The box office check-up of 1935 (1936)

SHIRLEY TEMPLE The Winners Shirley Temple 874% Will Rogers 817% Clark Gable 639% *Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 495% Joan Crawford 485% Claudette Colbert 451% Dick Powell 446% Wallace Beery 412% Joe E. Brown 341% James Cagney 334% * Exhibitors listing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers divided in reporting them as a team and as individuals. The majority listed them as a team and many who reported them separately listed them in immediate sequence. Therefore it was deemed necessary to treat Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the tabulations as a team and also as individuals. Their team rating credits a full point for every vote registered for the team, plus one-half point for each vote for each individual. Their individual ratings in the tabulations are based upon individual votes without consideration for team votes. On these pages is a complete compilation of the returns in the inquiry to determine " The Biggest Money Making Stars of 1934-3 5”; the ranking is according to the number of times a player was mentioned in any relative position in the returned questionnaires. The percentages refer to the number of citations with respect to the total votes cast by the participating exhibitors : Honorable Mention Mae West 277% Bing Crosby 265% * Fred Astaire 237% * Ginger Rogers 211% William Powell 205% Janet Gavnor 173% Jean Harlow 164% Norma Shearer 139% W. C. Fields 129% Ruby Keeler 120% Warner Baxter I 14% Grace Moore 113% Katharine Hepburn 111% Buck Jones 104% BIGGEST MONEY WILL ROGERS CLAUDETTE COLBERT Fredric March Pat O'Brien George O'Brien Eddie Cantor Robert Montgomery Wheeler and Woolsey Gary Cooper George Raft Myrna Loy Jane Withers Jeanette MacDonald George Arliss Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. . . Kay Francis Richard Dix Hoot Gibson Joan Blondell Charles Laughton Joe Penner Greta Garbo Paul Muni Randolph Scott James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. . Al Jolson Lionel Barrymore Boris Karloff Loretta Young John Boles Tim McCoy Jackie Cooper 103% 101% 100% 92% 90% 85% 82% 79% 76% 70% 61% 59% 58% 52% 51% 51% 49% 47% 42% 41% 41% 40% 40% 40% 36% 34% 34% 31% 28% 28% CLARK GABLE DICK POWELL Ken Maynard John Wayne Marion Davies Laurel & Hardy James Dunn Warner Oland Charles Ruggles Edward G. Robinson Irene Dunne Jack Oakie Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Robert Donat Jean Parker Guy Kibbee Margaret Sullavan Zasu Pitts Ronald Colman Jack Holt May Robson Warren William Sylvia Sidney Edmund Lowe Spencer Tracy Anne Shirley Bette Davis Edward Arnold Nelson Eddy Miriam Hopkins Robert Taylor 27% 26% 25% 24% 24% 23% 22% 20% 19% 8% 7% 6% 6% 5% 5% 5% 3% 3% 3% 2% 1% 1% 0% 0% 9% 8% 8% 8%