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.
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
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
PART 10 OF 11
The Office Girl/Sunshine Susie $3,300.00 Renate Müller Jack Hulbert
They Never Come Back $3,300.00 Dorothy Sebastian Regis Toomey
Escapade $3,275.00 Sally Blane Jameson Thomas
The Blue Danube $3,250.00 Brigitte Helm Joseph Schildkraut
A Night Like This $3,250.00 Winifred Shotter Tom Walls
Between Fighting Men $3,150.00 Ruth Hall Ken Maynard
Dynamite Ranch $3,100.00 Ruth Hall Ken Maynard
Broadway to Cheyenne $3,034.00 Marceline Day Rex Bell
Avenging Seas/The Happy Ending $3,000.00 Daphne Courtney George Barraud
Illegal $3,000.00 Isobel Elsom Ivor Barnard
The Big Stampede $3,000.00 Mae Madison John Wayne
Woman in Bondage $3,000.00 Betty Stockfeld Owen Nares
Sunset Trail $2,850.00 Ruth Hiatt Ken Maynard
The Flaming Signal (1932) $2,825.00 Marceline Day John David Horsley
A Scarlet Week-End $2,700.00 Dorothy Revier Theodore von Eltz
Spirit of the West $2,675.00 Doris Hill Hoot Gibson
Gold $2,575.00 Alice Day Jack Hoxie
The Reckoning $2,575.00 Sally Blane James Murray
Big Town $2,500.00 Frances Dade Lester Vail
Trapped in a Submarine $2,450.00 * John Batten
Partners $2,450.00 Nancy Drexel Tom Keene
End of the Trail $2,300.00 Luana Walters Tim McCoy
Arm of the Law $2,250.00 Marceline Day Rex Bell
Exposed $2,250.00 Barbara Kent William Collier Jr.
Sundown Rider $2,150.00 Barbara Weeks Buck Jones
The Man from New Mexico $2,150.00 Caryl Lincoln Tom Tyler
Haunted Gold $2,137.00 Sheila Terry John Wayne
The Man from Arizona $2,050.00 Naomi Judge Rex Bell
Midnight Morals $2,050.00 Alberta Vaughn Rex Lease
The Black Hussar/Der schwarze Husar $2,000.00 Mady Christians Conrad Veidt
Ridin’ for Justice $1,825.00 Mary Doran Buck Jones
Scanties of 1933 $1,800.00 *(documentary) *
Come On, Tarzan $1,800.00 Merna Kennedy Ken Maynard
Gorilla Ship $1,750.00 Vera Reynolds Ralph Ince
Ride Him, Cowboy $1,637.00 Ruth Hall John Wayne
Mason of the Mounted $1,600.00 Nancy Drexel Bill Cody
Passport to Paradise $1,600.00 Blanche Mehaffey Jack Mulhall
The Man from Hell’s Edges $1,500.00 Nancy Drexel Bob Steele
The Birth of a Nation (1915) $1,500.00 Lillian Gish Henry B. Walthall
Tempest $1,500.00 Camilla Horn John Barrymore
Road to Life $1,500.00 Mariya Andropova Nikolay Batalov
Get That Girl $1,500.00 Shirley Grey Richard Talmadge
Vanishing Men $1,500.00 Adele Lacy Tom Tyler
Hello Trouble $1,450.00 Lina Basquette Buck Jones
Lucky Larrigan $1,433.00 Helen Foster Rex Bell
Devil’s Playground $1,400.00 *(documentary) *
Love in High Gear $1,400.00 Alberta Vaughn Harrison Ford
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) $1,400.00 May McAvoy Ramon Novarro
The Saddle Buster $1,400.00 Helen Foster Tom Keene
Ghost Valley $1,400.00 Merna Kennedy Tom Keene
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
PART 9 OF 11
The Stoker $8,083.00 Dorothy Burgess Monte Blue
Thark $8,000.00 Mary Brough Tom Walls
Malay Nights $7,750.00 Dorothy Burgess Johnny Mack Brown
Whistlin’ Dan $7,750.00 Joyzelle Joyner Ken Maynard
The Wife’s Family (1931) $7,700.00 Muriel Angelus Gene Gerrard
Without Honor $7,400.00 Mae Busch Harry Carey
Murder at Dawn $7,350.00 Josephine Dunn Jack Mulhall
Texas Gun Fighter $7,325.00 Sheila Bromley Ken Maynard
The Face on the Barroom Floor $7,050.00 Dulcie Cooper Bramwell Fletcher
Gambling Sex $7,050.00 Ruth Hall Grant Withers
Cannonball Express $6,950.00 Lucile Browne Rex Lease
The Girl from Calgary $6,800.00 Fifi D’Orsay Paul Kelly
The Local Bad Man $6,775.00 Sally Blane Hoot Gibson
Sally of the Subway $6,350.00 Dorothy Revier Jack Mulhall
Hell Fire Austin $6,300.00 Ivy Merton Ken Maynard
The Widow in Scarlet $5,850.00 Dorothy Revier Kenneth Harlan
Sister to Judas $5,750.00 Claire Windsor Holmes Herbert
The Gay Buckaroo $5,725.00 Conchita Montenegro Hoot Gibson
Hidden Gold $5,717.00 Judith Barrie Tom Mix
McKenna of the Mounted $5,700.00 Greta Granstedt Buck Jones
Stowaway $5,200.00 Fay Wray Leon Ames
Let Us Be Gay (1930) $5,150.00 Norma Shearer Rod La Rocque
Michael and Mary (1931) $5,100.00 Edna Best Herbert Marshall
The Boiling Point $5,017.00 Helen Foster Hoot Gibson
Earl Carroll’s Vanities $5,000.00 * *
Life Goes On $5,000.00 Betty Stockfeld Hugh Wakefield
A Man’s Land $4,800.00 Marion Shilling Hoot Gibson
Good Time Girl $4,750.00 ? ?
Bachelor’s Folly $4,750.00 Edna Best Herbert Marshall
Cain $4,600.00 Rama-Tahé Thomy Bourdelle
South of Santa Fe $4,550.00 Janis Elliott Bob Steele
South of the Rio Grande $4,550.00 Mona Maris Buck Jones
Out of Singapore $4,400.00 Dorothy Burgess Noah Beery
Behind Stone Walls $4,375.00 Priscilla Dean Edward J. Nugent
Tons of Money $4,250.00 Yvonne Arnaud Ralph Lynn
Hell’s Headquarters $4,225.00 Barbara Weeks Jack Mulhall
My Pal, the King $4,200.00 Noel Francis Tom Mix
Sinister Hands $4,150.00 Phyllis Barrington Jack Mulhall
Tangled Destinies $4,100.00 Doris Hill Gene Morgan
Dynamite Denny $4,000.00 Blanche Mehaffey Jay Wilsey
Border Devils $3,950.00 Kathleen Collins Harry Carey
Viennese Waltz $3,900.00 Lee Parry Michael Bohnen
Beauty Parlor $3,750.00 Barbara Kent John Harron
Wild Women of Borneo $3,700.00 *(DOCUMENTARY) *
Law of the West $3,650.00 Nancy Drexel Bob Steele
Cowboy Counsellor $3,575.00 Sheila Bromley Hoot Gibson
Self Made Lady $3,500.00 Heather Angel Henry Wilcoxon
The Drifter $3,375.00 Phyllis Barrington William Farnum
The Heart Punch $3,350.00 Marion Shilling Lloyd Hughes
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
PART 8 OF 11
Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt $19,200.00 Jane Welsh Arthur Wontner
Racing Youth $19,050.00 Louise Fazenda Slim Summerville
Hearts of Humanity $19,025.00 Claudia Dell Jean Hersholt
South Sea Adventures $18,900.00 *(documentary) *
Virgins of Bali $18,750.00 *(Documentary ) *
Aren’t We All? $18,487.00 Gertrude Lawrence Hugh Wakefield
The Hound of the Baskervilles $18,225.00 Heather Angel John Stuart
The Faithful Heart $17,800.00 Edna Best Herbert Marshall
Shop Angel $17,108.00 Marion Shilling Holmes Herbert
The Frightened Lady $17,000.00 Emlyn Williams Norman McKinnel
Drifting Souls $16,950.00 Lois Wilson Theodore von Eltz
Exposure $16,850.00 Lila Lee Walter Byron
Behind Jury Doors $16,800.00 Helen Chandler William Collier Jr.
Bachelor’s Folly $16,717.00 Edna Best Herbert Marshall
Two Hearts in Waltz Time $16,700.00 Gretl Theimer Walter Janssen
Guilty or Not Guilty $15,875.00 Betty Compson Tom Douglas
Sin’s Pay Day $15,250.00 Dorothy Revier Forrest Stanley
The Ghost Train $15,250.00 Ann Todd Jack Hulbert
Police Court /Fame Street $15,100.00 Aileen Pringle Henry B. Walthall
Isle of Paradise $14,900.00 *(DOCUMENTARY) *
A Strange Adventure $14,083.00 June Clyde Regis Toomey
The Honor of the Press $14,025.00 Rita La Roy Edward J. Nugent
No Living Witness $13,975.00 Barbara Kent Gilbert Roland
File 113 $13,925.00 Mary Nolan Lew Cody
The Vanishing Frontier $13,850.00 Evalyn Knapp Johnny Mack Brown
The Racing Strain $13,550.00 Phyllis Barrington Wallace Reid Jr.
White Devil/Burkhewala $13,100.00 Nurjahan Master Vithal
The King Murder $12,665.00 Natalie Moorhead Conway Tearle
The Ringer $12,600.00 Maria Matray Paul Richter
Women Won’t Tell $12,400.00 Sarah Padden Otis Harlan
Pride of the Legion $11,500.00 Barbara Kent Victor Jory
The Big Parade (1925) $11,000.00 Renée Adorée John Gilbert
The Amazon Head Hunters $10,533.00 *(documentary) *
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case $10,367.00 Isla Bevan Arthur Wontner
Probation $10,225.00 Sally Blane John Darrow
Discarded Lovers/Hollywood Murder Mystert $10,108.00 Natalie Moorhead Russell Hopton
The Savage Girl $10,050.00 Rochelle Hudson Walter Byron
Docks of San Francisco $9,900.00 Mary Nolan John Davidson
The Valiant (1929) $9,750.00 Marguerite Churchill Paul Muni
Thrill of Youth $9,700.00 June Clyde Allen Vincent
The Monster Walks $9,200.00 Vera Reynolds Rex Lease
Flaming Guns $9,100.00 Ruth Hall Tom Mix
The Fourth Horseman $9,000.00 Margaret Lindsay Tom Mix
The Penal Code $8,550.00 Helen Cohan Regis Toomey
Joyless Street(1925) $8,500.00 Greta Garbo Werner Krauss
Klondike /The Doctor’s Sacrifice $8,400.00 Thelma Todd Lyle Talbot
Flames $8,300.00 Noel Francis Johnny Mack Brown
Love Bound $8,175.00 Natalie Moorhead Jack Mulhall
White Eagle $8,100.00 Barbara Weeks Buck Jones
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
PART 7 OF 11
Heritage of the Desert $72,800.00 Sally Blane Randolph Scott
The Unwritten Law $69,925.00 Greta Nissen Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher
Destry Rides Again $67,700.00 Claudia Dell Tom Mix
Vanity Fair $67,683.00 Myrna Loy Conway Tearle
The Last Man $67,200.00 Constance Cummings Charles Bickford
Breach of Promise $66,450.00 Mae Clarke Chester Morris
Fast Companions $65,967.00 Maureen O’Sullivan Tom Brown
Robbers’ Roost $55,567.00 Maureen O’Sullivan George O’Brien
Vanity Street $53,083.00 Helen Chandler Charles Bickford
The Iron Master $51,350.00 Lila Lee Reginald Denny
Unholy Love $51,300.00 Lila Lee H.B. Warner
Trailing the Killer $48,400.00 * Francis McDonald
Speed Demon $47,925.00 Joan Marsh William Collier Jr.
Self Defense $46,350.00 Pauline Frederick Theodore von Eltz
Virtue $45,475.00 Carole Lombard Pat O’Brien
Igloo $45,400.00 *(documentary) *
The Golden West $44,540.00 Janet Chandler George O’Brien
The Midnight Lady $44,000.00 Claudia Dell John Darrow
Flaming Gold $41,550.00 Mae Clarke William Boyd
Deception $39,838.00 Thelma Todd Leo Carrillo
The County Fair $39,825.00 Marion Shilling Hobart Bosworth
Forbidden Company $38,350.00 Sally Blane John Darrow
Follow the Leader (1930) $35,333.00 Ginger Rogers Ed Wynn
Hypnotized $35,300.00 Maria Alba George Moran
Blame the Woman $34,300.00 Benita Hume Adolphe Menjou
The Secrets of Wu Sin $34,050.00 Lois Wilson Grant Withers
Slightly Married $32,917.00 Evalyn Knapp Walter Byron
Manhattan Tower $32,887.00 Mary Brian James Hall
Magic Night $30,550.00 Anna Neagle Jack Buchanan
The Phantom Express $29,225.00 Sally Blane William Collier Jr.
The Rider of Death Valley $29,125.00 Lois Wilson Tom Mix
The Jungle Killer $28,800.00 *(documentary) *
Men Are Such Fools $27,500.00 Vivienne Osborne Leo Carrillo
The Seventh Commandment $26,700.00 Victoria Vinton Stuart James
High Speed $26,600.00 Loretta Sayers Buck Jones
Night Patrol $26,500.00 Betty Bronson Regis Toomey
With Williamson Beneath the Sea $26,450.00 *(documentary) *
Her Mad Night $25,950.00 Irene Rich Conway Tearle
Red-Haired Alibi $25,700.00 Merna Kennedy Theodore von Eltz
The Midnight Warning $25,233.00 Claudia Dell William ‘Stage’ Boyd
Strange Justice $23,900.00 Marian Marsh Reginald Denny
The Silver Lining $23,683.00 Maureen O’Sullivan John Warburton
A Parisian Romance $23,333.00 Marion Shilling Lew Cody
Wild Horse Mesa $23,083.00 Sally Blane Randolph Scott
Cross-Examination $22,225.00 Sally Blane H.B. Warner
The Texas Bad Man $21,550.00 Lucille Powers Tom Mix
Officer Thirteen $20,675.00 Lila Lee Monte Blue
Avalanche (1928) $20,600.00 Doris Hill Jack Holt
Men of America $20,500.00 Dorothy Wilson William Boyd
Hi Mr. Cogerson,
PART 6 OF 11
Reserved for Ladies $151,158.00 Benita Hume Leslie Howard
Crooner $150,833.00 Ann Dvorak David Manners
Central Park $150,400.00 Joan Blondell Wallace Ford
Beauty and the Boss $149,475.00 Marian Marsh David Manners
The Night Mayor $146,525.00 Evalyn Knapp Lee Tracy
Radio Patrol $144,400.00 Lila Lee Robert Armstrong
Hell’s Highway $144,200.00 Rochelle Hudson Richard Dix
Man Against Woman $142,425.00 Lillian Miles Jack Holt
The Thirteenth Guest $136,650.00 Ginger Rogers Lyle Talbot
Racetrack $135,400.00 Kay Hammond Leo Carrillo
Uptown New York $133,983.00 Shirley Grey Jack Oakie
The Famous Ferguson Case $129,450.00 Joan Blondell Grant Mitchell
No Greater Love $127,450.00 Beryl Mercer Dickie Moore
The Unexpected Father $123,750.00 Zasu Pitts Slim Summerville
Cock of the Air $123,650.00 Billie Dove Chester Morris
Lena Rivers $123,100.00 Charlotte Henry Morgan Galloway
By Whose Hand? $121,600.00 Barbara Weeks Ben Lyon
Wild Girl/Salomy Jane’s kiss $121,242.00 Joan Bennett Charles Farrell
The Secrets of the French Police $118,950.00 Gwili Andre Gregory Ratoff
Forgotten Commandments $116,950.00 Sari Maritza Gene Raymond
This Sporting Age $116,750.00 Evalyn Knapp Jack Holt
Almost Married $116,250.00 Violet Heming Ralph Bellamy
The Sport Parade $116,225.00 Marian Marsh Joel McCrea
Goona-Goona/Kriss. the Sword of Death $114,992.00 * *
Three Wise Girls $114,125.00 Jean Harlow Walter Byron
The Roadhouse Murder $113,300.00 Dorothy Jordan Eric Linden
Big City Blues $112,450.00 Joan Blondell Eric Linden
Hollywood Speaks $110,700.00 Genevieve Tobin Pat O’Brien
The Heart of New York $109,150.00 Ruth Hall Joe Smith
Stranger in Town $105,200.00 Ann Dvorak Charles ‘Chic’ Sale
The Crooked Circle $102,425.00 Zasu Pitts James Gleason
Afraid to Talk $101,275.00 Sidney Fox Eric Linden
Mystery Ranch $101,250.00 Cecilia Parker George O’Brien
Scarlet Dawn $100,825.00 Nancy Carroll Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Those We Love $99,200.00 Mary Astor Kenneth MacKenna
Little Orphan Annie $92,387.00 Mitzi Green Buster Phelps
Payment Deferred $92,351.00 Maureen O’Sullivan Charles Laughton
The Menace/Feathered Serpent $91,800.00 Bette Davis H.B. Warner
Steady Company $91,075.00 June Clyde Norman Foster
That’s My Boy $90,967.00 Dorothy Jordan Richard Cromwell
The Expert $87,950.00 Lois Wilson Charles ‘Chic’ Sale
While Paris Sleeps $86,833.00 Helen Mack Victor McLaglen
Love Affair $82,850.00 Dorothy Mackaill Humphrey Bogart
The Crusader / Should a Woman Tell? $82,200.00 Evelyn Brent H.B. Warner
Law and Order $80,250.00 * Walter Huston
Monte Carlo Madness $77,625.00 Sari Maritza Hans Albers
Hell’s House/Children of the Big House $75,425.00 Bette Davis Pat O’Brien
The Congress Dances $75,050.00 Lilian Harvey Conrad Veidt
He Learned About Women $74,550.00 Susan Fleming Stuart Erwin