List of 1959 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1959 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.

Number-one films

# Week ending Film Notes Ref
1 January 7, 1959 N/A No survey published
2 January 14, 1959 Auntie Mame Auntie Mame grossed $380,000 from 19 key cities sampled [1]
3 January 21, 1959 Auntie Mame grossed $355,000 from the cities sampled [2]
4 January 28, 1959 Some Came Running [3]
5 February 4, 1959 Auntie Mame [4]
6 February 11, 1959 [5]
7 February 18, 1959 Separate Tables [6]
8 February 25, 1959 Sleeping Beauty [7]
9 March 4, 1959 Separate Tables [8]
10 March 11, 1959 Sleeping Beauty [9]
11 March 18, 1959 [10]
12 March 25, 1959 Rio Bravo [11]
13 April 1, 1959 Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot reached number one in its second week of release [12]
14 April 8, 1959 [13]
15 April 15, 1959 [14]
16 April 22, 1959 Imitation of Life Imitation of Life reached number one in its fifth week of release [15]
17 April 29, 1959 [16]
18 May 6, 1959 Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot returned to number one in its seventh week of release with a gross of around $280,000 [17]
19 May 13, 1959 [18]
20 May 20, 1959 [19]
21 May 27, 1959 [20]
22 June 3, 1959 Pork Chop Hill [21]
23 June 10, 1959 The Young Philadelphians [22]
24 June 17, 1959 Ask Any Girl Ask Any Girl reached number one in its second week of release [23]
25 June 24, 1959 Say One for Me [24]
26 July 1, 1959 The Horse Soldiers [25]
27 July 8, 1959 The Nun's Story [26]
28 July 15, 1959 [27]
29 July 22, 1959 A Hole in the Head [27]
30 July 29, 1959 The Nun's Story The Nun's Story grossed more than $300,000 in the cities sampled [28]
31 August 5, 1959 Anatomy of a Murder [29]
32 August 12, 1959 North by Northwest [30]
33 August 19, 1959 [31]
34 August 26, 1959 [32]
35 September 2, 1959 [33]
36 September 9, 1959 [34]
37 September 16, 1959 [35]
38 September 23, 1959 [36]
39 September 30, 1959 That Kind of Woman [37]
40 October 7, 1959 But Not for Me [38]
41 October 14, 1959 The FBI Story [39]
42 October 21, 1959 Pillow Talk Pillow Talk reached number one in its second week of release [40]
43 October 28, 1959 [41]
44 November 4, 1959 Pillow Talk grossed more than $275,000 in the key cities sampled [42]
45 November 11, 1959 [43]
46 November 18, 1959 [44]
47 November 25, 1959 [45]
48 December 2, 1959 A Summer Place [46]
49 December 9, 1959 [47]
50 December 16, 1959 Pillow Talk Pillow Talk returned to number one in its tenth week of release [48]
51 December 23, 1959 On the Beach On the Beach grossed over $200,000 from five key cities sampled [49]
52 December 30, 1959 N/A No survey published. Solomon and Sheba was the December champion based on grosses from its release in the last week of the year [50]

Highest-grossing films

The highest-grossing films during the calendar year based on theatrical rentals were as follows:

Rank Title Distributor Rental[51]
1 Auntie Mame Warner Bros. $8,800,000
2 The Shaggy Dog Buena Vista $7,800,000
3 Some Like It Hot United Artists $7,000,000
4 Imitation of Life Universal Pictures $6,200,000
5 The Nun's Story Warner Bros. $6,000,000
6 Anatomy of a Murder Columbia Pictures $5,250,000
North by Northwest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
8 Rio Bravo Warner Bros. $5,100,000
9 Around the World in 80 Days United Artists $4,400,000[52][53]
10 Sleeping Beauty Buena Vista $4,300,000

See also

References

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  5. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. February 11, 1959. p. 5. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  6. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. February 18, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  7. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. February 25, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
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  14. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. April 15, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
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  17. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. May 6, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  18. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. May 13, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  19. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. May 20, 1959. p. 3. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  20. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. May 27, 1959. p. 7. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
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  23. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. June 17, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Archive.org.
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  29. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. August 5, 1959. p. 7. Retrieved December 24, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  30. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. August 12, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved December 24, 2020 – via Archive.org.
  31. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. August 19, 1959. p. 4. Retrieved December 24, 2020 – via Archive.org.
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  37. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. September 30, 1959. p. 4.
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  39. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. October 14, 1959. p. 7.
  40. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. October 21, 1959. p. 7.
  41. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. October 28, 1959. p. 4.
  42. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. November 4, 1959. p. 4.
  43. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. November 11, 1959. p. 7.
  44. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. November 18, 1959. p. 10.
  45. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. November 25, 1959. p. 4.
  46. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. December 2, 1959. p. 13.
  47. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. December 9, 1959. p. 19.
  48. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. December 16, 1959. p. 5.
  49. ^ "National Boxoffice Survey". Variety. December 23, 1959. p. 4.
  50. ^ Wear, Mike (January 13, 1960). "'Solomon' Shows Boxoffice Glory; 'Petticoat,' 'Beach' December's 2, 3; Holiday's Surge Very Cheery". Variety. p. 11.
  51. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take". Variety. January 6, 1960. p. 34.
  52. ^ "All-Time Domestic Champs". Variety. January 6, 1960. p. 34. $22,000,000
  53. ^ "All-Time B.O. Champs". Variety. January 7, 1959. p. 9. Retrieved January 3, 2021 – via Archive.org. $17,600,000
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