Top Grossing 1945 Movies

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.

Joan Crawford in 1945’s Mildred Pierce…she won an Oscar for her role in the movie

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 gave us Bela Lugosi’s Zombies on Broadway…I sure Steve Lensman has seen that one

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

Top earners in 1945 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

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81 thoughts on “Top Grossing 1945 Movies”

  1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

    Title name is incorrect:

    1945 Tonight And Every Other Night (1945) line item 41 185.7
    should be 1945 Tonight and Every Night (1945)

    You have typo and duplication:
    1945 Salone Where She Danced (1945) line item 103 120.3
    1945 Salome Where She Danced (1945) line item 122 69.6

    Thx
    Mike

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  2. Salome Where She Danced is listed twice, once as “Salone Where She Danced”. It has two dollar amounts and review percentages, as well as rank.

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    1. Hey Mike….this one is being fixed right this minute…as the website is doing a complete update….planning on researching lots of your recent comments tonight…especially if I can knock out some stuff for college this afternoon….as I multi-task between video meetings and college stuff. Good catch.

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      1. Mr. Cogerson,

        This is not my request another anonymous requested thsis.
        I have been using my name for awhile now.
        Thx

        ike

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    2. Finally….I think the problem of two Salomes Dancing is over….as only one Salome is dancing here….the numbers listed here are from the Walter Wanger ledgers….so it actually has worldwide grosses too.

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    1. Hey Anonymous….Rex is listed as the star of the movie. Like other suggestions that you have made….we did not have a Rex UMR page at the time of publication. We now do…and he now has a link in the column.

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  4. “A Thousand and One Nights”: Cornel Wilde was the star. This was one of four hits he appeared in that year, likely more than any other actor.

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    1. Hey Anonymous….Cornel is listed as the star of the movie. Like other suggestions that you have made….we did not have a Cornel UMR page at the time of publication. We now do…and he now has a link in the column.

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    2. Hey Anonymous….added in our 1945 star table (found at the bottom of the page)…and Cornel Wilde finished in 2nd place…trailing only Ingrid Bergman. Good point.

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    1. Charles Boyer was the male lead…but Lorre stole the show….so we will stick with him. At the time we did not have a Boyer page….but we do now. Good comments. We made some changes…and fixed about 10 movies that did not have any stars listed. Appreciate the time you took to share your knowledge.

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