The following massive table comes from the hard work of Mike.  Mike went through old Variety magazines and added up the actual box office grosses.   Mike has gone through the archived Variety magazines and tallied up the grosses from the big cities.  The following table is the end result of all of Mike’s hard work.

Mike’s thoughts on the process and logic of the following box office numbers.

“Here is the estimated domestic box office only for the year 1929.
From highest to lowest in descending order.  Just for fun you could use the multiplers .It would work for some, but not all.”

1929 Actual Box Office Grosses Reported In Variety

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.  Column index.

• Column 1 – is name of the movie
• Column 2 – total actual box office gross from the Top 30 cities in the United States
• Column 3 – using a multiplier of 5 this would be an estimated actual box office gross
• Column 4 – star of the movie
• Column 5 – star of the movie
• Column 6 – average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score per movie