Editing 1940 in film (section)

==Top-grossing films (U.S.)==
The top ten 1940 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1940
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! Rank !! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals
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! style="text-align:center;"| '''1'''
| ''[[Boom Town (film)|Boom Town]]''
| [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]
| $3,664,000<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.</ref>
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! style="text-align:center;"| '''2'''
| ''[[The Great Dictator]]''
| [[United Artists]]
| $3,500,000<ref name=HollywoodBoxOfficeHitsBook>[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodreporte0000sack/page/28/mode/2up Susan Sackett, ''The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits'' Billboard Books, 1996 p 28]</ref>
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! style="text-align:center;"| '''3'''
|''[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]]''
| United Artists/[[Selznick International Pictures|Selznick International]]
| $3,000,000<ref name=HitchcockBook>{{cite book|first=James|last=Chapman|title=Hitchcock and the Spy Film|date=2018|isbn=978-1-78076-844-1|quote=Although his most successful films of the war years were Selznick pictures – ''Rebecca'' (with a domestic box office gross of $3 million) and ''Spellbound'' ($4.9 million), with ''Rebecca'' also winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 – Hitchcock seems on the whole to have preferred his other assignments where he evidently enjoyed greater creative freedom.}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''4'''
| ''[[North West Mounted Police (film)|North West Mounted Police]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $2,750,000<ref name=VarietySep41>{{cite news| url= https://archive.org/details/variety143-1941-09/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22north+west+mounted+police%22| title= DeMille's Topper| work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]| date=3 September 1941| page=24}}</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''5'''
| ''[[Strike Up the Band (film)|Strike Up the Band]]''
| rowspan="3"|MGM
| $2,265,000<ref name="Mannix"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''6'''
| ''[[Northwest Passage (film)|Northwest Passage]]''
| $2,169,000<ref name="Mannix"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''7'''
| ''[[Andy Hardy Meets Debutante]]''
| $1,945,000<ref name="Mannix"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''8'''
| ''[[The Fighting 69th]]''
| rowspan="2"|[[Warner Bros.]]
| $1,822,000<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 20 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''9'''
| ''[[Santa Fe Trail (film)|Santa Fe Trail]]''
| $1,748,000<ref name="warners"/>
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| '''10'''
| ''[[Kitty Foyle (film)|Kitty Foyle]]''
|[[RKO Radio Pictures|RKO]]
| $1,710,000<ref name=tevlin>{{cite journal|first=Richard B.|last=Jewell|title=RKO Film Grosses, 1929-1951: the C.J. Tevlin ledger|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=14|number= 1|year=1994|pages=37–49|doi=10.1080/01439689400260031}}</ref><ref name=tevlina>{{cite journal|first=Richard B.|last=Jewell|title=Appendix 1|journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television|volume=14|number= S1|year=1994|pages=1–11|doi=10.1080/01439689408604545}}</ref>
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