Maria appeared with only 3 Oscar winners.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD South of Tahiti (1941)
DON AMECHE That Night in Rio (1941)
GALE SONDERGAARD FOLLOW THE BOYS (1944)
GALE SONDERGAARD GYPSY WILDCAT (1944)
GALE SONDERGAARD PIRATES OF MONTEREY (1947)
Hey Dan….thanks for the thoughts on Maria Montez. Montez is the lowest rated actress in Joel’s book…..she will not get that honor when I compare all 410 subjects in the book. Good to know that you like her Arabian pictures. Sounds like she was somebody that interested your Dan back in the day. I have not seen a single one of her movies. With 4 people on the first list and 3 on the second list….a total of 7 people has to be one of the lowest totals you have shared.
Good memory share” I saw Arabian Nights with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves at Theater 80 in Manhattan nearly 40 years ago. Nice double feature…and nice memory. Good stuff as always.
Excellent UMR Page.
Beautiful Actress.
Thank you. Not only have I not seen any of her movies….I have not even heard of most of her movies.