Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll

The Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll was published from a questionnaire given to movie exhibitors every year between 1932 and 2013 by Quigley Publishing Company.

The list was based on a poll of movie theater owners, who were asked to name who they felt were the previous year's top 10 moneymaking stars. The Top 10 Poll which appeared annually in Quigley's International Motion Picture Almanac has long been regarded as one of the most reliable barometers of a movie star's box-office power, as film exhibitors base their decisions on one economic criterion: those stars who will bring patrons into their theaters.

In addition to the top ten stars for that year, the Quigley Poll would commonly list the next 15 stars as well. A sample of these are below:

1) Marie Dressler 2) Janet Gaynor 3) Joan Crawford 4) Charles Farrell 5) Greta Garbo 6) Norma Shearer 7) Wallace Beery 8) Clark Gable 9) Will Rogers 10) Joe E. Brown 11) Marx Brothers & Wheeler & Woolsey (tied) 12) Eddie Cantor 13) Maurice Chevalier 14) Constance Bennett 15) George Arliss 16) James Dunn 17) Sally Eilers 18) Marlene Dietrich 19) Lionel Barrymore 20) Jackie Cooper 21) Barbara Stanwyck 22) Edward G. Robinson 23) George O'Brien 24) Warner Baxter 25) Richard Dix

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