1949 Top Grossing Movies

This movie page looks at 1949 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 1949 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 33,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1949 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1949.  Obviously many movies made in 1948 earned box office dollars in 1949.  On the other side many movies made in 1949 made money in 1950 and later.  This page will looks at 147 1949 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 1949 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.

1948’s All The King’s Men

Our UMR Top 50 of 1949

1949 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 1949 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.  Use the search box to find your favorites like Bob Hope or John Wayne.
  • Sort 1949 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
  • Sort 1949 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • Sort 1949 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 1949 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1949 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.
1948’s I Was A Male War Bride

Source 1: Eddie Mannix MGM Ledgers

Source 2: C.J. Tevlin RKO Ledgers

Source 3: Variety Magazines –

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

 UMR Yearly Reviews

22 thoughts on “1949 Top Grossing Movies”

  1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Here are a few additions for review for the year 1949.

    1949 Home of the Brave $2.5 million Wikipedia-source- “Top Grossers of 1949”. Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.

    1949 Intruder in the Dust $837,000 Wikipedia-source-The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

    1949 Siren of Atlantis $335,000 Wikipedia-source-read text in box office and Maria Montez Tells Court About Astrology Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 22 Apr 1950: A1.

    1949 Arson, Inc. $60,000 Wikipedia-source-Mark Thomas McGee, Talk’s Cheap, Action’s Expensive: The Films of Robert L. Lippert, Bear Manor Media, 2014 p 84

    Thx

    Mike

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  2. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Congratulations on all the hard work on becoming a teacher.
    What field are you going to teach?

    Here is a typo correction for the year 1949.
    typo
    1949 Roseana McCoy (1949)
    1949 Roseanna McCoy

    Thx

    Mike

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    1. Hey Mike. First of all, thanks for the kudos for finishing my college teaching class. Secondly, thanks for the headsup on Roseana vs Roseanna. That has been fixed. Thirdly, I am and will be teaching Technology to middle schoolers (6th, 7th and 8th graders).

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      This website is how I really started getting noticed at my school. They pretty much assumed that I was a tech wiz because of UMR….so when the previous Tech teacher left….the principal thought I would be a good fit as the new Tech teacher. I know way too much information….but you did say thanks….lol.

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  3. “Never Fear”, directed by Ida Lupino, starred Sally Forrest and Keefe Braselle. RKO
    “A Dangerous Profession” (RKO) and “Johnny Allegro” (Columbia) were George Raft pictures.
    “Impact” co-starred Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines. UA
    “Savage Splendor” was a documentary. RKO
    “Without Honor” paired Laraine Day with Dane Clark. UA
    “Too Late for Tears” featured Lizabeth Scott and Don DeFore. UA
    “The Fighting O”Flynn” was a Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. adventure. Universal
    “Abandoned” starred Dennis O’Keefe and Gale Storm. Universal
    “Border Incident” starred Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy. MGM
    “Calamity Jane and Sam Bass” were played by Yvonne de Carlo and Howard Duff. Universal
    “Shockproof” starred Cornel Wilde with Patricia Knight. Columbia
    “Roughshod” starred Robert Sterling and John Ireland. RKO
    “The Accused” featured Loretta Young and Robert Cummings. Paramount
    “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” paired Donald O’Connor with Gloria De Haven. Universal
    “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” was a June Haver musical with Mark Stevens . 20th

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  4. Another great work of research!
    However, why is Cecil B. DeMIlle’s Samson and Delilah not listed? All sources indicate it was released in 1949.
    Thank you.

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    1. Hey Frank….thanks for the nice words about this page….as for Samson and Delilah….I somehow put it on our 1950 section….and then when I realized my mistake…I forgot to include it on this page. Well….no more….Samson has a spot in the table….your comment got me motivated to update the page with our new dynamic webpages…thanks for the headsup.

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  5. 60 films watched (plus Samson and Delilah). My favorites would include Madame Bovary, A Letter to three Wives, On the Town, Caught and perhaps my favorite de Havilland, The Heiress, though I may be biased because of Clift’s participation. As in the 1948 charts, Act of Violence appears here, and I still think it’s a pretty good B. Holiday Affair is a charming little christmas movie, starring Mitchum and Janet Leigh.
    Two remakes were successful enough, but in both cases I prefer the black and white originals: Little Women and In the good old Summertime.
    Always enjoy these yearly reviews, so thanks for another one 😉

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    1. Hey Lupino…..60 is a pretty stout total. I have seen and enjoyed all the favorites you listed with the exception of Caught…which I want to see. I appreciate the comment…not sure how I missed it….but I guess better late than never…lol.

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