--- description: A lot of regular moviegoers were staying home. Variety blamed it on bad weather, so-so pictures and "income-tax blues." After winning nine Oscars (TIME, March 24), Sam Goldwyn's The... title: Cinema: Early Spring Box Office image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Cinema: Early Spring Box Office by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 7, 1947 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 7, 1947 5:00 AM CUT A lot of regular moviegoers were staying home. Variety blamed it on bad weather, so-so pictures and “income-tax blues.” After winning nine Oscars (TIME, March 24), Sam Goldwyn’s The Best Years of Our Lives jumped from sixth to first place among box-office favorites. The big attractions: 1) The Best Years of Our Lives (RKO Radio) 2) Pursued (Warner) and Boomerang! (20th Century-Fox) 3) The Jolson Story (Columbia) 4) Nora Prentiss (Warner) 5) The Beginning or the End (MGM) and Sinbad the Sailor (RKO Radio) 6) Song of Scheherezade (Universal-International) and Suddenly It’s Spring (Paramount). Cinema: Early Spring Box Office ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6606475/cinema-early-spring-box-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6606475/cinema-early-spring-box-office/"},"headline":"Cinema: Early Spring Box Office","datePublished":"1947-04-07T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T04:19:48.416Z","description":"A lot of regular moviegoers were staying home. Variety blamed it on bad weather, so-so pictures and \"income-tax blues.\" After winning nine Oscars (TIME, March 24), Sam Goldwyn's The...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6606475/cinema-early-spring-box-office/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6606475/cinema-early-spring-box-office/","name":"Cinema: Early Spring Box Office"}}]}] ```