from Variety
1931
Cimarron
Daddy Long Legs
Little Caesar
Min and Bill
The Smiling Lieutenant
Trader Horn
Weekly Variety January 5, 1932
1932
Grand Hotel
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 3, 1933
1933
She Done Him Wrong
Tugboat Annie
Gold Diggers of 1933
42nd Street
Little Women
State Fair
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 2, 1934
1934
I'm No Angel
Judge Priest
Dinner at Eight
It Happened One Night
The Bowery
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 1, 1935
1935
Mutiny on the Bounty
Top Hat
David Copperfield
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
China Seas
Curly Top
G Men
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 1, 1936
1937
Maytime
The Good Earth
Waikiki Wedding
Saratoga
Lost Horizon
The Prisoner of Zenda
After the Thin Man
The Plainsman
One in a Million
A Star Is Born
Weekly Variety January 5, 1938
1938
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Test pilot
In Old Chicago
The Hurricane
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Marie Antoinette
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 4, 1939
1940
Gone with the Wind
Boom Town
The Great Dictator
North West Mounted Police
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 8, 1940
1942
Mrs. Miniver $6,000,000
Reap the Wild Wind 5,200,000
Yankee Doodle Dandy 5,000,000
Road to Morocco 4,000,000
Holiday Inn 3,750,000
Wake Island 3,500,000
The Black Swan 3,000,000
Somewhere I'll Find You 3,000,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, Journey 6, 1943
1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls $11,000,000
The Song of Bernadette 7,000,000
This Is the Army 6,800,000
Stage Door Canteen 5,000,000
Random Harvest 4,800,000
Star Spangled Rhythm 3,850,000
Casablanca 3,700,000
Madame Curie 3,500,000
Coney Island 3,500,000
Hello, Frisco, Hello 3,400,000
Sweet Rosie O'Grady 3,400,000
Mr. Lucky 3,400,000
Crash Dive 3,300,000
Hitler's Children 3,250,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 5, 1944
1944
Going My Way $7,800,000
Since You Went Away 5,500,000
The White Cliffs of Dover 4,500,000
A Guy Named Joe 4,500,000
Frenchman's Creek 4,500,000
Wilson 4,250,000
The Story of Dr. Wassell 4,250,000
Thousands Cheer 4,000,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 3, 1945
1945
Thrill of a Romance
Anchors Aweigh
The Valley of Decision
The Harvey Girls
Week-End at the Waldorf
State Fair
The Dolly Sisters
Casanova Brown
Up in Arms
1946
The Bells of St. Mary's $8,000,000
Leave Her to Heaven 5,750,000
Blue Skies 5,000,000
Road to Utopia 5,000,000
Spellbound 5,000,000
The Green Years 4,750,000
Adventure 4,500,000
Easy to Wed 4,500,000
Notorious 4,500,000
Two Years Before the Mast 4,400,000
The Lost Weekend 4,300,000
The Harvey Girls 4,250,000
Saratoga Trunk 4,250,000
Holiday in Mexico 4,000,000
The Kid from Brooklyn 4,000,000
Margie 4,000,000
Night and Day 4,000,000
The Postman Always Rings Twice 4,000,000
Smoky 4,000,000
Gilda 3,750,000
Two Sisters from Boston 3,750,000
Ziegfeld Follies 3,750,000
To Each His Own 3,600,000
Anna and the King of Siam 3,500,000
Kitty 3,500,000
The Virginian 3,350,000
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 3,250,000
They Were Expendable 3,250,000
Tomorrow Is Forever 3,250,000
Undercurrent 3,250,000
The Stork Club 3,200,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 8, 1947
1947
The Best Years of Our Lives $11,500,000
Duel in the Sun 10,700,000
The Jolson Story 8,000,000
Forever Amber 8,000,000
Unconquered 7,500,000
Life with Father 6,300,000
Welcome Stranger 6,100,000
The Egg and I 5,750,000
The Yearling 5,300,000
Green Dolphin Street 5,000,000
The Razor's Edge 5,000,000
The Hucksters 4,700,000
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 4,500,000
Till the Clouds Roll By 4,500,000
Mother Wore Tights 4,150,000
California 3,900,000
Dear Ruth 3,800,000
The Perils of Pauline 3,800,000
The Sea of Grass 3,650,000
This Time for Keeps 3,650,000
Variety Girl 3,600,000
Fiesta 3,500,000
Song of the South 3,400,000
The Time, the Place and Girl 3,400,000
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 3,350,000
The Farmer's Daughter 3,300,000
It's a Wonderful Life 3,300,000
Body and Soul 3,250,000
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now 3,200,000
Weekly variety Wednesday, January 7, 1948
1948
Road to Rio $4,500,000
Easter Parade 4,200,000
Red River 4,150,000
The Three Musketeers 4,100,000
Johnny Belinda 4,100,000
Cass Timberlane 4,050,000
The Emperor Waltz 4,000,000
Gentleman's Agreement 3,900,000
A Date with Judy 3,700,000
Captain from Castile 3,650,000
Homecoming 3,600,000
Sitting Pretty 3,550,000
The Paleface 3,500,000
State of the Union 3,500,000
My Wild Irish Rose 3,400,000
When My Baby Smiles at Me 3,400,000
Hamlet 3,250,000
Key Largo 3,250,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 5, 1949
1949
Jolson Sings Again $5,500,000
Pinky 4,200,000
I Was a Male War Bride 4,100,000
The Snake Pit 4,100,000
Joan of Arc 4,100,000
The Stratton Story 3,700,000
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College 3,650,000
Little Women 3,600,000
Words and Music 3,500,000
Neptune's Daughter 3,450,000
In the Good Old Summertime 3,400,000
Sorrowful Jones 3,400,000
Take Me Out to the Ball Game 3,350,000
The Great Lover 3,300,000
The Barkleys of Broadway 3,200,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 4, 1950
1950
Samson and Delilah $11,000,000
Battleground 4,550,000
King Solomon's Mines 4,400,000
Cheaper by the Dozen 4,325,000
Annie Get Your Gun 4,200,000
Cinderella 4,150,000
Father of the Bride 4,150,000
Sands of Iwo Jima 3,900,000
Broken Arrow 3,550,000
Twelve O'Clock High 3,225,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 3, 1951
1951
David and Bathsheba $7,000,000
Showboat 5,000,000
An American in Paris 4,500,000
The Great Caruso 4,500,000
A Streetcar Named Desire 4,250,000
Born Yesterday 4,150,000
That's My Boy 3,800,000
A Place in the Sun 3,500,000
At War With the Army 3,350,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 2, 1952
1952
The Greatest Show on Earth $12,000,000
Quo Vadis 10,500,000
Ivanhoe 7,000,000
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 6,500,000
Sailor Beware 4,300,000
The African Queen 4,000,000
Jumping Jacks 4,000,000
High Noon 3,400,000
Son of Paleface 3,400,000
Singin' in the Rain 3,300,000
With a Song in My Heart 3,250,000
The Quiet Man 3,200,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January 7, 1953
1953
The Robe $20-30,000,000
From Here to Eternity 12,500,000
Shane 8,000,000
How to Marry a Millionaire 7,500,000
Peter Pan 7,000,000
Hans Christian Andersen 6,000,000
House of Wax 5,500,000
Mogambo 5,200,000
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 5,100,000
Moulin Rouge 5,000,000
Salome 4,750,000
Weekly Variety Wednesday, January13, 1954
1954
White Christmas $12,000,000
The Caine Mutiny 8,700,000
The Glenn Miller Story 7,000,000
The Egyptian 6,000,000
1955
Cinerama Holiday $10,000,000
Mister Roberts 8,500,000
Battle Cry 8,000,000
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 8,000,000
Not as a Stranger 7,000,000
1956
Guys and Dolls $9,000,000
The King and I 8,500,000
Trapeze 7,500,000
1957
The Ten Commandments $18,500,000
Around the World in 80 Days 16,200,000
Giant 12,000,000
1958
The Bridge on the River Kwai $18,000,000
Peyton Place 12,000,000
Sayonara 10,500,000
1960
Ben-Hur $33,000,000 |