Word: boxful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hoover could say that the day of the gangster was over. His G-men were the new popular heroes, immortalized ever since on the screen and on the air, and on a thousand box tops, bearing the morning cereal to American boys. The pursuers, not the pursued, had become the object of hero worshipers' affections...
...News Chronicle raised a lone voice of dissent: '"Forgive me dear. I can't cry,' said the Salesman's wife over his grave . . . Forgive me, Paul Mum, but I can't cry either." The driest eyes of all, however, were those of the box-office clerks, busily selling tickets for ten weeks ahead...
...board's hearings began in Manhattan last week, Big Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds found himself in something of a psychological box. The hearings opened just as U.S. Steel issued its mid-year earnings report to stockholders. Since profits were 76% above 1948's first half, Olds had a hard time explaining that past profits were no remedy for the steel industry's present situation, with orders having fallen off so much that production had been cut back 30% in a matter of ten weeks...
...three members of this delightful family get into the movies, and each one on his own becomes a star. The rest of the film is composed of snitches and snatches from the family album of box-office hits-including some black & white satires of silent films in which Anne Baxter plays a frizzed girl of the '20s with a highly energetic twittering of legs and lashes...
...role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...