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==Top-grossing films (U.S.)== The top ten 1929 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: {| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+ Highest-grossing films of 1929 |- ! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''1''' |''[[The Broadway Melody]]'' | [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] | $2,808,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation|title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger|publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study|place=Los Angeles, California}}.</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''2''' |''[[The Cock-Eyed World]]'' | [[Fox Film]] | $2,700,000<ref name=Finler>{{cite book |last=Finler |first=Joel Waldo |year=2003 |title=The Hollywood Story |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-66-6 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA356#v=twopage 356β357]}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''3''' |''[[Gold Diggers of Broadway]]'' | [[Warner Bros.]] | $2,540,000<ref name="warners">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 7 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''4''' |''[[Sunny Side Up (1929 film)|Sunny Side Up]]'' | Fox Film | $2,190,000<ref name=AllTime>{{cite news|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=All-Time Film Rental Champs|date=October 15, 1990|page=M150}}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''5''' |''[[Rio Rita (1929 film)|Rio Rita]]'' | [[RKO Radio Pictures|RKO]] | $1,775,000<ref name="rko">Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931β1951', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p55</ref> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''6''' |''[[On with the Show! (1929 film)|On with the Show!]]'' | rowspan="2"|Warner Bros. | $1,741,000<ref name="warners"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''7''' |''[[Say It with Songs]]'' | $1,715,000<ref name="warners"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''8''' |''[[Show Boat (1929 film)|Show Boat]]'' | [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] | $1,643,000<ref name="AllTime"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''9''' |''[[The Desert Song (1929 film)|The Desert Song]]'' | Warner Bros. | $1,549,000<ref name="warners"/> |- ! style="text-align:center;"| '''10''' |''[[The Hollywood Revue|The Hollywood Revue of 1929]]'' | MGM | $1,527,000<ref name="Mannix"/> |}
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