61 thoughts on “Yearly Reviews 1926-2022”

1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

   You should do 2010s Decade now.

   1930s Decade
   1940s Decade
   1950s Decade
   1960s Decade
   1970s Decade
   1980s Decade
   1990s Decade
   2000s Decade

   Please review and advise

   Thx

   Mike

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2. Hi Mr. Cogerson,

   Please review the following movie additions to 1958.

   1958 Duel in the Forest $175,000 Wikipedia-source- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

   1958 Davy 305,000 Wikipedia-source- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

   1958 Fiend Without a Face $650,000 (on double bill) Wikipedia-see in box office area

   1958 Underwater Warrior $795,000 Wikipedia-source- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

   1958 High School Confidential $1,915,000 Wikipedia-see in box office area

   1958 Dunkirk $2,060,000 Wikipedia-source- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

   1958 Macabre $5,000,000 (USA) Wikipedia-see release area

   1958 Mardi Gras $2.5 million Wikipedia-source-Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989. p. 227

   Thx

   Mike

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3. Less info version of what I was going to send originally. These are all the films that spent 4 weeks or more at number 1 from 1923 through 2009.

   This info is based on the same source as the list above, the weekly top 10 box-office books, by Leonidas Fragias.

   Some have done this over 2 years so they are listed like 1955-56, films like Titanic or Beverly Hills Cop. Some films hit # 1 on re-issues. 1 film hit # 1 in 5 different years. 1 film was # 1 in 3 straight years on its initial run. I have on my screen breakdowns of their streaks at number 1 but when I put it here the look is all messed up. I had things like 4-3-1 which means a film was 8 weeks # 1 but was first 4 weeks, fell, went back for 3, fell again and went back a third time. When you see separate entities for years that’s a reissue (weeks are listed by each year but don’t translate here well).

   41 SOUND OF MUSIC JULIE ANDREWS 1965 (hit # 1 11 times in its initial run)
   33 BEN-HUR CHARLTON HESTON 1960
   26 GODFATHER, THE MARLON BRANDO 1972
   26 STAR WARS MARK HAMILL 1977 1978 1979 1981 1997
   24 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS DAVID NIVEN 1957
   24 GONE WITH THE WIND CLARK GABLE 1940 1941 1961 1967
   21 FUNNY GIRL BARBRA STREISAND 1968-69-70 (hit # 1 for 3rd time in its 73rd week on of initial release)
   16 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL DEE WALLACE 1982
   16 EXORCIST, THE ELLEN BURSTYN 1974 1976
   15 CLEOPATRA ELIZABETH TAYLOR 1963
   15 MY FAIR LADY AUDREY HEPBURN 1964-65
   15 LOVE STORY ALI MACGRAW 1970-71
   15 TITANIC LEONARDO DICAPRIO 1997-1998
   14 GRADUATE, THE DUSTIN HOFFMAN 1968
   14 JAWS ROY SCHEIDER 1975
   14 TOOTSIE DUSTIN HOFFMAN 1982-83
   14 BEVERLY HILLS COP EDDIE MURPHY 1984-85
   13 ROCKY SYLVESTER STALLONE 1977
   13 TEN COMMANDMENTS CHARLTON HESTON 1956-57
   13 WEST SIDE STORY NATALIE WOOD 1961-62
   13 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO OMAR SHARIF 1966-67
   13 POSEIDON ADVENTURE GENE HACKMAN 1972-73 1974
   12 HOME ALONE MACAULAY CULKIN 1990-91
   11 BIG PARADE JOHN GILBERT 1926
   11 HOW THE WEST WAS WON JAMES STEWART 1963
   11 BACK TO THE FUTURE MICHAEL J. FOX 1985
   11 QUO VADIS ROBERT TAYLOR 1951-52
   11 EXODUS PAUL NEWMAN 1960-61
   11 SUPERMAN CHRISTOPHER REEVE 1978-79
   10 EMPIRE STRIKES BACK MARK HAMILL 1980 1982 1997
   9 COCK-EYED WORLD VICTOR MCLAGLEN 1929
   9 MRS. MINIVER GREER GARSON 1942
   9 GREAT CARUSO MARIO LANZA 1951
   9 ROBE, THE RICHARD BURTON 1953
   9 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF ELIZABETH TAYLOR 1958
   9 KRAMER VS. KRAMER DUSTIN HOFFMAN 1980
   9 CROCODILE DUNDEE PAUL HOGAN 1986
   9 GOOD MORNING VIETNAM ROBIN WILLIAMS 1988
   9 THUNDERBALL SEAN CONNERY 1965-66
   8 WHITE CHRISTMAS BING CROSBY 1954
   8 SOUTH PACIFIC ROSSANO BRAZZI 1958
   8 UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN DEBBIE REYNOLDS 1964
   8 WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLFE? ELIZABETH TAYLOR 1966
   8 AIRPORT BURT LANCASTER 1970
   8 STING, THE PAUL NEWMAN 1974
   8 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST JACK NICHOLSON 1976
   8 NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE TIM MATHESON 1978
   8 PRIVATE BENJAMIN GOLDIE HAWN 1980
   8 PORKY’S DAN MONAHAN 1982
   8 GHOSTBUSTERS BILL MURRAY 1984
   8 FATAL ATTRACTION MICHAEL DOUGLAS 1987
   8 GUYS AND DOLLS MARLON BRANDO 1955-56
   8 GODFATHER PART II AL PACINO 1974-75
   8 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND RICHARD DREYFUSS 1977-78
   7 HIGH SOCIETY GRACE KELLY 1956
   7 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI ALEC GUINNESS 1958
   7 NORTH BY NORTHWEST CARY GRANT 1959
   7 PILLOW TALK DORIS DAY 1959
   7 SOME LIKE IT HOT MARILYN MONROE 1959
   7 THAT TOUCH OF MINK CARY GRANT 1962
   7 TOM JONES ALBERT FINNEY 1964
   7 ODD COUPLE JACK LEMMON 1968
   7 ON GOLDEN POND KATHARINE HEPBURN 1982
   7 GOLDFINGER SEAN CONNERY 1964-65
   7 VALLEY OF THE DOLLS BARBARA PARKINS 1967-68
   7 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SEAN CONNERY 1971-72
   7 FRENCH CONNECTION GENE HACKMAN 1971-72
   7 STIR CRAZY RICHARD PRYOR 1980-81
   7 RETURN OF THE JEDI MARK HAMILL 1983 1997
   6 SINGING FOOL AL JOLSON 1928
   6 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS ANIMATED 1938
   6 NOTORIOUS CARY GRANT 1946
   6 BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES FREDRIC MARCH 1947
   6 GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH JAMES STEWART 1952
   6 PETER PAN ANIMATED 1953
   6 CAINE MUTINY HUMPHREY BOGART 1954
   6 KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE ROBERT TAYLOR 1954
   6 GIANT ROCK HUDSON 1956
   6 COME SEPTEMBER ROCK HUDSON 1961
   6 MUSIC MAN ROBERT PRESTON 1962
   6 CARPETBAGGERS, THE GEORGE PEPPARD 1964
   6 BIBLE, THE MICHAEL PARKS 1967
   6 CASINO ROYALE DAVID NIVEN 1967
   6 YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE SEAN CONNERY 1967
   6 LOVE BUG DEAN JONES 1969
   6 TOWERING INFERNO PAUL NEWMAN 1975
   6 10 DUDLEY MOORE 1979
   6 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK HARRISON FORD 1981
   6 RAIN MAN DUSTIN HOFFMAN 1989
   6 FUGITIVE, THE HARRISON FORD 1993
   6 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT SHIRLEY MACLAINE 1983-84
   6 ROCKY IV SYLVESTER STALLONE 1985-86
   5 GRAND HOTEL GRETA GARBO 1932
   5 GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 WARREN WILLIAM 1933
   5 MY SISTER EILEEN ROSALIND RUSSELL 1942
   5 MORE THE MERRIER JEAN ARTHUR 1943
   5 GOING MY WAY BING CROSBY 1944
   5 ANCHORS AWEIGH FRANK SINATRA 1945
   5 VALLEY OF DECISION GREER GARSON 1945
   5 KING SOLOMON’S MINES DEBORAH KERR 1950
   5 SAMSON AND DELILAH HEDY LAMARR 1950
   5 DAVID AND BATHSHEBA GREGORY PECK 1951
   5 SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO GREGORY PECK 1952
   5 HOUSE OF WAX VINCENT PRICE 1953
   5 GLENN MILLER STORY JAMES STEWART 1954
   5 COUNTRY GIRL BING CROSBY 1955
   5 MISTER ROBERTS HENRY FONDA 1955
   5 PICNIC WILLIAM HOLDEN 1956
   5 SAYONARA MARLON BRANDO 1958
   5 LOVER COME BACK DORIS DAY 1962
   5 CHARADE CARY GRANT 1964
   5 PINK PANTHER DAVID NIVEN 1964
   5 IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SIDNEY POITIER 1967
   5 ROSEMARY’S BABY MIA FARROW 1968
   5 M*A*S*H DONALD SUTHERLAND 1970 1971 (1971 was shared 3 weeks on reissue with Patton).
   5 LIVE AND LET DIE ROGER MOORE 1973
   5 WAY WE WERE BARBRA STREISAND 1973
   5 LET’S DO IT AGAIN SIDNEY POITIER 1975
   5 OMEN, THE GREGORY PECK 1976
   5 GREASE JOHN TRAVOLTA 1978
   5 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER JOHN TRAVOLTA 1978
   5 FORT APACHE, THE BRONX PAUL NEWMAN 1981
   5 MR. MOM MICHAEL KEATON 1983
   5 POLICE ACADEMY STEVE GUTTENBERG 1984
   5 TIGHTROPE CLINT EASTWOOD 1984
   5 SECRET OF MY SUCCESS MICHAEL J. FOX 1987
   5 STAKEOUT RICHARD DREYFUSS 1987
   5 LOOK WHO’S TALKING JOHN TRAVOLTA 1989
   5 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS ANTHONY HOPKINS 1991
   5 BASIC INSTINCT MICHAEL DOUGLAS 1992
   5 WAYNE’S WORLD MIKE MYERS 1992
   5 FORREST GUMP TOM HANKS 1994
   5 SIXTH SENSE BRUCE WILLIS 1999
   5 BELLS OF ST. MARY’S BING CROSBY 1945-46
   5 LONGEST DAY JOHN WAYNE 1962 1969
   5 IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD SPENCER TRACY 1963-64
   5 PROFESSIONALS, THE BURT LANCASTER 1966 1970
   5 HAWAII JULIE ANDREWS 1966-67
   5 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID PAUL NEWMAN 1969-70 1970 (later in 70 it was reissued on a double bill with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
   5 KING KONG JEFF BRIDGES 1976-77
   5 GOLDEN CHILD EDDIE MURPHY 1986-87
   5 THREE MEN AND A BABY TOM SELLECK 1987-88
   5 MRS. DOUBTFIRE ROBIN WILLIAMS 1993-94
   4 MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE RUDOLPH VALENTINO 1924
   4 FRESHMAN, THE HAROLD LLOYD 1925
   4 GOLD RUSH CHARLES CHAPLIN 1925
   4 FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE HAROLD LLOYD 1926
   4 BROADWAY MELODY BESSIE LOVE 1929
   4 LITTLE WOMEN KATHARINE HEPBURN 1933
   4 ROBERTA IRENE DUNNE 1935
   4 TOP HAT FRED ASTAIRE 1935
   4 SAN FRANCISCO CLARK GABLE 1936
   4 MAYTIME JEANETTE MACDONALD 1937
   4 ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND TYRONE POWER 1938
   4 BOOM TOWN CLARK GABLE 1940
   4 REBECCA LAURENCE OLIVIER 1940
   4 SERGEANT YORK GARY COOPER 1941
   4 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS GARY COOPER 1943
   4 STAGE DOOR CANTEEN CHERYL WALKER 1943
   4 COVER GIRL RITA HAYWORTH 1944
   4 WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER IRENE DUNNE 1944
   4 DIAMOND HORSESHOE BETTY GRABLE 1945
   4 WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF GINGER ROGERS 1945
   4 ROAD TO UTOPIA BING CROSBY 1946
   4 BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER CARY GRANT 1947
   4 DUEL IN THE SUN JENNIFER JONES 1947
   4 DATE WITH JUDY WALLACE BEERY 1948
   4 EMPEROR WALTZ BING CROSBY 1948
   4 CINDERELLA ANIMATED 1950
   4 FATHER OF THE BRIDE SPENCER TRACY 1950
   4 AMERICAN IN PARIS GENE KELLY 1951
   4 FATHER’S LITTLE DIVIDEND SPENCER TRACY 1951
   4 SHOW BOAT HOWARD KEEL 1951
   4 THAT’S MY BOY MARTIN & LEWIS 1951
   4 IVANHOE ROBERT TAYLOR 1952
   4 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY BURT LANCASTER 1953
   4 EXECUTIVE SUITE WILLIAM HOLDEN 1954
   4 CINERAMA HOLIDAY BETTY MARSH 1955
   4 TO HELL AND BACK AUDIE MURPHY 1955
   4 KING AND I YUL BRYNNER 1956
   4 WAR AND PEACE AUDREY HEPBURN 1956
   4 INDISCREET CARY GRANT 1958
   4 AUNTIE MAME ROSALIND RUSSELL 1959
   4 BUTTERFIELD 8 ELIZABETH TAYLOR 1960
   4 ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR FRED MACMURRAY 1961
   4 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S AUDREY HEPBURN 1961
   4 GUNS OF NAVARONE GREGORY PECK 1961
   4 PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY FRED ASTAIRE 1961
   4 WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM LAURENCE HARVEY 1962
   4 UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE JACK LEMMON 1963
   4 HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING ROBERT MORSE 1967
   4 GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER SPENCER TRACY 1968
   4 SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSS SONG MELVIN VAN PEEBLES 1971 (didn’t see that one coming did you)
   4 LADY SINGS THE BLUES DIANA ROSS 1972
   4 LONGEST YARD BURT REYNOLDS 1974
   4 THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR ROBERT REDFORD 1975
   4 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN DUSTIN HOFFMAN 1976
   4 CARRIE SISSY SPACEK 1976
   4 SILENT MOVIE MEL BROOKS 1976
   4 LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR DIANE KEATON 1977
   4 MIDNIGHT EXPRESS BRAD DAVIS 1978
   4 CHINA SYNDROME JANE FONDA 1979
   4 AIRPLANE! ROBERT HAYS 1980
   4 SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II BURT REYNOLDS 1980
   4 ARTHUR DUDLEY MOORE 1981
   4 SUPERMAN II CHRISTOPHER REEVE 1981
   4 TIME BANDITS JOHN CLEESE 1981
   4 NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN SEAN CONNERY 1983
   4 POLICE ACADEMY 2: THEIR FIRST ASSIGNMENT STEVE GUTTENBERG 1985
   4 RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II SYLVESTER STALLONE 1985
   4 ALIENS SIGOURNEY WEAVER 1986
   4 DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS NICK NOLTE 1986
   4 KARATE KID, PART II RALPH MACCHIO 1986
   4 PLATOON CHARLIE SHEEN 1987
   4 BEETLEJUICE MICHAEL KEATON 1988
   4 UNCLE BUCK JOHN CANDY 1989
   4 DRIVING MISS DAISY MORGAN FREEMAN 1990
   4 GHOST PATRICK SWAYZE 1990
   4 PRETTY WOMAN JULIA ROBERTS 1990
   4 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES JUDITH HOAG 1990
   4 HOT SHOTS! CHARLIE SHEEN 1991
   4 TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 1991
   4 HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE REBECCA DE MORNAY 1992
   4 UNDER SIEGE STEVEN SEAGAL 1992
   4 ALADDIN ANIMATED 1993
   4 INDECENT PROPOSAL ROBERT REDFORD 1993
   4 APOLLO 13 TOM HANKS 1995
   4 LEGENDS OF THE FALL BRAD PITT 1995
   4 SEVEN BRAD PITT 1995
   4 TOY STORY ANIMATED 1995
   4 BIRDCAGE, THE ROBIN WILLIAMS 1996
   4 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN TOM HANKS 1998
   4 HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS JIM CARREY 2000
   4 MEET THE PARENTS BEN STILLER 2000
   4 PASSION OF THE CHRIST JIM CAVIEZEL 2004
   4 DARK KNIGHT CHRISTIAN BALE 2008
   4 GREAT DICTATOR CHARLES CHAPLIN 1940-41
   4 MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID ESTHER WILLIAMS 1952-53
   4 FLOWER DRUM SONG NANCY KWAN 1961-62
   4 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY MARLON BRANDO 1962-63
   4 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA PETER O’TOOLE 1963 1971
   4 ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE GEORGE LAZENBY 1969-70
   4 PATTON GEORGE C. SCOTT 1970 1971 (71 reissue shared double bill with M*A*S*H)
   4 CABARET LIZA MINNELLI 1973 1974
   4 STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE WILLIAM SHATNER 1979-80
   4 HOOK ROBIN WILLIAMS 1991-92
   4 FEW GOOD MEN TOM CRUISE 1992-93
   4 DUMB AND DUMBER JIM CARREY 1994-95
   4 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING ELIJAH WOOD 2001-02
   4 LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING ELIJAH WOOD 2003-04

   You wanted to know about office. The books list it all for the 20, 30’s and 40’s. The next 3 books he just lists the titles (Variety did print the boxoffice for all the films in the top 50 of the week). For the 80’s through the 2000’s he lists all the weekly boxoffice as seen in Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, Boxoffice Mojo, Boxoffice pro etc.)

   Variety had a few weeks where the charts were frozen for a week, usually the week of the annual issue when they showed the top of the year. This is similar to what Billboard and other music chart magazines along with tons of radio stations did usually at the end of the year week. So whatever number the film is that week is counted as staying in the same position the next week. They only did this in 4 years or so. The other end of year charts issue the weekly was also listed.

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   1. Hey Dan. Thanks for sharing this information. Lots of great movies. Thanks for the clarification on what box office is in the books. It would interest me to see those Top 50 lists from the 1980s…I remember seeing them in the 1980s…when I used to track down a Variety every week. I guess I will have to open up the wallet and take a peak at those numbers. Good stuff as always.

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4. 2nd attempt at this which wiped out in the middle of a comment I was writing. Based on the books of Leonidas Fragias there have been 2354 films that have hit # 1 on Variety from 1922 to 1981 and from 1981 to 2009 based on the figures we all see on Boxoffice Mojo, The Numbers and Box Office Report. This is the yearly breakdown for first time # 1 pictures. Re-issues are counted as separate releases but returns are only counted the first time in their run. Notice how dull the 60’s were on top, 1965 and 1966 stand out; and the rapid turnover in the 20’s, 30’s and the 2000’s.

   1922 35
   1923 45
   1924 40
   1925 39
   1926 31
   1927 43
   1928 40
   1929 35
   1930 42
   1931 40
   1932 39
   1933 38
   1934 42
   1935 34
   1936 36
   1937 34
   1938 33
   1939 36
   1940 27
   1941 32
   1942 22
   1943 28
   1944 27
   1945 25
   1946 27
   1947 26
   1948 30
   1949 30
   1950 27
   1951 15
   1952 28
   1953 21
   1954 18
   1955 20
   1956 19
   1957 11
   1958 20
   1959 23
   1960 10
   1961 17
   1962 12
   1963 14
   1964 13
   1965 6
   1966 6
   1967 13
   1968 9
   1969 24
   1970 28
   1971 21
   1972 13
   1973 23
   1974 20
   1975 18
   1976 21
   1977 11
   1978 19
   1979 19
   1980 18
   1981 23
   1982 19
   1983 20
   1984 21
   1985 17
   1986 22
   1987 21
   1988 27
   1989 25
   1990 26
   1991 24
   1992 22
   1993 28
   1994 32
   1995 27
   1996 36
   1997 33
   1998 27
   1999 34
   2000 30
   2001 34
   2002 34
   2003 41
   2004 36
   2005 40
   2006 40
   2007 39
   2008 40
   2009 43
   2354

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   1. Hey Dan. Thanks for sharing this information. I agree with you about the mid 1960s. The Sound of Music, Dr. Zhivago and Mary Poppins have alot to do with that. While Stars Wars made 1977 look off as well. 1940 seems to be questionable. Gone With the Wind barely got released in 1939…..and made a boatload of money in 1940…..the biggest boat of all-time…yet there were 26 other movies that beat Gone With The Wind in 1939? Heck Gone With The Wind was still a Top 10 movie in 1941. I wonder how many of those #1 movies are in my database? I would think over 90% or maybe even higher. Anyway….great information as always.

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5. “61 Has Anybody Seen My Girl (1952)”
   should be
   “61 Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)”

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   1. Hey Sidney…Girl has been changed to Gal….thanks for the headsup.

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