Editing 1930 in film (section)

==Top-grossing films (U.S.)==
The top ten 1930 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1930
|-
! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !!  Domestic rentals
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''1'''
| ''[[Whoopee! (film)|Whoopee!]]''
| [[United Artists]]
| $2,655,000<ref name=Argus1944>{{cite news |author=Jones, Lon|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11816878 |title=Which Cinema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1914?. |newspaper= [[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus]] |location=Melbourne |date=March 4, 1944 |access-date=August 6, 2012 |page=3 Supplement: ''The Argus Weekend'' magazine |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''2'''
|''[[Check and Double Check]]''
| [[RKO Radio Pictures|RKO]]
| $1,751,000<ref name="rko">Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''3''' 
|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
| [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]
| $1,634,000<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;"| '''4'''
|''[[Hell's Angels (film)|Hell's Angels]]''
| United Artists
| $1,600,000<ref name=SpeedOfSoundBook>{{cite book|first=Scott|last=Eyman|title=The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930|date=1997|isbn=978-0-6848-1162-8|quote=''Hell's Angels'' was a financial disaster, grossing $1.6 million domestically, with another million coming in from foreign markets.}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''5'''
|''[[The Big House (1930 film)|The Big House]]''
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]
| $1,279,000<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;"| '''6'''
|''[[Common Clay (1930 film)|Common Clay]]''
| [[Fox Film]]
| $1,246,000<ref name=AllTime/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''7'''
|''[[Min and Bill]]''
| MGM
| $1,223,000<ref name="Mannix"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''8'''
|''[[Song o' My Heart]]''
| Fox Film
| $1,200,000<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 356–357]}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''9'''
|''[[Son of the Gods]]''
| rowspan="2"|[[First National Pictures|First National]]
| $1,069,000<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 10 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''10'''
|''[[The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)|The Dawn Patrol]]''
| $1,061,000<ref name="warners"/>
|}