Top-earning actor
Fredric March
$484,687
Salary list (House Ways & Means)Reported
About $10.8 million in 2025 dollars
The highest-paid performer of 1937.
The Studio Era · 1930s
1937
Top-earning actress
Greta Garbo
$472,499
Salary list (House Ways & Means)Reported
About $10.6 million in 2025 dollars
Only $12,188 behind March.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1937
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Saratoga
$2.4 million
- 2
Maytime
$2.2 million
- 3
The Good Earth
$2 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.