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...Something Important." Some critics argue that Actress Bel Geddes was a downright flop in pictures. The fact is that she was neither a success nor a failure. As the daughter in Mama, Barbara did well enough to be nominated for an Oscar.† She was distinctive in none of her pictures, but in none was she disastrous. Like a diamond in the wrong setting, she seemed simply to have lost the special radiance that marked her on the stage. In the proper setting, the radiance was quick to return...
...Mannix was a flop at Annapolis. On review, his uniform and brace were technically correct, but the total effect reminded the commandant of somebody "going duck hunting." The Mannix temperament was incorrigibly informal for Annapolis, and the Navy gave up at the end of his plebe year (1932). Dan Mannix found a new vocation for himself-and the makings of a lively little book-when he stopped to watch Flamo, the fire-eater, in a traveling carnival show...
...member of the Tech union said the idea actually is a "colossal flop...
When The Miracle was produced in Italy, it was a flop. It was exhibited at the 1948 Venice Film Festival, but failed to win a prize. The Catholic Cinematographic Center (Italian version of the U.S. Legion of Decency) blacklisted it as "an abominable profanation," and Catholic Action warned "zealous" Catholics not to see it. Italian audiences found it boring, and in its seven-month run it grossed less than $30,000-about half its cost...
...have been just another lackluster revue. But it lost at least $600,000, and thereby achieved a certain distinction. Except for 1926's The Ladder, which a free-spending angel kept running through two Broadway seasons in a nearly empty theater, Red, White and Blue was the costliest flop in U.S. theatrical history...