10 iconic movies that shockingly lost money at the box office – This will shock you!

3. The Diary Of Anne Frank – Lost $1.5 million

via:20th Century Fox

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name (the play, in turn, having been based on the real-life diary of Anne Frank – a young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in the Netherlands during World War II). Directed by George Stevens, the film starred Millie Perkins as Anne Frank and Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank (with Schildkraut reprising his role from the stage production).

The movie was received brilliantly by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards – three of which it won. In spite of that great critical reception, it only made $2.3 million at the box office, having cost $3.8 million to make.