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Hollywood's moviemakers are only mildly interested in what the critics think are the "best" pictures of the year. The really important results of 1947, to cinemoguls, were published in Variety's jumbo-size (250 pp.) anniversary issue: the 75 pictures of 1947 which grossed (or are estimated...
The ten top-grossing pictures:
The ten top-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...
The five top-grossing companies (figured on pictures which grossed $2,000,000 plus): MGM, $50,900,000 on 15 pictures; Paramount, $48,050,000 on 13; RKO, $39,050,000, on ten; Warner, $38,800,000 on 14; 20th Century-Fox, $35,750,000 on ten.
Except for his good looks, which are considerably above average, Gregory Peck is an average young man who has made a fairly fast and dizzying jump to movie stardom. Since his arrival in Hollywood four years ago, he has carried a large part of the burden of an aggregate Hollywood...