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1946 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies


1946 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies:
Highest-grossing films of 1946
RankTitleStudioBox-office gross rental
1The Best Years of Our LivesRKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions$10,400,000[1]
2Duel in the SunSelznick International Pictures$10,000,000[1]
3The Jolson StoryColumbia Pictures$8,000,000[1]
4Blue SkiesParamount Pictures$5,700,000[1]
5The Outlaw [nb 1]RKO Radio Pictures$5,100,000[1]
6The Razor's Edge20th Century Fox$5,000,000[1]
7NotoriousRKO Radio Pictures$4,800,000[1]
8The YearlingMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer$4,768,000[2]
9Till the Clouds Roll By$4,762,000[2]
10Road to UtopiaParamount Pictures$4,500,000[1]

1) The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946 poster).jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWilliam Wyler
Produced bySamuel Goldwyn
Screenplay byRobert E. Sherwood
Based onGlory for Me
1945 novella
by MacKinlay Kantor
Starring
Music by
CinematographyGregg Toland
Edited byDaniel Mandell
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • November 21, 1946 (United States)
Running time
172 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.1 million[1] or $3 million[2]
Box office$23.7 million[3]

2) Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun.jpg
Directed byKing Vidor
Produced byDavid O. Selznick
Written byOliver H.P. Garrett (adaptation)
David O. Selznick (screenplay)
Ben Hecht (uncredited)
Based onDuel in the Sun
1944 novel
by Niven Busch
StarringJennifer Jones
Joseph Cotten
Gregory Peck
Narrated byOrson Welles
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
CinematographyLee Garmes
Ray Rennahan
Harold Rosson
Edited byJohn D. Faure
Charles L. Freeman
Hal Kern
William H. Ziegler
Production
company
Distributed bySelznick Releasing Organization
Release date
  • December 29, 1946
Running time
145 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6.48 million[1]
Box office$20.4 million[2]

3) The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story - 1946 Poster.jpg
Directed byAlfred E. Green
Produced bySidney Skolsky
Written byStephen Longstreet (screenplay)
Sidney Buchman (uncredited)
Harry Chandlee (adaptation)
Andrew Solt (adaptation)
StarringLarry Parks
Evelyn Keyes
William Demarest
Bill Goodwin
CinematographyJoseph Walker
Edited byWilliam A. Lyon
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 10, 1946
Running time
130 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million[1]
Box office$8 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2][3]

4) Blue Skies

Blue Skies
Blue skiesmp.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStuart Heisler
Produced bySol C. Siegel
Written byAllan G. Scott (adaptation)
Screenplay byArthur Sheekman
Story byIrving Berlin
Starring
Narrated byFred Astaire
Music byIrving Berlin
Cinematography
Edited byLeRoy Stone
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 16, 1946 (US)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$5.7 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1]

5) The Outlaw

The Outlaw
The Outlaw poster.jpg
Theatrical Poster
Directed byHoward Hughes
Produced byHoward Hughes
Written byJules Furthman
StarringJack Buetel
Jane Russell
Walter Huston
Thomas Mitchell
CinematographyGregg Toland
Edited byWallace Grissell
Production
company
Howard Hughes Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • February 5, 1943 (United States)
  • April 23, 1946 (Re-release)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,400,000[1]
Box office$5,075,000 (est. US/Canada rentals)[2]

6) The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1946 poster).jpg
Theatrical release poster by Norman Rockwell
Directed byEdmund Goulding
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
Written byLamar Trotti
Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited)
Based onThe Razor's Edge
1944 novel
by W. Somerset Maugham
StarringTyrone Power
Gene Tierney
John Payne
Herbert Marshall
Anne Baxter
Clifton Webb
Music byAlfred Newman
Edmund Goulding (uncredited)
CinematographyArthur C. Miller
Edited byJ. Watson Webb, Jr.
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
December 25, 1946
Running time
145 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.2 million
Box office$5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1][2][3]

7) Notorious

Notorious
Notorious (1946 film poster).jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlfred Hitchcock
Produced byAlfred Hitchcock
Written byBen Hecht
StarringCary Grant
Ingrid Bergman
Claude Rains
Louis Calhern
Leopoldine Konstantin
Music byRoy Webb
CinematographyTed Tetzlaff
Edited byTheron Warth
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • August 15, 1946 (Premiere-New York City)[1]
  • September 6, 1946 (U.S.)[1]
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million[2]
Box office$24.5 million[3]

8) The Yearling

The Yearling
Original movie poster for the film The Yearling.jpg
Theatrical release poster designed by Douglass Crockwell (November 1946)
Directed byClarence Brown
Produced bySidney Franklin
Screenplay byPaul Osborn
Based onThe Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
StarringGregory Peck
Jane Wyman
Claude Jarman Jr.
Music byHerbert Stothart arrangement of Frederick Delius's music
CinematographyArthur Arling
Charles Rosher
Leonard Smith
Edited byHarold F. Kress
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • December 18, 1946
Running time
128 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,883,000[1][2]
Box office$7,599,000[3]

9) Till the Clouds Roll By

Till The Clouds Roll By
Till The Clouds Roll By.jpg
theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Whorf
Uncredited
Produced byArthur Freed
Screenplay byMyles Connolly
Jean Holloway
George Wells
Uncredited:[2]
Fred Finklehoffe
John Lee Mahin
Lemuel Ayers
Hans Willheim
Story byGuy Bolton
Starring
Music byMusic:
Jerome Kern
Lyrics:[3]
CinematographyGeorge J. Folsey
Harry Stradling
Edited byAlbert Akst
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • December 5, 1946
Running time
132 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,316,000[4]
Box office$6,724,000[4]

10) Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia
RoadToUtopia 1946.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHal Walker
Produced byPaul Jones
Screenplay by
Starring
Narrated byRobert Benchley
Music byLeigh Harline
CinematographyLionel Lindon
Edited byStuart Gilmore
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • February 27, 1946
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$5 million (US rentals)[1][2
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