Top-earning actor
Tom Mix
≈ $910,000
$17,500 a week, annualizedEstimate
About $16.9 million in 2025 dollars
No salary list survives; the figure repeats Mix's peak Fox rate.
The Jazz Age · 1920s
1927
Top-earning actress
Colleen Moore
≈ $650,000
$12,500 a week, annualizedEstimate
About $12.1 million in 2025 dollars
The bobbed-hair flapper was First National's biggest draw and earned $12,500 a week at her peak.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1927
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
The King of Kings
$2.6 million
- 2
The Jazz Singer
$2 million
- 3
7th Heaven
$1.8 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.