Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Monica, Calif., Bing Crosby, 43 and balding, entered a hospital for a checkup the day after U.S. movie exhibitors* voted him box-office champion of the year-as he had been voted the three previous years. Next-most-magnetic, reported the exhibitors, was blonde Betty Grable, who also sings. Third best crowd-puller: Ingrid Bergman, even though no new Bergman movie was released all year...
Peck, at 31, has moved up into a secure place on the list of the nation's top ten box-office draws. He can count on 5,000 fan letters a week. He has been respectfully mentioned four times as a candidate for the Academy Award; his performance in Gentleman's Agreement makes him a red-hot contender for the 1947 Oscar...
...laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part of New Jersey. He once fell asleep in a box while his charges outstayed (by an outrageous 20 minutes) their free glimpse of a Radio City show...
Pieces of Peck. Hollywood, a hard place to get into, is even harder to leave, once you're in. Peck's "one" picture, Days of Glory, was a rather pathetic Hollywood attempt to make a Russian-style "art" movie. It was not a box-office success; but before it was released and before most of Hollywood had even seen it, Peck was one of the most sought-after properties in town...
...Communist-dominated Poland, defendants in the nearly continuous political trials usually "confess" and "repent" before the ax falls. But last week, from a crude, unpainted witness box in the center of a Warsaw courtroom, a courageous Pole on trial for his life departed from the Moscow purge trial tradition and spoke his unrepentant mind. Poles considered his behavior sensational...