62 Mary Wickes Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Charlotte is a spinster who has had her life controlled entirely by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. On a cruise to South America, she meets and starts having an affair with Jerry Durrance, an architect trapped in a bad marriage. After returning, she rebels against her mother, which eventually gives her mother a heart attack, resulting in her death.

The Music Man is a comedy drama musical film which tells the story of a traveling con artist named Harold Hill, who comes to a Midwestern town by posing as a boys’ band leader. His intention behind posing as the leader of the boys’ band is to raise money and scam the people, but things don’t go as expected.  

After WWII, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis form a successful Broadway entertainment act. Soon they team up with sister act Betty and Judy Haynes to present a Christmas Show in a rural Vermont lodge. As the boys discover that their WWII commander Gen. Waverly is the lodge owner and is in financial difficulty, the foursome creates a musical extravaganza to help Waverly. 

A comedy about two lively girls growing up in a Catholic environment. It follows their adventures as they go on making mischief and giving the nuns at their Catholic school a hard time. 

Upon his return from the war, John Chandler finds his life turned upside down. His wife died in a cannon fire and his son David, who witnessed the event, turned mute due to shock. The father son duo, along with their dog, travel to a town in Illinois in search of good treatment. However, they soon run into trouble when they meet sheep-herder Burleigh brothers.

Touched by Love is a drama film, which revolves around a young trainee nurse who attempts to help an unresponsive teenager suffering from cerebral palsy. She also encourages the latter to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley. 

Prolific lyricist Gus Kahn’s luck changes for the better when he meets and falls in love with Grace LeBoy, who becomes his composer. Later Gus and Grace get married and he achieves even more success until he loses all his savings in the 1929 stock-market crash. 

Little Women is a family drama film, which tells the story of the March sisters, and their struggles to live and grow in a 19th century America that is struck by the Civil War, after their father leaves to fight for the Union Army. 

The Story of Will Rogers is a biography comedy drama film which revolves around the life of well-known humorist, actor and social critic, Will Rogers. 

Lew Marsh, an Iowa pharmacist, is grief-stricken on learning about son Rusty’s death in war. Embittered that the boy died too soon before enjoying life, Lew isolates himself in his grief. The spirit of his grandfather appears and takes him on a trip through the past, revisiting the milestone moments, convincing Lew that Rusty lived his life well and died an honorable death. 

Teenager Ruth Gordon Jones wants to drop out of school and move to New York City to pursue a career as a theater actress. However, her father, a former sailor working a menial job, who was once forced to leave school to seek work, wants her to become an instructor and marry handsome Harvard student Fred Whitmarsh.

Anna is a young girl who was forced to turn to prostitution after being disowned by her cruel and alcoholic father. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law devises a plan to marry her off to a man named Rudolf, and also make some money in the process. Things get interesting as Rudolf takes an instant liking to her.

Stanley Ford is a cartoonist working for a newspaper, who is enjoying a well-to-do bachelor life in New York City. While attending a bachelor party for his friend Tobey Rawlins, Ford gets too drunk, and gets accidentally married to an Italian woman who doesn’t even speak English. It also seems impossible to get divorce without legal justification. Thus Ford is forced to live a married life. Although the woman initially seems to be cheerful and affectionate, he eventually begins to regret his marriage. Things get even more complicated when she starts believing that Ford is planning to murder her.

Art Trouble is a comedy short film which tells the story of two brothers, who are ordered by their parents to go to Paris to study art, although they have other interests. Therefore, they decide to hire two house painters instead to go in their place. Things get complicated after the impostors win an art contest.

Dance with me, Henry tells the story of two owners of an amusement park, who get in trouble with gangsters. However, the children who visit the amusement park decide to help them out. 

During WWII, a US Navy Personal Relations unit is based on a small South Pacific island. Lt. Max Siegel, looking after the PR duties, runs around keeping war-correspondents and politicians happy by taking them around the island. He also plays a helpful cupid in his yeoman’s romance with an officer nurse, while Siegel himself tries to win over the local schoolteacher Melora.   

George Petty is an artist who is well-known for his calendar portraits of pretty women. When he meets a young professor named Victoria, he finds himself drawn to her, and tries to get her to pose for his art. Although she declines his offer, he continues to persist.

Too Much Johnson is a silent comedy film, which tells the story of a man, who finds out that the woman he loves, is seeing another man. Therefore, he acts like a villain and starts to chase him down. 

An under-investigation bookie Robert ‘Numbers’ Foster flees to Florida; however, his girlfriend Yvonne’s testimony clears him. While returning, he is smitten with Emily Stackerlee, an aspiring stage-artist. When he takes her along to give her a part in a nightclub act, she brings her bloodhounds with her. Yvonne feels jealous, which gives rise to complications when a fresh investigation starts over Foster’s book-making. 

Suzanne is an actress who is a recovering drug addict. Her production company says that she has to stay with her mother, if she wants to continue working. However, the problem is that her mother, who is a former actress, still treats her like a child. In addition, she is manipulative and self-absorbed.  

Red is fired by Mr Jones, his boss, for not getting his desk chair fixed. Red tells Mr Jones that as revenge for this, he is going to haunt him. The same evening, Mr Jones goes to a supper club in his town, along with Mrs Jones, and on the road, he begins to see images of Red everywhere. Even the doorman, the waiter, and the other people begin to resemble Red.

11 years old Napolean and his grandfather adopt the aging lion, Major, from a circus clown. But his grandfather dies leaving him an orphan and in charge of the lion. Napolean, his friend Samantha, and Major, take an epic journey into the mountains to find their friend Danny who might provide a way out for them. 

Higher and Higher is a romantic comedy drama musical film which revolves around Cyrus Drake, a piano manufacturer who used to be a millionaire, but is currently going through bankruptcy. He is unable to pay his household staff for seven months. When his wife and daughter is on a long trip abroad, they all plan a scheme to pass off the attractive maid as his daughter, so that she can be married off to a rich man. Millie is however in love with Mike, one of the servants.  

Loosely based on Charles Mercer’s novel Rachel Cade, the story revolves around a protestant missionary doctor, serving in a small medical station in Congo during the WWII.  Although initially skeptical, the military administrator is soon attracted towards her. But drawn towards an injured RAF pilot, she makes love to him the night before he leaves.  

Ben and Kate rent a haunted house in New England along with their son. Soon, strange and destructive occurrences begin to take place, and the parents begin to suspect their son. However, the real perpetrators are a group of angry ghosts who want the house for themselves.    

Entertainer Lon Prentice wants to enlist in the army, but he is unable to do so, because of his flat foot. However, he is eventually enlisted after getting it fixed, but he finds most of the military training useless and beneath him, due to to his skill and fame. Eventually, his commander allows him to be exempt from partaking in activities that he doesn’t like. However, this turns the entire camp against him.

After losing his job, Maxwell Webster considers it as an opportunity to start something on his own. Eventually, he tries to convince his wife to move to Los Angeles, with him and their three adolescent children. However, things don’t go as expected, and life seems to be even harder than before.  

Ben Dobson is a freelance writer who finds a full-time writing job at a national magazine. After four years, his wife pressurizes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs, after which his boss asks him to write a story on the suburbs titled ‘Slums of Tomorrow’.

When lounge singer, Deloris, witnesses her gangster boyfriend execute an informant, she is put under witness protection and sent to a rundown convent in San Francisco. Initially a misfit, she soon befriends other nuns and becomes the director of the choir. Under her guidance, it becomes very popular, inviting the attention of her former boyfriend, who has put a bounty on her head.  

The Decision of Christopher Blake is a drama film which tells the story of Evelyn and Ken Blake, who are about to get divorced after Ken commits adultery. Things get complicated for their 12 year old son Christopher, who is both hurt and confused. He is unable to decide which one of his parents he wants to stay with.

This comedy film tells the story of showgirl Delores who once again returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music at a Catholic school. However, she must also not only defend the school from closing down, but fend off a few adamant monks as well. 

The Disney adaptation tells the story of Quasimodo, the kind-hearted deformed hunchback of Notre Dame Cathedral. Growing up hiding from the society, he eventually falls in love with the gypsy Esmeralda. But he must stop the evil archdeacon of Notre Dame, Claude Frollo, who lusts after Esmeralda and wants to destroy the gypsies.