Top-earning actor
Cary Grant
$700,000
10% of the gross, To Catch a ThiefDeal
About $8.4 million in 2025 dollars
Grant received more than $700,000 for his 10% of the gross; Hitchcock got less than $50,000 for directing and producing.
Points, Not Paychecks · 1950s
1955
Top-earning actress: unknown
Likeliest: Susan Hayward
No reliable figure
No salary figure survives for 1955. Susan Hayward, Doris Day and Jane Russell are the likeliest candidates.
Her films that year
Box office champions of 1955
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Cinerama Holiday
$10 million
- 2
Mister Roberts
$8.5 million
- 3
Battle Cry
$8.1 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.