Top-earning actor
Paul Newman
≈ $1,200,000
About $1.2 million a filmEstimate
About $10 million in 2025 dollars
Newman was the top-paid star of the moment; Lee Marvin, at $1 million a film, was $200,000 behind.
New Hollywood · 1970s
1970
Top-earning actress
Barbra Streisand
≈ $1,000,000
Fee for The Owl and the PussycatEstimate
About $8.3 million in 2025 dollars
Her first $1 million fee.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1970
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Love Story
$50 million
- 2
Airport
$44.5 million
- 3
M*A*S*H
$30 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.