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...Duel...
...grossing stars:* Jennifer Jones is rated (with just one picture -Duel} as a $10,750,000 star; Gregory Peck, with two pictures, rated an $8,000,000 average as a customer-puller; Linda Darnell (with one), $8,000,000; Gary Cooper (with one), $7,500,000; Teresa Wright (with two), $7,200,000; Dana Andrews (with two), $6,875,000; William Powell (with one), $6,250,000; Irene Dunne (with one), $6,250,000; Bing Crosby (with one), $6,100,000; Larry Parks (with...
...just when he has a chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun and Darryl Zanuck's Forever Amber, both of which had been frowned on by the Legion of Decency...
Like many actors, he is sanguine about a piece of work while he is at it, but he soon cools into a stern self-critic. During the filming of Duel in the Sun, he talked -jocosely, to be sure-about out-heeling Satan and out-Laurencing Olivier. Now he says of Duel: "I didn't do much acting. I rode horses, necked with Jennifer, and shot poor old Charley Bickford." Of Valley of Decision: "My agent wanted me to be seen with a big female star. Greer's audience, he said, will be a good thing...
...There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS), "reporting" the Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel...