1934 Top Box Office Movies

This movie page looks at 1934 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 1934 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 1935 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1934.  Obviously many movies made in 1933 earned box office dollars in 1934.  On the other side many movies made in 1934 made money in 1935 and later.  This page will looks at 133 1934 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 1934 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 1934

1934 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 1934 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1934 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
  • Sort 1934 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • Sort 1934 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 1934 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1934 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.

Shirley Temple in 1934’s Bright Eyes

Top earners in 1934 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

Adjusted Worldwide Box Office

It Happened One Night (1934) $342,645,052.00
The Merry Widow (1934) $291,821,386.00
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) $267,189,325.00
Treasure Island (1934) $259,320,753.00
Tarzan And His Mate (1934) $255,329,444.00
Forsaking All Others (1934) $250,767,940.00
Wonder Bar (1934) $232,065,847.00
Chained (1934) $226,706,085.00
Viva Villa! (1934) $213,819,844.00
The Gay Divorcee (1934) $202,302,139.00
Here Comes the Navy (1934) $200,477,503.00
The Painted Veil (1934) $189,073,786.00
Flirtation Walk (1934) $174,819,128.00
The Thin Man (1934) $174,471,289.00
Dames (1934) $172,538,384.00
Men in White (1934) $165,924,231.00
Sadie McKee (1934) $148,476,521.00
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) $140,607,948.00
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) $138,327,196.00
Evelyn Prentice (1934) $132,967,471.00
The Little Minister (1934) $125,897,118.00
The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) $125,326,957.00
Hi Nellie! (1934) $120,195,255.00
Operator 13 (1934) $115,177,632.00
Fashions of 1934 (1934) $110,045,929.00
British Agent (1934) $105,142,377.00
He Was Her Man (1934) $94,561,308.00
Happiness Ahead (1934) $94,536,889.00
Doctor Monica (1934) $79,141,900.00
Of Human Bondage (1934) $77,203,240.00
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) $74,580,358.00
Gambling Lady (1934) $74,466,370.00
Mandalay (1934) $71,729,445.00
Spitfire (1934) $68,878,495.00
The Man with Two Faces (1934) $61,808,214.00
What Every Woman Knows (1934) $57,246,719.00
Outcast Lady (1934) $54,395,768.00
Jimmy The Gent (1934) $53,255,374.00
I’ve Got Your Number (1934) $53,141,386.00
The Dragon Murder Case (1934) $48,579,880.00
Born To Be Bad (1934) $47,767,450.00
Dark Hazard (1934) $46,755,255.00
Fog Over Frisco (1934) $44,360,477.00
The Key (1934) $44,018,375.00
A Lost Lady (1934) $43,334,144.00
Upperworld (1934) $41,509,564.00
Murder in the Clouds (1934) $40,027,067.00
A Wicked Woman (1934) $37,974,383.00
Housewife (1934) $37,062,093.00
Registered Nurse (1934) $36,834,034.00
Gridiron Flash (1934) $22,693,437.00

41 thoughts on “1934 Top Box Office Movies

  1. Hello Bruce.
    I was wondering if the gross Box office figures for BRIGHT EYES, were based on worldwide box office rather than domestic figures? I ask this question because I have been unable to find any rentals figure for BRIGHT EYES anywhere.

    1. Hey Sidney…..Dan was able to answer the question about Babes in Toyland. As for Les Miserables…..not sure how my year is different than IMDb’s. Seems it should be shifted to 1935. I will have to do that….because it is listed with all the other 1935 movies when looking at Oscar movies.

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