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Piper Laurie (1932-2023) was a three-time Oscar® nominated American actress. Laurie known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), all of which brought her Academy Award® nominations. Her IMDb page shows over 184 acting credits from 1955 to 2018. This page will rank Piper Laurie 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.
Piper Laurie Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Piper Laurie Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Check out Piper Laurie’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
Rest in peace Piper Laurie. I added one more movie to my total since the page was created: Dangerous Mission, not a favourite.
Rest in Peace Piper Laurie. Lots of great movies left behind.
THE 14 PIPER LAURIE MOVIES THAT I HAVE SEEN
The Hustler
Prince Who was a Thief
The Golden Blade
Johnny Dark
Smoke Signal
Dangerous Mission
Children of a Lesser Joel
Kelly and Me
Other People’s Money
Appointment with Death
Dawn at Socorro – “Dawn and the Gambler” was a 1954 trailer catchphrase for the movie
Mississippi Gambler
Ain’t Misbehavin
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The Faculty -I rented a Blockbuster store video of this movie and watched it in my daughter’s apartment in Atlanta on my 1999 holiday in the States.
According to Piper in an interview the first real romance that she ever had was with Ronnie Reagan when they made Louisa together in 1950. She was a big part of my boyhood because she appeared frequently in the B action movies that I used to haunt in my early years as a glance at the list of her movies that I have seen and which I provide in Part 2 will illustrate.
In that interview that I mention Piper showed me that because movies were made so relatively cheaply in Old Hollywood they didn’t have to be massive grossers to potentially generate large fortunes for studios. For example Son of Ali Baba and The Prince who was a Thief had an average adjusted domestic gross of about $65 million according to Bruce– far below his magical $ 100 million benchmark; but according to Piper they collectively made “tons of money” for Universal in the currency of their day
HISTORICAL NOTE: Prince who was a Thief was Bernie Schwartz’s first movie as a star and Son of Ali is apparently the one where he uttered the now-legendary “Yonda lies de castle of my Faddah!” [though as always it seems that he never said precisely that].
Piper later contemptuously put both movies down as “T**s and sand” pot-boilers and probably her most prestigious movie was The Hustler. However my own fave Piper Laurie films are Dawn at Socorro and Other People’s Money [which I regard as homage to Myrna Loy] and in which Piper was the romantic partner of my idol Royal Dano.
Indeed Dawn at Socorro is one of my all-time fave westerns despite being a supporting feature. In fact I see that above The Work Horse gives it a 68% rating which is actually quite excellent [and observant rating from my viewpoint] for what was regarded in its day as a routine B western; though it was sexually explicit to a degree that whilst tame by today’s standards was quite open for a small western of the early 1950s. The icing on the cake is that Bruce actually gives its top star Rory Calhoun credit for the movie in the co-star links column as WH does for Rory’s other movie with Piper Ain’t Misbehavin.
Piper was one of the cornerstones of the 1950s B movie cinema which she ultimately transcended; so this new page gets a high “Vote Up!” from me.