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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1959 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

Number-one films

# Week ending Film Notes Ref
1 January 7, 1959 N/A No survey published
2 January 14, 1959 Auntie Mame Auntie Mame grossed $380,000 from 19 key cities sampled
3 January 21, 1959 Auntie Mame grossed $355,000 from the cities sampled
4 January 28, 1959 Some Came Running
5 February 4, 1959 Auntie Mame
6 February 11, 1959
7 February 18, 1959 Separate Tables
8 February 25, 1959 Sleeping Beauty
9 March 4, 1959 Separate Tables
10 March 11, 1959 Sleeping Beauty
11 March 18, 1959
12 March 25, 1959 Rio Bravo
13 April 1, 1959 Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot reached number one in its second week of release
14 April 8, 1959
15 April 15, 1959
16 April 22, 1959 Imitation of Life Imitation of Life reached number one in its fifth week of release
17 April 29, 1959
18 May 6, 1959 Some Like It Hot Some Like It Hot returned to number one in its seventh week of release with a gross of around $280,000
19 May 13, 1959
20 May 20, 1959
21 May 27, 1959
22 June 3, 1959 Pork Chop Hill
23 June 10, 1959 The Young Philadelphians
24 June 17, 1959 Ask Any Girl Ask Any Girl reached number one in its second week of release
25 June 24, 1959 Say One for Me
26 July 1, 1959 The Horse Soldiers
27 July 8, 1959 The Nun's Story
28 July 15, 1959
29 July 22, 1959 A Hole in the Head
30 July 29, 1959 The Nun's Story The Nun's Story grossed more than $300,000 in the cities sampled
31 August 5, 1959 Anatomy of a Murder
32 August 12, 1959 North by Northwest
33 August 19, 1959
34 August 26, 1959
35 September 2, 1959
36 September 9, 1959
37 September 16, 1959
38 September 23, 1959
39 September 30, 1959 That Kind of Woman
40 October 7, 1959 But Not for Me
41 October 14, 1959 The FBI Story
42 October 21, 1959 Pillow Talk Pillow Talk reached number one in its second week of release
43 October 28, 1959
44 November 4, 1959 Pillow Talk grossed more than $275,000 in the key cities sampled
45 November 11, 1959
46 November 18, 1959
47 November 25, 1959
48 December 2, 1959 A Summer Place
49 December 9, 1959
50 December 16, 1959 Pillow Talk Pillow Talk returned to number one in its tenth week of release
51 December 23, 1959 On the Beach On the Beach grossed over $200,000 from five key cities sampled
52 December 30, 1959 N/A No survey published. Solomon and Sheba was the December champion based on grosses from its release in the last week of the year

Highest-grossing films

The highest-grossing films during the calendar year based on theatrical rentals were as follows:

Rank Title Distributor Rental
1 Auntie Mame Warner Bros. $8,800,000
2 The Shaggy Dog Buena Vista $7,800,000
3 Some Like It Hot United Artists $7,000,000
4 Imitation of Life Universal Pictures $6,200,000
5 The Nun's Story Warner Bros. $6,000,000
6 Anatomy of a Murder Columbia Pictures $5,250,000
North by Northwest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
8 Rio Bravo Warner Bros. $5,100,000
9 Around the World in 80 Days United Artists $4,400,000
10 Sleeping Beauty Buena Vista $4,300,000

See also

References

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  52. "All-Time Domestic Champs". Variety. January 6, 1960. p. 34. $22,000,000
  53. "All-Time B.O. Champs". Variety. January 7, 1959. p. 9. Retrieved January 3, 2021 – via Archive.org. $17,600,000
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