The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia.
| |||
---|---|---|---|
+... |
The top ten 1940 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Boom Town | MGM | $3,664,000[1] |
2 | The Great Dictator | United Artists | $3,500,000[2] |
3 | Rebecca | United Artists/Selznick International | $3,000,000[3] |
4 | The Philadelphia Story | MGM | $2,374,000[1] |
5 | Strike Up the Band | $2,265,000[1] | |
6 | Northwest Passage | $2,169,000[1] | |
7 | Andy Hardy Meets Debutante | $1,945,000[1] | |
8 | The Fighting 69th | Warner Bros. | $1,822,000[4] |
9 | Santa Fe Trail | $1,748,000[4] | |
10 | Kitty Foyle | RKO | $1,710,000[5][6] |
United States unless stated
United States unless stated
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.