Top-earning actor
Richard Burton
$1,250,000
Fee for Anne of the Thousand DaysDeal
About $11 million in 2025 dollars
Burton earned $1.25 million to play Henry VIII.
The Million-Dollar Star · 1960s
1969
Top-earning actress
Barbra Streisand
≈ $750,000
Fee for Hello, Dolly!Estimate
About $6.6 million in 2025 dollars
Her second film, after taking $200,000 for Funny Girl.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1969
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
$29.2 million
- 2
The Love Bug
$21 million
- 3
Midnight Cowboy
$20.5 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.