1940 in film

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia.

List of years in film
In television
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
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Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1940 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1940
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Boom Town MGM $3,664,000[1]
2 The Great Dictator United Artists $3,500,000[2]
3 Rebecca United Artists/Selznick International $3,000,000[3]
4 The Philadelphia Story MGM $2,374,000[1]
5 Strike Up the Band $2,265,000[1]
6 Northwest Passage $2,169,000[1]
7 Andy Hardy Meets Debutante $1,945,000[1]
8 The Fighting 69th Warner Bros. $1,822,000[4]
9 Santa Fe Trail $1,748,000[4]
10 Kitty Foyle RKO $1,710,000[5][6]

Events

Academy Awards

1940 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Notable films released in 1940

United States unless stated

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E

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G

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I

J

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P

Q

R

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T

V

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Serials

Short film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Debuts

References

  1. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. Susan Sackett, The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits Billboard Books, 1996 p 28
  3. Chapman, James (2018). Hitchcock and the Spy Film. ISBN 978-1-78076-844-1. Although his most successful films of the war years were Selznick pictures – Rebecca (with a domestic box office gross of $3 million) and Spellbound ($4.9 million), with Rebecca also winning the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 – Hitchcock seems on the whole to have preferred his other assignments where he evidently enjoyed greater creative freedom.
  4. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 20 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  5. Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "RKO Film Grosses, 1929-1951: the C.J. Tevlin ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (1): 37–49. doi:10.1080/01439689400260031.
  6. Jewell, Richard B. (1994). "Appendix 1". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 14 (S1): 1–11. doi:10.1080/01439689408604545.
  7. Coveney, Michael (28 January 2017). "Sir John Hurt obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  8. Anderson, Tre'vell (July 16, 2017). "George A. Romero, 'Night of the Living Dead' creator, dies at 77". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
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