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

Jane Wyman (1917-2007) was an Oscar® winning American actress.  She was also known as a singer, dancer and philanthropist.   Her career spanned seven decades!  Jane Wyman’s IMDb page shows 111 acting credits from 1932-1993. This page will rank 62 Jane Wyman movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Three of her short films, 22 television roles and 24 uncredited roles were not included in the rankings.  This Jane Wyman page was requested by Chris and Just me.

Jane Wyman 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 Jane Wyman movies by co-stars of her movies
• Sort Jane Wyman movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Jane Wyman movies by domestic yearly box office rank
• Sort Jane Wyman 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 Jane Wyman movie received.
• Sort Jane Wyman movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
• Blue link in Co-star column takes you to that star’s UMR movie page

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Jane Wyman Table

1. Twenty-one Jane Wyman movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark.  That is a percentage of 33.87% of her movies listed. The Yearling (1946) was her biggest box office hit.
2. An average Jane Wyman movie grosses $94.40 million in adjusted box office gross.
3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  31 Jane Wyman movies are rated as good movies…or 50.00% of her movies.  The Last Weekend  (1945) is her highest rated movie while Magic Town (1947) is her lowest rated movie.
4. Ten Jane Wyman movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 16.12% of her movies.
5. Five Jane Wyman movie won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 8.06% of her movies.
6. An average “good movie” Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 60.00.  35 Jane Wyman movie scored higher that average….or 56.45% of her movies. The Last Weekend  (1945) got the the highest UMR Score while The Spy Ring (1938) got the lowest UMR Score.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Jane Wyman

1.  Sarah Jane Mayfield was born in St Joseph, Missouri in 1917.

2. How Sarah Jane Mayfield became Jane Wyman.  Jane was her middle…her first husband was Ernest Wyman……she used Jane as her first name and kept Wyman after her divorce from Ernest.

3.   Jane Wyman tried, unsuccessfully, to break into films as a child actress but achieved some recognition later for her singing on the radio.

4. After appearing in over 20 uncredited roles in the mid 1930s, Jane Wyman signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1936.  This lead to credited roles, which lead to better roles which finally lead her to movie stardom.

5.  Jane Wyman was nominated for 4 Oscars®.  She won the Best Actress Oscar for 1948’s Johnny Belinda.

6.  When comparing Jane Wyman’s Oscar® winning performance to other Best Actress winning performances….her movie is ranked as the 37th (out of 90 movies) best movie on our UMR Best Actress Oscar® page.

7.  Jane Wyman held the record for the longest screen kiss for 47 years.  She and Regis Toomey kissed  in 1941’s You’re in the Army Now for 3 minutes and 5 seconds.

8.  Jane Wyman was married five times.  She had three children.  All three of her children were with her 3rd husband, Ronald Reagan.  She and Reagan were frequent co-stars on the big screen.  Reagan of course found fame in politics.

9.  Jane Wyman was one of the biggest stars of the 1940s.  She appeared in 27 movies that grossed $2.97 BILLION…..that was good enough for 28th place on our Top Box Office Stars of the 1940s page.

10. Check out Jane Wyman‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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Still not enough Jane Wyman stats for you?  How about some Wyman adjusted worldwide box office grosses?

1. Hollywood Canteen (1944) $510,641,332.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
2. Night and Day (1946) $429,360,621.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
3. The Crowd Roars (1938) $260,397,039.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
4. Princess O’Rourke (1943) $255,298,539.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
5. Cheyenne (1947) $208,699,415.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
6. One More Tomorrow (1946) $201,521,619.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
7. The Singing Marine (1937) $186,307,696.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
8. Brother Rat (1938) $168,771,110.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
9. The Story of Will Rogers (1952) $117,561,363.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
10. Magic Town (1947) $115,312,259.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
11. Starlift (1951) $113,784,574.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
12. Three Guys Named Mike (1951) $110,225,722.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
13. Stage Fright (1950) $98,239,295.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
14. Slim (1937) $87,165,392.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
15. My Love Came Back (1940) $79,085,722.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
16. The Glass Menagerie (1950) $76,047,920.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
17. Honeymoon for Three (1941) $76,036,312.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
18. Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) $49,781,650.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
19. Smart Blonde (1937) $47,508,464.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
20. Crime By Night (1944) $42,726,805.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
21. Kid Nightingale (1939) $42,385,000.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
22. An Angel from Texas (1940) $32,658,171.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
23. Private Detective (1939) $30,151,426.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
24. He Couldn’t Say No (1938) $27,680,000.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
25. Public Wedding (1937) $24,486,152.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
26. Mr. Dodd Takes The Air (1937) $15,836,152.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
27. The Body Disappears (1941) $11,337,676.00 million in adjusted world wide box office
28. Torchy Blane.. Playing With Dynamite (1939) $7,506,963.00 million in adjusted world wide box office

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