
Top-earning actor
Bing Crosby
$318,907
U.S. Treasury salary listReported
About $7.5 million in 2025 dollars
The crooner topped the actors on the 1935 list, ahead of Gary Cooper ($311,000).
The Studio Era · 1930s

Top-earning actor
$318,907
U.S. Treasury salary listReported
About $7.5 million in 2025 dollars
The crooner topped the actors on the 1935 list, ahead of Gary Cooper ($311,000).

Top-earning actress
$480,833
U.S. Treasury salary listReported
About $11.3 million in 2025 dollars
The highest-paid woman in America and the second-highest-paid person, after William Randolph Hearst.
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales

$2.2 million

$1.8 million

$1.7 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.