1932 Top Box Office Movies

This movie page looks at 1932 Top Box Office Movies.  Finding box office information for movies made in the 1930s and 1940s is extremely difficult.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1932 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1932 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1932.  Obviously many movies made in 1931 earned box office dollars in 1932.  On the other side many movies made in 1932 made money in 1933 and later.  This page will looks at 132 1932 Top Box Office Movies.  The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

The following massive table only includes the movies made in 1932 that are in our database.  Since we are constantly adding new movies to our database….this page will quickly become obsolete.  We will try and update this page on a regular basis.

1932’s Grand Hotel

Our UMR Top 50 of 1932

1932 Top Box Office Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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

  • Sort 1932 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1932 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
  • Sort 1932 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • Sort 1932 Top Box Office Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each 1932 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1932 Top Box Office Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Top earners in 1932 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

My Main Sources

Source 1: Eddie Mannix MGM Ledgers

Source 2: C.J. Tevlin RKO Ledgers

Source 3: William Schaefer Warner Brothers Ledgers

Source 4: Year In Review Variety Editions

Source 5: Grand Design: Hollywood As A Modern Business Enterprise 1930-1942 by Tino Balio

Source 6: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon

Source 7:  Wikipedia

Source 8:  IMDb.com

Source 9:  “Revenue sharing and the coming of sound” by H. Mark Glancy

Source 10: Hollywood Power Stats by Christopher Reynolds

1932 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide

34 thoughts on “1932 Top Box Office Movies

  1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    FYI

    Some actors in roles that were unaccredited in 1932.

    1.My Pal, the King & The Beast of the City, Mickey Rooney, unaccredited.

    2.Manhatten Tower, Walter Brennan, unaccredited.

    3.That’s My Boy, John Wayne, unaccredited.

    4.The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood, Boris Karloff, unaccredited.

    5.Winner Takes All, George Raft, unaccredited.

    6.Make Me a Star,Tallulah Bankhead, Claudette Colbert,Gary Cooper,Fredric March,Sylvia Sidney, unaccredited.

    Thx

  2. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    PART 11 OF 11
    Two Hearts Beat as One $1,400.00 Lilian Harvey Wolf Albach-Retty
    Gitta Discovers Her Heart $1,350.00 Gitta Alpar Gustav Fröhlich
    The Scarlet Brand $1,250.00 Betty Mack Bob Custer
    Beyond the Rockies $1,250.00 Rochelle Hudson Tom Keene
    Hell’s Angels (1930) $1,200.00 Jean Harlow Ben Lyon
    Troika $1,200.00 Olga Tschechowa Hans Adalbert Schlettow
    Cornered $1,150.00 Shirley Grey Tim McCoy
    Hidden Valley $1,133.00 Gertrude Messinger Bob Steele
    Riders of the Desert $1,100.00 Gertrude Messinger Bob Steele
    Luise, Queen of Prussia (1931) $1,100.00 Henny Porten Gustaf Gründgens
    Tex Takes a Holiday $1,050.00 Virginia Brown Faire Wallace MacDonald
    The Theft of the Mona Lisa $1,000.00 Rosa Valletti Willi Forst
    Terror of the Garrison $950.00 Lucie Englisch Felix Bressart
    The Pride of the Third Company $950.00 Trude Berliner Heinz Rühmann
    The Lone Trail $950.00 Virginia Brown Faire Rex Lease
    Alias Mary Smith $900.00 Blanche Mehaffey John Darrow
    The Western Code $900.00 Nora Lane Tim McCoy
    Ronny $900.00 Käthe von Nagy Willy Fritsch
    Texas Cyclone $850.00 Shirley Grey Tim McCoy
    I Kiss Your Hand Madame  $800.00 Marlene Dietrich Harry Liedtke
    Fighting for Justice $800.00 Joyce Compton Tim McCoy
    The Riding Tornado $775.00 Shirley Grey Tim McCoy
    Headhunters of Papua $750.00 *(documentary) *
    Daring Danger $750.00 Alberta Vaughn Tim McCoy
    Ghost City $725.00 Helen Foster Bill Cody
    Kameradschaft $700.00 Elisabeth Wendt Alexander Granach
    Pension Schöller (1930) $525.00 Elga Brink Paul Henckels
    Dangers of the Arctic $500.00 *(documentary) *
    The Only Girl $475.00 Lilian Harvey Charles Boyer
    The Texan $475.00 Lucile Browne  Jay Wilsey 
    Tangled Fortunes $450.00 Caryl Lincoln Buzz Barton
    The Night Rider $450.00 Elinor Fair Harry Carey
    A Private Scandal (1931) $450.00 Marian Nixon Lloyd Hughes
    Rendezvous(1930) $450.00 Lucie Englisch Ralph Arthur Roberts
    Crashin’ Broadway $400.00 Doris Hill Rex Bell
    Alibi (1931) $375.00 Elizabeth Allan Austin Trevor
    The Trespasser(1929) $375.00 Gloria Swanson Robert Ames
    Der falsche Feldmarschall $350.00 Fay Wall Vlasta Burian
    Love Comes But Once (1930) $325.00 Mady Christians Gustav Diessl
    Tombstone Canyon $325.00 Cecilia Parker Ken Maynard
    The Wyoming Whirlwind  $325.00 Adele Lacy Lane Chandler
    The Love Command  $250.00 Dolly Haas Gustav Fröhlich
    The Dancer of Sanssouci $250.00 Lil Dagover Otto Gebühr
    The Guardsman (1931) $225.00 Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt

    Thx

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