Top Grossing Movies 1940s

1940 
Boom Town 
The Great Dictator 
Rebecca 
The Philadelphia Story 
Strike Up the Band 
Northwest Passage 
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante 
The Fighting 69th 
Santa Fe Trail 
Kitty Foyle 

1941 
Sergeant York 
Honky Tonk 
Louisiana Purchase 
How Green Was My Valley 
Caught in the Draft 
A Yank in the R.A.F. 
Men of Boys Town 
Ziegfeld Girl 
They Died with Their Boots On 
Ball of Fire 

1942
Mrs. Miniver
Random Harvest
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Reap the Wild Wind
Road to Morocco
Holiday Inn
Wake Island
The Pride of the Yankees
For Me and My Gal
Somewhere I’ll Find You

1943
This is the Army
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Song of Bernadette
Stage Door Canteen
Star Spangled Rhythm
Thousands Cheer
Casablanca
Coney Island
Hitler’s Children
Dixie

1944
Going My Way 
Meet Me in St. Louis 
Since You Went Away 
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The White Cliffs of Dover
A Guy Named Joe 
Hollywood Canteen 
Frenchman’s Creek
Bathing Beauty
Destination Tokyo

1945
The Bells of St. Mary’s
Leave Her to Heaven
Spellbound
The Valley of Decision
Anchors Aweigh
Week-End at the Waldorf
Thrill of a Romance
The Lost Weekend
State Fair
The Dolly Sisters

1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
Duel in the Sun
The Jolson Story
Blue Skies
The Harvey Girls
Saratoga Trunk
The Outlaw
The Razor’s Edge
Night and Day
Notorious
The Yearling

1947
Welcome Stranger
The Egg and I
Unconquered
Life with Father
Forever Amber
Road to Rio
Green Dolphin Street
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Mother Wore Tights
Cass Timberlane

1948
The Red Shoes
Red River
The Paleface
Johnny Belinda
Easter Parade
The Three Musketeers
The Snake Pit
The Emperor Waltz
Homecoming
Sitting Pretty

1949
Jolson Sings Again
Battleground
I Was a Male War Bride
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Stratton Story
Pinky
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Neptune’s Daughter
Little Women
Sorrowful Jones