The Big Grossers

Cinema's 95 biggest box-office hits ($4,000,000 or more) were listed last week by the trade sheet Variety as "AllTime Top Grossers."

The first ten:

1) Gone With the Wind (1939), $26,000,000.

2) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), $12,800,000.

3) Quo Vadis (1952), $10,500,000.

4) The Best Years of Our Lives (1947), $10,400,000.

5) Duel in the Sun (1947), $10,000,000.

6) Samson and Delilah (1950), $9,000,000.

7) This Is the Army (1943), $8,500,000.

8) The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), $8,000,000.

9) The Jolson Story (1947 ), $8,000,000.

10) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), $7,150,000.

Such recent pictures as No. 14, The Snows of Kilimanjaro ($6,500,000), will probably rise as they continue to play around the world. A few well-remembered oldtimers are still on the list: No. 21, The Big Parade (1925), with John Gilbert, $5,500,000; No. 46, The Four Horsemen (1921), with Rudolph Valentino, $4,500,000; No. 83, Ben Hur (1926), with Ramon Novarro, $4,000,000.

D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) has grossed millions, but no official records were ever kept.

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