1931 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies

1931 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies:

Highest-grossing films of 1931

Rank	Title	Studio	Box office gross rental
1	City Lights	United Artists	$2,000,000[1]
2	Trader Horn	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$1,642,000[2]
3	Palmy Days	United Artists	$1,601,000[3]
4	The Champ Daddy Long Legs	Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Fox Film Corporation	$1,500,000[4]
5	The Man Who Came Back	Fox Film Corporation	$1,400,000[4]
6	Cimarron	RKO Radio Pictures	$1,383,000[5]
7	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Merely Mary Ann	Paramount Pictures Fox Film Corporation	$1,300,000[4]
8	Arrowsmith	United Artists	$1,250,000[6]
9	A Connecticut Yankee	United Artists	$1,200,000[6]
10	Bad Girl	Fox Film Corporation	$1,100,000[4]

1) City Lights

City Lights
Directed by	Charlie Chaplin
Produced by	Charlie Chaplin
Written by	Charlie Chaplin
Starring	Charlie Chaplin Virginia Cherrill Florence Lee Harry Myers Al Ernest Garcia
Music by	Charlie Chaplin Flower Girl's theme by José Padilla[1] Orchestrated by Arthur Johnston and Alfred Newman
Cinematography	Roland Totheroh Gordon Pollock
Edited by	Charlie Chaplin Willard Nico
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	January 30, 1931
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million
Box office	$5 million

2) Trader Horn

Trader Horn
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	W.S. Van Dyke
Produced by	Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
Written by	Dale Van Every (adaptation) John T. Neville (adaptation) Cyril Hume (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Richard Schayer
Based on	Trader Horn 1927 book by Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis
Starring	Harry Carey Edwina Booth Duncan Renaldo
Music by	James McKay
Cinematography	Clyde De Vinna
Edited by	Ben Lewis
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	May 23, 1931 (United States)
Running time	122 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.3 million[1][2]
Box office	$4.2 million (worldwide rentals)[2]

3) Palmy Days

Palmy Days
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn
Written by	Eddie Cantor Morrie Ryskind David Freedman
Starring	Eddie Cantor Charlotte Greenwood George Raft
Music by	Harry Akst
Cinematography	Gregg Toland
Edited by	Sherman Todd
Production company	Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 3, 1931
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,601,000[1][2]

4) The Champ
Daddy Long Legs

The Champ
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	King Vidor
Produced by	King Vidor Harry Rapf (uncredited) Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
Written by	Frances Marion Leonard Praskins
Starring	Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper Irene Rich Roscoe Ates
Cinematography	Gordon Avil
Edited by	Hugh Wynn
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 9, 1931
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$356,000[1]
Box office	$1.6 million[1]

Daddy Long Legs
Film poster, 1931
Directed by	Alfred Santell
Produced by	Sol M. Wurtzel
Written by	Novel: Jean Webster Screenplay: S.N. Behrman Sonya Levien Alfred Santell
Starring	Janet Gaynor Warner Baxter Una Merkel John Arledge
Music by	Hugo Friedhofer
Cinematography	Lucien N. Andriot
Edited by	Ralph Dietrich
Production company	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	June 5, 1931
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.5 million[1]

5) The Man Who Came Back

The Man Who Came Back
Charles Farrell in a scene from the film.
Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Written by	Jules Eckert Goodman (play) Edwin J. Burke
Starring	Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	January 11, 1931
Running time	74 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.4 million[1]

6) Cimarron

Cimarron
theatrical release poster
Directed by	Wesley Ruggles
Produced by	William LeBaron Louis Sarecky (assoc.)[1]
Screenplay by	Howard Estabrook Louis Sarecky
Based on	Cimarron 1929 novel by Edna Ferber
Starring	Richard Dix Irene Dunne
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Edward Cronjager
Edited by	William Hamilton
Production company	RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	January 26, 1931 (Premiere-New York City)[1] February 9, 1931 (US)[1]
Running time	124 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1,433,000[2]
Box office	$1,383,000[2]

7) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Merely Mary Ann

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rouben Mamoulian
Produced by	Rouben Mamoulian
Screenplay by	Samuel Hoffenstein Percy Heath
Based on	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886 novella) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Starring	Fredric March
Music by	Johann Sebastian Bach (uncredited) Herman Hand (adaptor – uncredited)
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	William Shea
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 31, 1931 (NYC) January 2, 1932 ((US))
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$535,000[1]
Box office	$1,250,000[2]

Merely Mary Ann
Newspaper advertisement
Directed by	Henry King
Written by	Jules Furthman
Based on	Merely Mary Ann (play) by Israel Zangwill
Starring	Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Beryl Mercer
Music by	Richard Fall
Cinematography	Arthur E. Arling John F. Seitz
Edited by	Frank E. Hull
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 6, 1931
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million[1]

8) Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Ford Brian Desmond Hurst
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn
Written by	Sidney Howard
Starring	Ronald Colman Helen Hayes Richard Bennett Myrna Loy
Music by	Alfred Newman
Cinematography	Ray June
Edited by	Hugh Bennett
Production company	Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	December 26, 1931
Running time	108 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.25 million[1]

9) A Connecticut Yankee

A Connecticut Yankee
Theatrical Poster
Directed by	David Butler
Produced by	William Fox
Written by	William Conselman Owen Davis Jack Moffitt
Based on	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Starring	Will Rogers William Farnum Maureen O'Sullivan Myrna Loy
Music by	Arthur Kay
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Irene Morra
Production company	Fox Film Corporation
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	April 6, 1931
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.2 million[1]

10) Bad Girl

Bad Girl
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Frank Borzage
Written by	Edwin J. Burke (continuity & dialogue) Rudolf Sieber (uncredited)
Based on	Bad Girl (1928 novel) by Viña Delmar Bad Girl (1930 play) by Viña Delmar and Brian Marlowe
Starring	Sally Eilers James Dunn Minna Gombell
Cinematography	Chester Lyons
Edited by	Margaret Clancey
Production company	Fox Film Corporation
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 19, 1931 (US)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	Under $100,000
Box office	$1.1 million

Related Searches:

1931 hollywood blvd
1931 hollywood drive monroe mi
1931 hollywood drive tallahassee fl
1931 hollywood movies
1931 hollywood dr monroe mi
1931 hollywood stars
1931 arthur street hollywood fl
1931 lincoln st hollywood fl
1931 hollywood blvd hollywood fl 33020
1931 pembroke rd hollywood fl 33020
1931 sherman st hollywood fl 33020
1931 cleveland st hollywood fl 33020
hollywood in 1931
hollywood mortuary 1931

• Tweet
• Share
• Share
• Share
• Share

About Admin MC3

This is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Accordingly, it is difficult to figure out when to end it. But then, this is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Period.

Related Post