1946 Hollywood Highest Grossing Movies:
Rank | Title | Studio | Box-office gross rental |
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1 | The Best Years of Our Lives | RKO Radio Pictures/Samuel Goldwyn Productions | $10,400,000[1] |
2 | Duel in the Sun | Selznick International Pictures | $10,000,000[1] |
3 | The Jolson Story | Columbia Pictures | $8,000,000[1] |
4 | Blue Skies | Paramount Pictures | $5,700,000[1] |
5 | The Outlaw [nb 1] | RKO Radio Pictures | $5,100,000[1] |
6 | The Razor's Edge | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000[1] |
7 | Notorious | RKO Radio Pictures | $4,800,000[1] |
8 | The Yearling | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $4,768,000[2] |
9 | Till the Clouds Roll By | $4,762,000[2] | |
10 | Road to Utopia | Paramount Pictures | $4,500,000[1] |
1) The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives | |
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Theatrical release poster
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Directed by | William Wyler |
Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
Screenplay by | Robert E. Sherwood |
Based on | Glory for Me 1945 novella by MacKinlay Kantor |
Starring | |
Music by | |
Cinematography | Gregg Toland |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell |
Production
company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
| 172 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.1 million[1] or $3 million[2] |
Box office | $23.7 million[3] |
2) Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun | |
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Directed by | King Vidor |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Written by | Oliver H.P. Garrett (adaptation) David O. Selznick (screenplay) Ben Hecht (uncredited) |
Based on | Duel in the Sun 1944 novel by Niven Busch |
Starring | Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Gregory Peck |
Narrated by | Orson Welles |
Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Cinematography | Lee Garmes Ray Rennahan Harold Rosson |
Edited by | John D. Faure Charles L. Freeman Hal Kern William H. Ziegler |
Production
company | |
Distributed by | Selznick Releasing Organization |
Release date
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Running time
| 145 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $6.48 million[1] |
Box office | $20.4 million[2] |
3) The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story | |
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Directed by | Alfred E. Green |
Produced by | Sidney Skolsky |
Written by | Stephen Longstreet (screenplay) Sidney Buchman (uncredited) Harry Chandlee (adaptation) Andrew Solt (adaptation) |
Starring | Larry Parks Evelyn Keyes William Demarest Bill Goodwin |
Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
Edited by | William A. Lyon |
Production
company |
Columbia Pictures
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
| 130 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[1] |
Box office | $8 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2][3] |
4) Blue Skies
Blue Skies | |
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Directed by | Stuart Heisler |
Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
Written by | Allan G. Scott (adaptation) |
Screenplay by | Arthur Sheekman |
Story by | Irving Berlin |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Fred Astaire |
Music by | Irving Berlin |
Cinematography |
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Edited by | LeRoy Stone |
Production
company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
| 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $5.7 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1] |
5) The Outlaw
The Outlaw | |
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Directed by | Howard Hughes |
Produced by | Howard Hughes |
Written by | Jules Furthman |
Starring | Jack Buetel Jane Russell Walter Huston Thomas Mitchell |
Cinematography | Gregg Toland |
Edited by | Wallace Grissell |
Production
company |
Howard Hughes Productions
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
| 116 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,400,000[1] |
Box office | $5,075,000 (est. US/Canada rentals)[2] |
6) The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge | |
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Theatrical release poster by Norman Rockwell
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Directed by | Edmund Goulding |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Written by | Lamar Trotti Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited) |
Based on | The Razor's Edge 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham |
Starring | Tyrone Power Gene Tierney John Payne Herbert Marshall Anne Baxter Clifton Webb |
Music by | Alfred Newman Edmund Goulding (uncredited) |
Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
Edited by | J. Watson Webb, Jr. |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date
| December 25, 1946 |
Running time
| 145 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.2 million |
Box office | $5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1][2][3] |
7) Notorious
Notorious | |
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Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Written by | Ben Hecht |
Starring | Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains Louis Calhern Leopoldine Konstantin |
Music by | Roy Webb |
Cinematography | Ted Tetzlaff |
Edited by | Theron Warth |
Production
company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date
| |
Running time
| 101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1 million[2] |
Box office | $24.5 million[3] |
8) The Yearling
The Yearling | |
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Theatrical release poster designed by Douglass Crockwell (November 1946)
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Directed by | Clarence Brown |
Produced by | Sidney Franklin |
Screenplay by | Paul Osborn |
Based on | The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
Starring | Gregory Peck Jane Wyman Claude Jarman Jr. |
Music by | Herbert Stothart arrangement of Frederick Delius's music |
Cinematography | Arthur Arling Charles Rosher Leonard Smith |
Edited by | Harold F. Kress |
Production
company | |
Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
Release date
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Running time
| 128 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,883,000[1][2] |
Box office | $7,599,000[3] |
9) Till the Clouds Roll By
Till The Clouds Roll By | |
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Directed by | Richard Whorf Uncredited
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Produced by | Arthur Freed |
Screenplay by | Myles Connolly Jean Holloway George Wells Uncredited:[2] Fred Finklehoffe John Lee Mahin Lemuel Ayers Hans Willheim |
Story by | Guy Bolton |
Starring | |
Music by | Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics:[3]
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Cinematography | George J. Folsey Harry Stradling |
Edited by | Albert Akst |
Production
company | |
Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
Release date
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Running time
| 132 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3,316,000[4] |
Box office | $6,724,000[4] |
10) Road to Utopia
Road to Utopia | |
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Directed by | Hal Walker |
Produced by | Paul Jones |
Screenplay by | |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Robert Benchley |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
Edited by | Stuart Gilmore |
Production
company |
Paramount Pictures
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
| 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $5 million (US rentals)[1][2 |
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