1938 in film

List of years in film (table)
In television
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.

Events

Top grossing films (U.S.)[1]

At the time, box office numbers were reported as a percentage of business for each theater in comparison to 'normal' business. For example, Alexander's Ragtime Band performed at 227% and The Adventures of Robin Hood at 170%. This is why exact dollar grosses for films are unreliable at best.

Rank Title Studio Actors
1. Alexander's Ragtime Band 20th Century Fox Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche
2. Test Pilot MGM Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore
3. Boys Town MGM Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood Warner Bros. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
5. You Can't Take It with You Columbia Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore and James Stewart
6. Sweethearts MGM Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
7. Marie Antoinette MGM Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley
8. Happy Landing 20th Century Fox Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Cesar Romero and Ethel Merman
9. Angels with Dirty Faces Warner Bros. James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart
10. Out West with the Hardys MGM Mickey Rooney
11. Too Hot to Handle MGM Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon
12. That Certain Age Universal Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas
13. Mad About Music Universal Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall
14. The Girl of the Golden West MGM Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy
15. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Paramount Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper
16. The Buccaneer Paramount Fredric March, Walter Brennan
17. The Dawn Patrol Warner Bros. Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven
18. Stablemates MGM Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney
19. Suez 20th Century Fox Tyrone Power, Loretta Young
20. Kentucky 20th Century Fox Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan

Academy Awards

Notable films released in 1938

U.S.A. unless stated

AB

CD

EF

GH

IJK

LM

NOP

QRS

TUV

WXYZ

Serials

Comedy film series

Animated short film series

Births

Deaths

Debuts

References

  1. Box Office Digest, March 1939, p.18
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