This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1960 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
# | Week ending | Film | Notes | Ref |
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1 | January 6, 1960 | Operation Petticoat | [1] | |
2 | January 13, 1960 | [2] | ||
3 | January 20, 1960 | [3] | ||
4 | January 27, 1960 | [1] | ||
5 | February 3, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur reached number one in its eleventh week of release | [4] |
6 | February 10, 1960 | [5] | ||
7 | February 17, 1960 | On the Beach | [6] | |
8 | February 24, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur returned to number one in its 14th week of release | [7] |
9 | March 2, 1960 | [8] | ||
10 | March 9, 1960 | [9] | ||
11 | March 16, 1960 | [10] | ||
12 | March 23, 1960 | [11] | ||
13 | March 30, 1960 | [12] | ||
14 | April 6, 1960 | [13] | ||
15 | April 13, 1960 | [14] | ||
16 | April 20, 1960 | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | [15] | |
17 | April 27, 1960 | [16] | ||
18 | May 4, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur returned to number one in its 24th week of release | [17] |
19 | May 11, 1960 | [18] | ||
20 | May 18, 1960 | [19] | ||
21 | May 25, 1960 | [20] | ||
22 | June 1, 1960 | [21] | ||
23 | June 8, 1960 | [22] | ||
24 | June 15, 1960 | [23] | ||
25 | June 22, 1960 | Ben-Hur grossed in excess of $409,000 in the key cities sampled | [24] | |
26 | June 29, 1960 | [25] | ||
27 | July 6, 1960 | Bells Are Ringing | [26] | |
28 | July 13, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur returned to number one in its 34th week of release | [27] |
29 | July 20, 1960 | [28] | ||
30 | July 27, 1960 | [29] | ||
31 | August 3, 1960 | [30] | ||
32 | August 10, 1960 | [31] | ||
33 | August 17, 1960 | Ocean's 11 | [32] | |
34 | August 24, 1960 | [33] | ||
35 | August 31, 1960 | [34] | ||
36 | September 7, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur returned to number one in its 42nd week of release | [35] |
37 | September 14, 1960 | [36] | ||
38 | September 21, 1960 | [37] | ||
39 | September 28, 1960 | [38] | ||
40 | October 5, 1960 | [39] | ||
41 | October 12, 1960 | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | [40] | |
42 | October 19, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur returned to number one in its 48th week of release | [41] |
43 | October 26, 1960 | [42] | ||
44 | November 2, 1960 | [43] | ||
45 | November 9, 1960 | Midnight Lace | [44] | |
46 | November 16, 1960 | BUtterfield 8 | [45] | |
47 | November 23, 1960 | [46] | ||
48 | November 30, 1960 | [47] | ||
49 | December 7, 1960 | [48] | ||
50 | December 14, 1960 | Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur returned to number one in its 56th week of release | [49] |
51 | December 21, 1960 | Cinderfella | [50] | |
52 | December 28, 1960 | Exodus | [51] | |
The highest-grossing films during the calendar year based on theatrical rentals were as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Rental [52] |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ben-Hur | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | $17,300,000 |
2 | South Pacific | 20th Century Fox-Magna | $9,900,000 [53] [54] |
3 | Psycho | Paramount Pictures | $8,500,000 |
4 | Operation Petticoat | Universal Pictures | $6,800,000 |
5 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Columbia Pictures | $5,500,000 |
6 | On the Beach | United Artists | $5,300,000 |
7 | Solomon and Sheba | $5,250,000 | |
8 | The Apartment | $5,100,000 | |
9 | From the Terrace | 20th Century Fox | $5,000,000 |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | ||
A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket. By extension, the term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theatre show, receives.
South Pacific is a 1958 American romantic musical film based on the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which in turn is loosely based on James A. Michener's 1947 short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific. The film, directed by Joshua Logan, stars Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr and Ray Walston in the leading roles with Juanita Hall as Bloody Mary, the part that she had played in the original stage production. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Sound for Fred Hynes. It is set in 1943, during World War II, on an island in the South Pacific.
$16,300,000
$6,400,000