Editing 1931 in film (section)

==Top-grossing films (U.S.)==
The top ten 1931 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1931
|-
! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''1'''
|''[[City Lights]]''
| [[United Artists]]
| $2,000,000<ref name=Lucas2010>{{cite book |last1=Block |first1=Alex Ben |last2=Wilson |first2=Lucy Autry |title=George Lucas's blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success |url=https://archive.org/details/georgelucassbloc00alex/page/160/mode/2up?q=City+Lights |url-access=registration |date=March 30, 2010 |pages=160–161 |publisher=[[It Books]] |isbn=978-0-0619-6345-2}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''2'''
|''[[Trader Horn (1931 film)|Trader Horn]]''
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]
| $1,642,000<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;"| '''3'''
|''[[Palmy Days]]''
| United Artists
| $1,601,000<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;"| '''4'''
|''[[The Man Who Came Back (1931 film)|The Man Who Came Back]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[Fox Film]]
| $1,400,000{{sfn|Finler|2003|pp=356-357}}
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''5'''
| ''[[Merely Mary Ann]]''
| $1,300,000{{sfn|Finler|2003|pp=356-357}}
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''6'''
|''[[Arrowsmith (film)|Arrowsmith]]''<br>''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''
| United Artists<br>[[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $1,250,000<ref name="quig">[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up/search/%22box+office%22 Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", ''International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938)'' (pg. 942)]; accessed April 19, 2014</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''7'''
|''[[A Connecticut Yankee (film)|A Connecticut Yankee]]''
| Fox Film
| $1,200,000<ref name="quig"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''8'''
|''[[Cimarron (1931 film)|Cimarron]]''
| [[RKO Radio Pictures|RKO]]
| $1,122,000<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;"| '''9'''
|''[[Bad Girl (1931 film)|Bad Girl]]''
| Fox Film
| $1,100,000{{sfn|Finler|2003|pp=356-357}}
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''10'''
|''[[Possessed (1931 film)|Possessed]]''
| MGM
| $1,030,000<ref name="Mannix"/>
|}