Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Backed by $300,000 in Legion funds, the show opened last October in Los Angeles. It was a professional production but an obvious flop. It wheezed eastward, losing money steadily, except in such Legion strongholds as Indianapolis and Topeka. In Chicago, the Legionnaires decided not to let the deficit get any bigger. This week the show folded...
...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...
...Intellectual Flop...