Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
...professional actor for 25 of his 27 years, Mickey Rooney has grown into a performer of considerable skill. In times past, he has been one of Hollywood's biggest box-office attractions. But he obviously cannot go through life playing Andy Hardy. (Says Mickey: "Let's face it. ... I'm practically an old roué.") Since his release from the Army two years ago, Mickey's future as a movie star has been problematical...
After months of financial calamity-howling, the seven major studios last week found that in 1947-despite the British tax, several box-office slumps and a 12% jump in production costs-they had netted (after taxes) about $96,000,000.* It was, to be sure, 23% less than they had collected in 1946, but it was more than the movies had made in any year before that...
Meanwhile, the winter of box-office discontent was over, and an encouraging amount of spring green was beginning to show in the exhibitors' till. Variety listed the recent box office leaders...
...Miracle of the Bells (RKO Radio), an adaptation of Russell Janney's fragrant bestseller, is a "religious movie" -of a sort. Its box-office gross should be a fair measure of the depths of U.S. pseudo-religious depravity...