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
“State Fair” had four equally billed stars in this order: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes and Vivian Blaine.
Hey Anonymous….added Jeanne Crain to the UMR co-star links…..as she has an UMR page. Mr. Haymes and Vivian Blaine are UMRless so they do not make the column. Thanks for all the suggestions…we followed some of them. Good stuff.
“Christmas in Connecticut”: The male lead was Dennis Morgan.
Hey Anonymous….at the time of publication we did not have a page on Dennis Morgan…we do now….but Sydney is going to keep his spot.
“Our Vines Have Tender Grapes”: was not a typical Edward G. Robinson role. Child star Margaret O’Brien was given equal billing.
Hey Anonymous….at the time of publication I did not have an UMR page on Agnes Moorehead…now we do, so I added Moorehead into the UMR column. If we ever do a page on O’Brien I will include her in the links column.
“They Were Expendable”: Robert Montgomery was billed over John Wayne. John Ford directed.
Hey Anonymous….even though Wayne was billed behind Montgomery….gotta stick with one of my all-time favorites and one of our most popular subjects in the UMR co-star column. Since I just through our Donna Reed in another movie…going to keep her here.
“The Picture of Dorian Grey” was based on the story by Oscar Wilde. George Sanders had top billing and Hurd Hatfield played the title character.
Hey Anonymous…we have pages on Donna Reed, George Sanders and Angela Lansbury. Lansbury got an Oscar nomination for the movie….so she stayed…..I did movie Sanders in the Reed part.