--- description: The ten most popular movies in the U.S. last month, according to the trade sheet Variety: 1) War and Peace (Paramount) 2) Tea and Sympathy (MGM) 3) The Solid Gold Cadillac (Columbia) 4) The Seven... title: Cinema: Box Office image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Cinema: Box Office (19 Nov 1956) by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 19, 1956 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 19, 1956 5:00 AM CUT The ten most popular movies in the U.S. last month, according to the trade sheet Variety: 1) War and Peace (Paramount) 2) Tea and Sympathy (MGM) 3) The Solid Gold Cadillac (Columbia) 4) The Seven Wonders of the World (Independent) 5) The Best Things in Life Are Free (20th Century-Fox) 6) Oklahoma! (Magna) 7) Attack! (United Artists) 8) The Bad Seed (Warner) 9) Toward the Unknown (Warner) 10) Lust for Life (MGM) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6804899/cinema-box-office-16/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6804899/cinema-box-office-16/"},"headline":"Cinema: Box Office (19 Nov 1956)","datePublished":"1956-11-19T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-21T04:49:50.222Z","description":"The ten most popular movies in the U.S. last month, according to the trade sheet Variety: 1) War and Peace (Paramount) 2) Tea and Sympathy (MGM) 3) The Solid Gold Cadillac (Columbia) 4) The Seven...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6804899/cinema-box-office-16/","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/6804899/cinema-box-office-16/","name":"Cinema: Box Office (19 Nov 1956)"}}]}] ```