Box office digest annual (1940)

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Names and Credits of the BIG TEN PICTURES OF No. TITLES AND ESTIMATED GROSSES DIST. PRODUCER DIRECTOR STAR 1. JESSE JAMES — T $3,250,000 FOX Darryl F. Zanuck Nunnally Johnson (Asso. Prod.) Henry King Tyrone Power Nancy Kelly Henry Fonda 2. GUNGA DIN $3,100,000 RKO Pan Berman George Stevens (Asso. Prod.) George Stevens Cary Grant Doug Fairbanks, Jr. Victor McLaglen 3. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON $2,700,000 COL. Harry Cohn Frank Capra (Asso. Prod.) Frank Capra Jean Arthur James Stewart 4. THE RAINS CAME $2,600,000 FOX Darryl F. Zanuck Harry Joe Brown (Asso. Prod.) Clarence Brown Myrna Loy Tyrone Power George Brent 5. BABES IN ARMS $2,550,000 MGM Arthur Freed Busby Berkeley Judy Garland Mickey Rooney 6. DODGE CITY — T $2,400,000 WAR. Hal Wallis Robert Lord (Asso. Prod.) Michael Curtiz Olivia DeHavilland Errol Flynn 7. THE WOMEN $2,400,000 MGM Hunt Stromberg George Cukor Norma Shearer Joan Crawford Rosalind Russell 8. GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS $2,300,000 MGM Ben Goetz Victor Saville (Asso. Prod.) Sam Wood Robert Donat 9. THE WIZARD OF OZ — T $2,300,000 MGM Mervyn LeRoy Victor Fleming Judy Garland Frank Morgan 10. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK — T $2,200,000 FOX Darryl F. Zanuck Raymond Griffith (Asso. Prod.) John Ford Claudette Colbert Henry Fonda T — Indicates Technicolor