Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1939

Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
to Date
January 1939
January 1 The Bronze Buckaroo (Limited)  
 
January 6 Pacific Liner (Limited)  
 
January 7 The Phantom Creeps (Limited) Universal  
 
January 13 Burn ’Em Up O’Connor (Limited) MGM  
Son of Frankenstein (Limited)  
 
January 14 King of the Underworld (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
January 27 Jesse James (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
January 28 They Made Me a Criminal (Limited) Warner Bros.  
March 1939
March 3 The Oklahoma Kid (Limited) Warner Bros.  
Stagecoach (Limited) United Artists  
 
March 13 Rough Riders’ Round-Up (Limited) Republic Pictures  
 
March 17 Goofy and Wilbur (Limited)  
The Little Princess (Limited)  
 
March 24 Midnight (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
March 29 The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (Wide) $1,100,000
 
March 31 The Hound of the Baskervilles (Limited)  
April 1939
April 22 Dark Victory (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 24 Juarez (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
April 27 Donald’s Cousin Gus (Limited)  
May 1939
May 5 Union Pacific (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
May 19 It's A Wonderful World (Limited)  
 
May 20 You Can’t Get Away with Murder (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
May 25 Only Angels Have Wings (Limited) Columbia  
June 1939
June 2 The Gracie Allen Murder Case (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
Young Mr. Lincoln (Limited) 20th Century Fox  
 
June 19 In Old Caliente (Limited) Republic Pictures  
July 1939
July 24 Beau Geste (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
August 1939
August 1 Mr. Wong in Chinatown (Limited)  
 
August 16 The Old Maid (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
August 19 Each Dawn I Die (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
August 25 The Wizard of Oz (Wide) Warner Bros. $35,572,006
September 1939
September 1 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Limited)  
The Women (Limited) MGM  
 
September 29 Dancing Co-Ed (Limited)  
Honeymoon in Bali (Limited)  
Rio (Limited) Universal  
 
September 30 Espionage Agent (Limited) Warner Bros.  
October 1939
October 13 Jamaica Inn (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
October 17 Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (Wide) Sony Pictures $9,000,000
 
October 27 The Cat and the Canary (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
Disputed Passage (Limited) Paramount Pictures  
 
October 28 The Roaring Twenties (Limited)  
 
October 29 Le Quai de brumes (Limited) $35,962
November 1939
November 3 Ninotchka (Wide) $1,200,000
 
November 4 Kid Nightingale (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
November 11 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Limited) Warner Bros.  
 
November 17 Another Thin Man (Limited) MGM  
 
November 30 Destry Rides Again (Limited) Universal  
December 1939
December 2 The Return of Doctor X (Limited)  
 
December 15 Gone with the Wind (Exclusive) MGM $198,680,470
 
December 29 The Cisco Kid and the Lady (Limited)  
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Limited) RKO Radio Pictures  
 
December 30 Invisible Stripes (Limited) Warner Bros.