This movie page looks at 1945 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 1945 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 1945 movies in our database.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1945. Obviously many movies made in 1944 earned box office dollars in 1945. On the other side many movies made in 1945 made money in 1946 and later. This page will looks at 127 1945 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 1944 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 1945
1945 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 1945 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort 1945 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort 1945 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort 1945 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 1945 Top Box Office Movies received.
- Sort 1945 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.
1945 Box Office Grosses – Adjusted World Wide
My Main Sources
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
“Rhapsody in Blue” was a biography of composer George Gershwin and was played by Robert Alda in the lead role.
Hey Anonymous….at the time of publication…we did not have a page on Charles Coburn, we now do…..so we added him and Robert Alda to the UMR co-star column…dumping Smith and Leslie…neither of which has an UMR page.
“Duffy’s Tavern”: Ed Gardner played Archie (Duffy was never there) on the radio and in this movie. Betty Hutton and Paulette Goddard had walk-ons along with other Paramount stars of the time.
I should have added that Hutton and Goddard, and others appeared as themselves.
Hey Anonymous….we have UMR pages on 7 of the stars that appeared in Duffy’s Tavern…..their links are spread out through the pages….but Gardner did not bump any of them of the UMR Co-Star list.
“Diamond Horseshoe”: then popular singer Dick Haymes was the male lead. Phil Silvers had a supporting role.
Hey Anonymous….we have a page on Garrett….but no page on Silvers or Haymes…still…I dumped Silvers and added in Haymes.
“Leave Her to Heaven”: Cornel Wilde was the male lead. Vincent Price was just a supporting actor.
Hey Anonymous….at the time of the publication of this page…we did not have a Cornel Wilde page…at this time we do….but Vincent has a more lasting legacy than Wilde. Ultimately these links are to help people navigate the website. So in this case….no change was made.
“Vacation from Marriage”: Robert Donat was billed above Deborah Kerr in this English film.
Hey Anonymous. Thanks for sharing all this information. Our UMR co-star link is not the Top billed person…but the people we have UMR pages on. That being said…I just put Donat in that column (1st with Kerr second).