Editing 1930s (section)

===Film===
{{Main|1930s in film}}

* [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s [[groundbreaking]] classic, "[[City Lights]]", was released in 1931.
* Charlie Chaplin's last film featuring his signature character, "[[The Tramp]]", was subsequently released in 1936.
* [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' was released in 1937.
* ''[[The Little Princess (1939 film)|The Little Princess]]'' was released in 1939.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' was released in 1939.
* In the art of filmmaking, the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]] enters a new era after the advent of talking pictures ("[[talkies]]") in 1927 and full-color films in 1930: more than 50 classic films were made in the 1930s; most notable were ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone With The Wind]]'' and ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
* During the 1930s, animated cartoon short films like [[Donald Duck]], [[Betty Boop]], [[Popeye]], [[Looney Tunes]] and [[Merrie Melodies]].
* The new soundtrack and photographic technologies prompted many films to be made or re-made, such as the 1934 version of ''[[Cleopatra (1934 film)|Cleopatra]]'', using lush [[art deco]] sets, which won an [[Academy Award]] (see films 1930–1939 in [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]]).
* [[Universal Pictures]] begins producing its distinctive series of horror films, which came to be known as the Universal Monsters, featuring what would become iconic representations of literary and mythological monsters. The [[horror film]]s (or [[monster movie]]s) included many cult classics, such as ''[[Dracula (1931 English-language film)|Dracula]]'', ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'', ''[[The Mummy (1932 film)|The Mummy]]'', ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', ''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]'', ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', and other films about [[wax museum]]s, [[vampire]]s, and [[zombie]]s, leading to the 1941 film ''[[The Wolf Man (1941 film)|The Wolf Man]]''. These films led to the stardom of stars such as [[Bela Lugosi]], [[Lon Chaney Jr]], and [[Boris Karloff]].
* Recurring series and serials included [[The Three Stooges]], [[Laurel and Hardy]], the [[Marx Brothers]], [[Tarzan]], [[Charlie Chan]] and [[Our Gang]].
* In 1930, Howard Hughes produces ''[[Hell's Angels (film)|Hell's Angels]]'', the first movie [[Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] to be produced outside of a professional studio, independently, and at the time the most expensive movie ever made, costing roughly 4 million dollars and taking four years to make.
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File:TempsModernesTrailer2.jpg|[[Charlie Chaplin]] in a scene from the film ''[[Modern Times (film)|Modern Times]]'' (1936)
File:Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz trailer 2.jpg|[[Judy Garland]] as [[Dorothy Gale]] in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939)
File:Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin City Lights premiere 1931.jpg|[[Albert Einstein]] with [[Charlie Chaplin]] during the premiere of "[[City Lights|City Lights" (1931)]]
File:Disorder in the Court.JPG|[[The Three Stooges]] produced multiple short comedy films with [[Columbia Pictures]] during the decade, making them icons.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-27 |title=History of The Three Stooges: Pop-Culture Icons Forever |url=https://tedium.co/2021/10/22/three-stooges-history/ |access-date=2023-12-27 |website=Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet. |language=en}}</ref>
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====Highest-grossing films====
{{Main|List of highest-grossing films}}
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! scope="col" |Budget
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! scope="row" |[[1930 in film|1930]]
|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
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| align="right" |{{nts|1250000|prefix=$}}
|<ref name="Variety (1932)2" group="#">{{cite news |date=June 21, 1932 |title=Biggest Money Pictures |page=1 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://archive.org/details/variety106-1932-06/page/n120/mode/1up |via=[[Archive.org]]}} Cited in {{cite web |title=Biggest Money Pictures |url=http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708155503/http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/7_v_32_4.htm |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |access-date=July 14, 2011 |publisher=Cinemaweb}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Cormack |first=Mike |title=Ideology and Cinematography in Hollywood, 1930–1939 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-312-10067-4 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=w0JSFWpr2gAC&pg=PA28 28] |quote=Although costing $1250000—a huge sum for any studio in 1929—the film was a financial success. Karl Thiede gives the domestic box-office at $1500000, and the same figure for the foreign gross.}}</ref><ref name="Balio (1996)2" group="#">{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |title=Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-520-20334-1 |volume=5 of History of the American Cinema}}
* ''Cavalcade'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_J9HTLOI08wC&pg=PA182 182]. "Produced by Winfield Sheehan at a cost of $1.25&nbsp;million, ''Cavalcade'' won Academy Awards for best picture, director, art direction and grossed close to $4&nbsp;million during its first release, much of which came from Great Britain and the Empire."
* ''Whoopee'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_J9HTLOI08wC&pg=PA212 212]. "Produced by Sam Goldwyn at a cost of $1&nbsp;million, the picture was an adaptation of a smash musical comedy built around Eddie Cantor...A personality-centered musical, ''Whoopee!'' made little attempt to integrate the comedy routines, songs, and story. Nonetheless, Cantor's feature-film debut grossed over $2.6&nbsp;million worldwide and started a popular series that included ''Palmy Days'' (1931), ''The Kid from Spain'' (1932), and ''Roman Scandals'' (1933)."</ref><ref name="Balio (1976)2" group="#">''Hell's Angels''
* {{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |title=United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |year=1976 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QljKdIYzncoC&pg=PA110 110] |quote=Hughes did not have the "Midas touch" the trade press so often attributed to him. ''Variety'', for example, reported that ''Hell's Angels'' cost $3.2&nbsp;million to make, and by July, 1931, eight months after its release, the production cost had nearly been paid off. Keats claimed the picture cost $4&nbsp;million to make and that it earned twice that much within twenty years. The production cost estimate is probably correct. Hughes worked on the picture for over two years, shooting it first as a silent and then as a talkie. Lewis Milestone said that in between Hughes experimented with shooting it in color as well. But ''Variety''{{'}}s earnings report must be the fabrication of a delirious publicity agent, and Keats' the working of a myth maker. During the seven years it was in United Artists distribution, ''Hell's Angels'' grossed $1.6&nbsp;million in the domestic market, of which Hughes' share was $1.2&nbsp;million. Whatever the foreign gross was, it seems unlikely that it was great enough to earn a profit for the picture.}}</ref>
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! rowspan="2" scope="row" |[[1931 in film|1931]]
|''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|12000000|prefix=$}}{{ref|Rentals|R}} ({{nts|1400000|prefix=$}}){{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|250000|prefix=$}}
|<ref group="#">{{cite web |last=Feaster |first=Felicia |title=Frankenstein (1931) |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/18617 |access-date=July 4, 2011 |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide+rentals%22&pg=PA163 163]}}. "It drew $1.4&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals in its first run versus $1.2&nbsp;million for ''Dracula'', which had opened in February 1931."</ref>
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|''[[City Lights]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|5000000|prefix=$}}{{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|1607351|prefix=$}}
|<ref group="#">{{cite book |last=Vance |first=Jeffrey |title=Chaplin: genius of the cinema |publisher=[[Abrams Books]] |year=2003 |page=[https://archive.org/details/chaplingeniusofc00vanc 208] |quote=Chaplin's negative cost for City Lights was $1,607,351. The film eventually earned him a worldwide profit of $5&nbsp;million ($2&nbsp;million domestically and $3&nbsp;million in foreign distribution), an enormous sum of money for the time.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" |[[1932 in film|1932]]
|''[[The Sign of the Cross (1932 film)|The Sign of the Cross]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|2738993|prefix=$}}{{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|694065|prefix=$}}
|<ref name="Birchard (2009)2" group="#">{{Cite book |last=Birchard |first=Robert S. |title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-8131-3829-9}}
* ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT104 45. The Ten Commandments] (1923). "Cost: $1,475,836.93; Gross: $4,169,798.38"
* ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT138 56. The Sign of the Cross]. "Cost: $694,064.67; Gross: $2,738,993.35 (to 1937)"
* ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT177 68. Samson and Delilah]. "Cost: $3,097,563.05"
* ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT181 69. The Greatest Show on Earth]. "Cost: $3,873,946.50; Gross receipts: $15,797,396.36 (to December 29, 1962)"
* ch. [https://books.google.com/books?id=h8I1dEf7GqIC&pg=PT185 70. The Ten Commandments] (1956). "Cost: $13,272,381.87; Gross receipts: $90,066,230.00 (to June 23, 1979)"</ref><ref name="IMPA (1937)2" group="#">{{cite journal |year=1937 |editor-last=Ramsaye |editor-first=Terry |title=The All-Time Best Sellers – Motion Pictures |journal=International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 |pages=[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up 942–943] |quote=''Kid from Spain'': $2,621,000 (data supplied by Eddie Cantor)}}</ref><ref name="Sedgwick2" group="#">{{cite book |last=Sedgwick |first=John |title=Popular Filmgoing In 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures |publisher=[[University of Exeter Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-85989-660-3 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=YsUfc8Ijb-wC&pg=PA146 146]–148 |quote=Sources: Eddie Mannix Ledger, made available to the author by Mark Glancy...}}
* ''Grand Hotel'': Production Cost $000s: 700; Distribution Cost $000s: 947; U.S. box-office $000s: 1,235; Foreign box-office $000s: 1,359; Total box-office $000s: 2,594; Profit $000s: 947.
* ''The Merry Widow'': Production Cost $000s: 1,605; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,116; U.S. box-office $000s: 861; Foreign box-office $000s: 1,747; Total box-office $000s: 2,608; Profit $000s: -113.
* ''Viva Villa'': Production Cost $000s: 1,022; Distribution Cost $000s: 766; U.S. box-office $000s: 941; Foreign box-office $000s: 934; Total box-office $000s: 1,875; Profit $000s: 87.
* ''Mutiny on the Bounty'': Production Cost $000s: 1,905; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,646; U.S. box-office $000s: 2,250; Foreign box-office $000s: 2,210; Total box-office $000s: 4,460; Profit $000s: 909.
* ''San Francisco'': Production Cost $000s: 1,300; Distribution Cost $000s: 1,736; U.S. box-office $000s: 2,868; Foreign box-office $000s: 2,405; Total box-office $000s: 5,273; Profit $000s: 2,237.</ref><ref name="shanghai2" group="#">''Shanghai Express''
* {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA165 165]}}. "''Shanghai Express'' was Dietrich's biggest hit in America, bringing in $1.5&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals."</ref>
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! rowspan="4" scope="row" |[[1933 in film|1933]]
|''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|{{#expr:1856000+306000+685000+2500000}}|prefix=$}}{{ref|Rentals|R}} ({{nts|1856000|prefix=$}}){{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|672,255.75|prefix=$}}
|<ref group="#">''King Kong''
* {{cite journal |last=Jewel |first=Richard |year=1994 |title=RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951 |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=14 |issue=1 |page=39 |quote=1933 release: $1,856,000; 1938 release: $306,000; 1944 release: $685,000}}
* {{cite web |title=King Kong (1933)&nbsp;– Notes |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2690/king-kong#notes |access-date=January 7, 2012 |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |quote=1952 release: $2,500,000; budget: $672,254.75}}</ref>
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|''[[I'm No Angel]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|{{#expr:2250000+1000000}}|prefix=$}}+{{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|200000|prefix=$}}
|<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=I'm No Angel (1933)&nbsp;– Notes |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/79021/im-no-angel#notes |access-date=January 7, 2012 |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |quote=According to a modern source, it had a gross earning of $2,250,000 on the North American continent, with over a million more earned internationally.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Finler|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&q=angel%20rock-bottom%20cost&pg=PA188 188]}}. "The studio released its most profitable pictures of the decade in 1933, ''She Done Him Wrong'' and ''I'm No Angel'', written by and starring Mae West. Produced at a rock-bottom cost of $200,000 each, they undoubtedly helped Paramount through the worst patch in its history..."</ref>
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|''[[Cavalcade (1933 film)|Cavalcade]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|3000000|prefix=$}}–{{nts|4000000}}{{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|1116000|prefix=$}}
|<ref name="Solomon (2011)2" group="#">{{cite book |last=Solomon |first=Aubrey |title=The Fox Film Corporation, 1915–1935: A History and Filmography |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7864-6286-5}}
* ''Way Down East'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA52 52]. "D.W. Griffith's ''Way Down East'' (1920) was projected to return rentals of $4,000,000 on an $800,000 negative. This figure was based on the amounts earned from its roadshow run, coupled with its playoff in the rest of the country's theaters. Griffith had originally placed the potential film rental at $3,000,000 but, because of the success of the various roadshows that were running the $4,000,000 total was expected. The film showed a profit of $615,736 after just 23 weeks of release on a gross of $2,179,613."
* ''What Price Glory?'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&q=What%20Price%20Glory%20hit%20the%20jackpot%20with%20massive%20world%20rentals%20of%20%242%2C429%2C000%2C%20the%20highest%20figure%20in%20the%20history%20of%20the%20company.%20Since%20it%20was%20also%20the%20most%20expensive%20production%20of%20the%20year%20at%20%24817%2C000%20the%20profit%20was%20still%20a%20healthy%20%24796%2C000&pg=PA122 112]. "What Price Glory hit the jackpot with massive world rentals of $2,429,000, the highest figure in the history of the company. Since it was also the most expensive production of the year at $817,000 the profit was still a healthy $796,000..."
* ''Cavalcade'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA170 170]. "The actual cost of ''Cavalcade'' was $1,116,000 and it was most definitely not guaranteed a success. In fact, if its foreign grosses followed the usual 40 percent of domestic returns, the film would have lost money. In a turnaround, the foreign gross was almost double the $1,000,000 domestic take to reach total world rentals of $3,000,000 and Fox's largest profit of the year at $664,000."
* ''State Fair'': p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&pg=PA170 170]. "''State Fair'' did turn out to be a substantial hit with the help of Janet Gaynor boosting Will Rogers back to the level of money-making star. Its prestige engagements helped raked in a total $1,208,000 in domestic rentals. Surprisingly, in foreign countries unfamiliar with state fairs, it still earned a respectable $429,000. With its total rentals, the film ended up showing a $398,000 profit."</ref><ref name="Balio (1996)2" group="#" />
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|''[[She Done Him Wrong]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|3000000|prefix=$}}+{{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|274076|prefix=$}}
|<ref name="BlockWilson1732" group="#">{{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=She Done Him Wrong |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA173 173] |year=2010 |quote=The worldwide rentals of over $3&nbsp;million keep the lights on at Paramount, which did not shy away from selling the movie's sex appeal.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref name="Phillips (2008)2" group="#">{{cite book |last=Phillips |first=Kendall R. |title=Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-56720-724-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ViQzDunkm9QC&pg=PA26 26] |quote=The reaction to West's first major film, however, was not exclusively negative. Made for a mere $200,000, the film would rake in a healthy $2&nbsp;million in the United States and an additional million in overseas markets.}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA135 135]}}. "Total production cost: $274,076 (Unadjusted $s)."</ref>
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! rowspan="2" scope="row" |[[1934 in film|1934]]
|''[[The Merry Widow (1934 film)|The Merry Widow]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|{{#expr:2608000}}|prefix=$}}{{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|1605000|prefix=$}}
|<ref name="Turk2" group="#">{{cite book |last=Turk |first=Edward Baron |title=Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-520-22253-3 |orig-date=1st. pub. 1998}}
* ''The Merry Widow'': p. [[iarchive:hollywooddivabio0000turk/page/361|361]] Cost: $1,605,000. Earnings: domestic $861,000; foreign $1,747,000; total $2,608,000. Loss: $113,000.
* ''San Francisco'': p. [[iarchive:hollywooddivabio0000turk/page/364|364]] Cost: $1,300,000. Earnings: domestic $2,868,000; foreign $2,405,000; total $5,273,000. Profit: $2,237,000. [Reissues in 1938–39 and 1948–49 brought profits of $124,000 and $647,000 respectively.]</ref><ref name="Sedgwick2" group="#" />
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|''[[It Happened One Night]]''
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| align="right" |{{nts|325000|prefix=$}}
|<ref group="#">{{cite magazine |date=November 7, 1962 |title=Wall St. Researchers' Cheery Tone |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=7}}</ref><ref group="#">{{Cite book |last=Dick |first=Bernard F. |title=Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-60473-087-6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=P3P9efYabOQC&pg=PA79 79] |quote=Although Columbia's president, Harry Cohn, had strong reservations about ''It Happened One Night'', he also knew that it would not bankrupt the studio; the rights were only $5,000, and the budget was set at $325,000, including the performers' salaries.}}</ref>
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! scope="row" |[[1935 in film|1935]]
|''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''
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|<ref name="Sedgwick2" group="#" />
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! scope="row" |[[1936 in film|1936]]
|''[[San Francisco (1936 film)|San Francisco]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|{{#expr:5273000+124000+647000}}|prefix=$}}+{{ref|Rentals|R}} ({{nts|5273000|prefix=$}}){{ref|Rentals|R}}
| align="right" |{{nts|1300000|prefix=$}}
|<ref name="Turk2" group="#" /><ref name="Sedgwick2" group="#" />
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! scope="row" |[[1937 in film|1937]]
|''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]''
| align="right" |{{nts|{{#expr:418000000}}|prefix=$}}+{{ref|Snow White|S7}} ({{nts|{{#expr:4200000+4300000}}|prefix=$}}){{ref|Rentals|R}}
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|<ref group="#">''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''
* {{cite book |last=Monaco |first=Paul |title=A History of American Movies: A Film-By-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8108-7434-3 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tgnKY6k5tHYC&pg=PA54 54] |quote=Considered a highly risky gamble when the movie was in production in the mid-1930s, by the fiftieth anniversary of its 1937 premiere ''Snow White''{{'}}s earnings exceeded $330&nbsp;million.}}
* {{cite book |last1=Wilhelm |first1=Henry Gilmer |url=https://archive.org/details/permanencecareof00henr/page/359 |title=The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures |last2=Brower |first2=Carol |publisher=Preservation Pub |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-911515-00-8 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0OtTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22snow+white%22+million+worldwide+grosses 359] |quote=In only 2 months after the 1987 re-release, the film grossed another $45&nbsp;million—giving it a total gross to date of about $375&nbsp;million!}}
* {{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1987 Re-issue) |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9400/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1987-re-issue |access-date=May 29, 2016 |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |quote=North American box-office: $46,594,719}}
* {{cite web |title=Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1993 Re-issue) |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/9401/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-1993-re-issue |access-date=May 29, 2016 |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]] |quote=North American box-office: $41,634,791}}</ref><ref name="Snow White & Pinocchio2" group="#">''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and ''Pinocchio''
* {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}

:: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=When%20the%20budget%20rose%20from%20%24250%2C000%20to%20%241%2C488%2C423&pg=PA207 207]. "When the budget rose from $250,000 to $1,488,423 he even mortgaged his own home and automobile. Disney had bet more than his company on the success of ''Snow White''."
:: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22%248%20million%20in%20worldwide%20rentals%22%20george%20lucas%20blockbusting&pg=PA237 237]. "By the end of 1938, it had grossed more than $8&nbsp;million in worldwide rentals and was ranked at the time as the second-highest-grossing film after the 1925 epic ''Ben-Hur''".
:: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22foreign%20rentals%22&pg=PA255 255]. "On its initial release ''Pinocchio'' brought in only $1.6&nbsp;million in domestic rentals (compared with ''Snow White''{{'}}s $4.2&nbsp;million) and $1.9&nbsp;million in foreign rentals (compared with ''Snow White''{{'}}s $4.3&nbsp;million)."
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! scope="row" |[[1938 in film|1938]]
|''[[You Can't Take It With You (film)|You Can't Take It With You]]''
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|<ref group="#">1938
* ''You Can't Take It With You'':{{cite web |title=You Can't Take It With You Premieres |url=http://focusfeatures.com/flashback?article_url=you_can_t_take_it_with_you_premieres |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6AeWlL1hk?url=http://focusfeatures.com/flashback?article_url=you_can_t_take_it_with_you_premieres |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |publisher=[[Focus Features]] |quote=''You Can't Take It With You'' received excellent reviews, won Best Picture and Best Director at the 1938 Academy Awards, and earned over $5&nbsp;million worldwide.}}{{cbignore}}
* ''Boys Town'': {{citation |last=Block |first=Alex Ben |title=Boys Town |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&pg=PA215 215] |year=2010 |quote=The film quickly became a smash nationwide, making a profit of over $2&nbsp;million on worldwide rentals of $4&nbsp;million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.
* ''The Adventures of Robin Hood'': {{cite journal |last=Glancy |first=H. Mark |year=1995 |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=1 |issue=15 |pages=55–60 |doi=10.1080/01439689500260031 |quote=$3.981&nbsp;million.}}
* ''Alexander's Ragtime Band'': {{citation |last=Block |first=Hayley Taylor |title=Alexander's Ragtime Band |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vpbuSXSSqdkC&q=%22worldwide%20rentals%22&pg=PA213 213] |year=2010 |quote=Once the confusion cleared, however, the film blossomed into a commercial success, with a profit of $978,000 on worldwide rentals of $3.6&nbsp;million.}} In: {{harvnb|Block|Wilson|2010}}.</ref><ref group="#">{{cite magazine |last=Chartier |first=Roy |date=September 6, 1938 |title=You Can't Take It With You |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117796537 |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=September 13, 2011}}</ref>
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|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''
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| align="right" |{{nts|3900000|prefix=$}}–{{nts|4250000}}
|<ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Gone with the Wind |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1939/0GWTW.php |access-date=February 8, 2013 |website=The Numbers |publisher=Nash Information Services. LLC}}</ref><ref group="#">{{cite web |title=Gone with the Wind |url=http://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/4094/gone-with-the-wind |access-date=May 29, 2016 |website=[[Boxoffice (magazine)|Boxoffice]]}}</ref><ref group="#">{{Mojo title|id=gonewiththewind|title=Gone with the Wind}}</ref><ref group="#">{{harvnb|Hall|Neale|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA283 283]}} ."The final negative cost of ''Gone with the Wind'' (''GWTW'') has been variously reported between $3.9&nbsp;million and $4.25&nbsp;million."</ref>
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