Sandy Dennis Movies

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

Sandy Dennis (1937-1992) was an Oscar® and Tony® award-winning American actress.  At the height of her career in the 1960s, she won two Tony® Awards, as well as an Oscar® for her performance in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  Her IMDb page shows 36 acting and writing credits from 1952 to 1991.  This page will rank Sandy Dennis 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.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

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

Up The Down Staircase (1967)

Sandy Dennis 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 Sandy Dennis movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
The Out of Towners (1970)

Best IMDb Trivia On Sandy Dennis

1. Sandy Dale Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska in 1937. Her mom was a secretary and her dad was a postal clerk.

2.  Sandy Dennis’s early acting break occurred she was cast as an understudy in the Broadway production of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957) which was directed by Elia Kazan. Kazan cast Dennis in her first feature film, a small part in Splendor in the Grass (1961), which starred Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty.

3.  Sandy Dennis achieved Broadway fame with her leading role in Herb Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns (1962–63), for which she won a Tony® award for her performance alongside Jason Robards.

4.  Sandy Dennis’s second film role was as in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Directed by Mike Nichols and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the film was a huge critical and commercial success and Dennis won the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

5. Sandy Dennis was a dedicated exponent of the ‘Method’ technique via the Actor’s Studio, her physical neuroticisms could either captivate or repel audiences.

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14 thoughts on “Sandy Dennis Movies

  1. Unfortunately I have no grounds for a comment, have seen none of these movies.

    Seen: 0/17 or 0%
    Favorite Top 10:
    UMR Snub (Too High/Too Low):
    Guilty Pleasure:

    1. Hey Bryan…don’t feel to bad…many of the UMR regulars have only seen a few of these movies. She got a page because she was an Oscar winner. Thanks for stopping by.

  2. I saw 4 of top 5. missed up the down staircase which I recently added to my watchlist thanks to UMRs teacher choice page. 10 and favorite who’s afraid of virginia wolf. 9 and favorite splendor in the grass.

    waovw a dark gritty movie worth seeing every 40 years, not recommended for light entertainment but magnificent writing and performances. won a tony as a play. had all 4 major performances nominated for Oscar. ms dennis and Elizabeth taylor won. Richard burton was edged out by paul Scofield in a man for all seasons one of 6 best actor Oscar misses after nomination for burton, add I miss for best supporting actor Oscar. 0 for 7. he won 1 tony for best actor in a musical camelot( out of 3 nominations). he won a grammy for a children’s recording.

    1. Hey bob cox. I have seen 8 of her movies, so I double your total. Funny line about seeing Va Woolf? every 40 years….that means I am due to watch it in 2047…..since I have only seen it once so far. I can easily wait that long to see it again. I think that was Burton’s best chance for an Oscar. His career really went downhill after that one. Up The Down Staircase is very dated….but I think it is one of favorite of her performances. Good stuff as always.

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