Thankfully we get lots of requests for new pages. Well…the wife recently informed me that my way of collecting my requests was pretty weak. She seems to think that writing down requests on whatever piece of paper or napkin or bill that is currently on my desk is not the way to do it. So….since she is way smarter than me….I have decided to create a page just for requests. Plus it should give a good idea of what pages are coming down the pike.
My logic in picking which page to do next….I lean heavily towards the subject that has the most requests.
- Roger Corman – request by Dan
- Peter Cushing – request made by SteveLensman, Dan & Brando 90
- Disney Live Action 1967-1980 – request by Mimic
- Foreign Movies requested by Laurent
- Samuel Goldwyn – request by Dan
- Sam Katzman – request by Dan
- Fritz Lang – request by Lupino, Just Me
- Bruce Lee – request by Brando 90
- Harold Lloyd – request by Søren, Me
- Henry Mancini – request by Flora
- Patricia Medina – request by Dan
- Mirisch Brothers – request by Dan
- Edward Small – request by Dan
- Rudolph Valentino – request by Laurent
Completed requests:
- Kurt Russell Facts – request by WoC – 4/27/17
- Gunfight At OK Corral Movies – request by Sunter – 4/26/17
- John Sturges – request by HotHam – 4/24/17
- Favorite Movies – request by LoP – 4/23/17
- Tim Conway – request by Cogerson – 4/20/17
- Fast & Furious Movies – request by Bry57 – 4/17/17
- 1945 Movies – request by LoP – 4/15/17
- Rosalind Russell – request by Chris – 4/12/17
- Vin Diesel – request by Bry57 – 4/11/17
- 1944 Movies – request by LoP – 4/9/17
- Going In Style – request by WoC – 4/6/17
- Don Ameche – request by Søren – 4/1/17
- 1943 Movies – request by LoP – 3/30/17
- Sylvia Sidney – request by Lupino – 3/27/17
- Marine Movies – request by Alex – 3/23/17
- 2017 Actress Tourney – request by me – 3/20/17
- 1937 Movies – request by LoP – 3/18/17
- 2017 Actor Tourney – request by me – 3/16/17
- Sonja Henie – request by Kevin – 3/14/17
- Emma Watson – request by Katie – 3/14/17
- 1938 Movies – request by LoP – 3/13/17
- Sean Penn – request by Hinton66 – 3/11/17
- Arlene Dahl – request by Flora – 3/8/17
- 1941 Movies – request by LoP – 3/6/17
- Cameron Crowe – request by Cogerson – 3/4/17
- Tony Curtis – request by Dan – written 3/2/17
- Bill Paxton – request by WoC – written 2/26/17
- 1980s Action Heroes – request by me – written 2/25/17
- Kathryn Grayson – request by Flora – written 2/24/17
- Ben Kingsley – request by Hinton1966 – written 2/22/17
- Donna Reed – request by John,Lupino – written 2/19/17
- Judd Nelson – request by Cogerson – written 2/17/17
- Dev Patel – request by Aarav – written 2/16/17
- Ray Milland – request by Chris – written 2/13/17
- Michael Bay – request by Tomlin – written 2/8/17
- Mario Lanza – request by BERN1960 – written 2/7/17
- Top Hits Through 1965 – request by me – written 2/5/17
- Margaret Sullavan – request by Lupino – written 2/3/17
- Time Travel Movies – request by Katie – written 2/2/17
- Danny Glover – request by Dan – written 2/1/17
- Clifton Webb – request by Cameron – written 1/29/17
- John Hurt – request by Scotty – written 1/27/17
- Dana Andrews – request by many – written 1/26/17
- Paul Giamatti – request by BryRog57 – written 1/24/17
- Priscilla Lane – request by Kevin & Lupino – written 1/22/17
- Richard Gere – request by Chris & WoC – written 1/18/17
- Van Heflin – request by Peterson – written 1/15/17
- Donald Trump – request by WoC – written 1/11/17
- Battle of the Legends – request by WoC – written 1/11/17
- Richard Dreyfuss – request by Hinton – written 1/10/17
- George Arliss – request by Top Billed – written 1/9/17
- Dick Powell – request by Top Billed – written 1/8/17
- Your Movie Sucks – request by J. Scott – written 1/6/17
- Jason Statham – request by Michael – written 1/4/17
- Wallace Beery – request by Søren – written 1/3/17
- December 2016 (9 requests written)1959 MoviesCarrie Fisher, Lyle Talbot,Video Game Movies,1976 Movies,George Lucas,Fredric March,Daniel Radcliffe,Virginia Mayo
- November 2016 (13 requests written) Nicole Kidman,Dorothy Lamour, Gail Russell, Victor Mature, Michael Biehn, Jeanette MacDonald, Donald Crisp,Paul Henreid,Linda Darnell, Christopher Plummer, Jean Arthur,Career Top Ticket Sellers,Ray Harryhausen
- October 2016 (12 requests written) Jake Gyllenhaal,Paulette Goddard,Justin Timberlake,Bad Blockbusters,Quigley 1939 Stars,Paul Muni,Gary Oldman,John Barrymore,Ronald Reagan,Robert Zemeckis,Warner Brothers Ledgers Trip,Sydney Greenstreet
- September 2016 (16 requests written) Jeremy Irons, Maureen O’Sullivan,Joel McCrea,Mr. Moto Movies,Who Is Next Brando?,Betty Hutton,Gene Wilder,Van Johnson,Richard Pryor,Top 200 Science Fiction Movies,627 Science Fiction Movies,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Robert Altman,Tiger Theater,Thelma Ritter, George C. Scott
- July 2016 (14 requests written) McClane vs Bourne,Frank Marshall,Kathleen Kennedy,Esther Williams,Mel Brooks,Vincente Minnelli,Tommy Lee Jones,Walter Pidgeon,Melissa McCarthy,Greer Garson,Garry & Penny Marshall,Gene Tierney,Steven Seagal,Walter Wanger
- June 2016 (15 requests written) Glenn Close,Audie Murphy,Sigourney Weaver,Robert Montgomery,Chevy Chase,Anton Yelchin,Josef von Sternberg,Michael J. Fox,George Stevens,Deanna Durbin,Ryan Gosling,Robert Taylor,John Goodman,Peter Sellers,Annette Bening
- May 2016 (12 requests written) Robert Ryan,2016 Movies,Shelley Winters,Ernest Borgnine,Ann-Margret,Michael Fassbender,Yul Brynner,Tim Burton,John Williams,Jennifer Jones,Roger Moore, Western Movies
- April 2016 (13 requests written) Top 100 Westerns, Sally Field,Kay Francis, Leslie Howard, Diane Keaton, Top 100 Stars, Deborah Kerr, Top 25 Actresses 1950-2010, Top 25 Actors 1950-2010, Rob Reiner,Elia Kazan, Ice Cube, Fred MacMurray
- March 2016 (16 requests written)Top 100 Film Noir Movies, Warren Beatty, Movie of the Year, Keira Knightley, Film Noir Movies,George Cukor, Peter Lorre, Lucille Ball, Kevin Smith, Frank Capra,Claude Rains, Chuck Norris, Top 100 Musicals, Seth Rogen,Alan Ladd Movies, Daniel Craig Movies
- February 2016 (13 requests written) Lionel Barrymore Movies, AFI Top 100 Movies, AFI Top 50 Screen Legends,Mary Pickford, Drew Barrymore, Buster Keaton, Sam Peckinpah, Jessica Chastain, Lillian Gish, John Hughes, Richard Burton, Warren Oates, 1952 Top Grossing Movies,
- January 2016 (19 requests written) Kate Winslet, Claudette Colbert, Ben Stiller, Carole Lombard, Top Ticket Selling Movies, Edith Head, Joan Fontaine, Zoe Saldana,Ronald Colman, Stephen King Movies, Roy Scheider,Classic Movie Actor Stat Table ,Steve Carell, Glenn Ford, David Bowie, Samuel L. Jackson, Tarzan Movies.Francis Ford Coppola, Randolph Scot, Mark Ruffalo
- December 2015 (18 requests written) Anthony Quinn, Vincent Price, Peter O’Toole, Charles Laughton, Walter Brennan, Betty Grable, Best Christmas Movies, Terry Gilliam ,Natalie Wood, Paul Rudd, Rita Hayworth, Jason Bateman, David Niven, Fred Zinnemann, William Powell, Bruce Dern, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder
- November 2015 (10 requests written) Dan Patrick, David Lean ,Julianne Moore, Orson Welles, John Candy, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman Movies
- October 2015 (9 requests written) Cecil B. DeMille, Goldie Hawn ,Mickey Rooney , Andy Hardy Movies, Chris Evans Lauren Bacall ,Debbie Reynolds ,Ma and Pa Kettle Movies, Tom Hardy
- September 2015 (8 requests written) Ava Gardner, Emily Blunt , Jean Harlow , Kevin Costner, 1942 Top Grossing Movies ,Susan Sarandon , Abbott and Costello ,Screen Duos
Many more to come…have to find all of my old napkins and transfer the requests to this page.
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RE: Ryan Gosling. Three Canadians in a row. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saw The Big Short on the big screen last year.
But my favourite Ryan Goslin movie is another I saw ion the big screen….Hint hint hint —-Garner.
Jennifer Garner?
James Garner played Ryan Gosling as an older man in The Notebook……Duh……
Sorry I thought you were making another Garner request…..and since we already have a James…I thought you were asking for a Jennifer page. I of course knew Garner and Gosling both were Duke.
That’s cool. Jennifer Garner would be a good page to do. No apology necessary.
That should say has another ICON on the screen, hint hint Garner….
DEFOREST KELLEY please.
I will add Bones to the list.
I see you put your requests in ABC order. I like it. I see I only have one request while others have many. So how about adding in Walter Wanger to the list? Wanger was a great character who managed to make many movies back in the day. I am aware of him because my great grandfather and him were friends from their Dartmouth days. Through osmosis I have been a fan of his movies all of my life. Highlights would include Cleopatra and Arabian Nights. Maybe your site can shed some light on him.
Hey Stein….I figured it would be easier if I sorted them by alphabetical order. Interesting about Walter Wanger. I have added him to the page…but I do admit I am not really aware of him at all. I think when doing some research I have stumbled across his names a few times…..but sadly for him and your grandfather….his fame has not stood the test of time like Warners, Goldwyn, Selznick did. I do reserve the right to change my mind when I do the request and my Wanger knowledge expands. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you.
Sorry the last comment was supposed to say Thank you Cogerson. This where an edit button in the comment section would be very useful.
Hey Stein. I understand now….as first I was thinking when did I type this comment. I was going to delete it….but it was going to delete all the messages in this thread……so I will just change the comment to your name. Sorry that there is no “edit” button.
I have many because I am a film nerd.
Hey Flora I think we all are. I guess with you having numerous requests your pages get picked often. I now have three and I am curious how long before they appear. Of your requests the one I am most interested in is Telly S.
Isn’t Telly fabulous? This will look at movies, of course but how can you not love Kojak as well?
Telly will get a page one day.
Hey Stein & Flora…..I think film nerd…film geek would fit…..but I prefer to think of us as film historians.
I agree. It sounds dignified.
Hmm ‘film nuts’ might be more suitable… (stop it Steve!) 🙂
Hey Steve….I can live with film nuts too. Hey Flora….How about Film Nut Historian?
Re: title:
Film Historian, Film Nuts and Film Nut Historian:
Reminds me of the scene in The Thin Man where Myra Loy says “Serve the nuts.” Then she amends the statement to say “serve the guests the nuts.” 🙂
Hey Flora…Good call.
Bruce:
1 Greatly appreciate your adding DD to the requests list. Have never been able to get any box office information on her films with the exception of your Christmas Holiday figure. When you do get around to her it will be another prized collector’s item for me.
2 Agree with you about Grace Kelly. Of the 11 films that she made she was top-billed in just one, The Swan (1956); and according to Wikipedia it lost the equivalent of 7 million dollars in today’s money. Myrna Loy is another actress with high grosses which would probably as you put it “go through the floor” if only her top-bill performances were taken into account, and she was around in movies a lot longer than Grace.
3 Liked your Bill Holden page. When you see those grosses all lined up you can appreciate why the movie industry in the 50s nicknamed him ‘Golden Holden’ . Liz Taylor is usually regarded as the first star to receive a million dollars for a film (Cleopatra of course in 1963). Brando has also been mentioned as a “contender” (to use a pun!) with some historians saying he received an at- the- time unpublicised one million for 1960’s The Fugitive Kind.
4 However yet other experts reckon that the accolade goes to Golden. It is said that he arranged with Columbia Studios to pay him his large fee for 1957’s Bridge on the River in instalments over a period of years so that he had the double advantage of reducing his tax bill and earning interest on successive instalments of the fee that were held back. It is all supposed to have added up to a million in actual dollars..
5 Ironically therefore Bill’s co-star in Kwai, the late Sir Alec Guinness, records in his diaries that he found Holden a “nice man” but that unfortunately he used to drive Sir Alec and others on the set to distraction with constant moaning about general-business deals that had gone sour on him.
Will now eagerly keep a look out for your DD page
BOB ROY.
Hey Robert Roy….(1) She is now on the list…..I am sure at some point in the near future her small amount of movies (18 or so) will get her to the top of the list. My most recent page was 85 movies (3rd largest for a single performer)….usually like to follow that up with smaller more manageable total the next time out. (2) Yep Loy’s numbers would be very unimpressive if you took away the movies with co-star legends. Plus there would not be many either. (3) Working on the Heston update currently….he will jump up to 5th place on all-time grosses when I get that update down…then I want to do Jimmy Stewart. I still think when it is all said and done “Golden Holden” will end up in a very good spot.
(4) & (5) Holden probably had no idea of the gold mine he was sitting on while making BOTRK….probably turned out to be the smartest business decision he ever made. His heirs might still be getting checks to this day. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Bruce:
1 Thanks for the DD listing.
2 Your Heston list not only puts his box office career into brilliant context; but helps counter-balance the general lack of true appreciation that I feel that he has suffered over the years: I don’t think that he has ever been listed in the official Top Ten Box Office Stars of US and he is not considered to be one of AFI’s screen legends. Yet look at the string of all time high-grossing blockbusters that he has appeared in – and as their star. From 10 Commandments and Ben Hur in the 50s to Planet of the Apes in the 60s and Earthquake in the 70s. A curious man: he was a fanatical gun-control opponent (a stance normally associated with the US political ‘right’) and at the same time a champion of civil rights (usually a ‘left’ preserve). Also he was a close friend of Brando, who was not considered as ‘conservative’ enough by many in Hollywood.
3 I always thought that the ‘Top Ten’ was a highly subjective poll; and indeed I gather that it was compiled by theatre owners, who might not have had a true box-office overview. Certainly if those polls were objective I am at a loss to explain not only Chuck Heston’s exclusion but also many other contradictions. For example Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson,and Doris Day were all at their peak as big stars in the 50s and 60s; and whilst Rock and Doris appeared in the Top 10 many times during those decades and in the highest positions, Burt was recognised by the polls only two or three times and in much lower positions than the other two stars. Yet as you have demonstrated Burt’s films considerably out-grossed theirs. Indeed your ‘outdated’ Burt page shows him with higher grosses than those in Doris’ updated one!
4 It is said that the proof of the pudding is in the eating.; I therefore feel that with your objective statistical exercises in relation to the above-mentioned four stars (and others) you have been truly pudding proving ! Until you came along I don’t think that many people could have guessed that the ‘great’ Greta Garbo had such a relatively dismal box office record – and (as a Movie star) Elvis too for that matter
Hey Robert Roy….you will be happy to know that Deanna Durbin will be the next page….I flew right through 1936 to 1944….then I hit a brick wall….and having a real hard time finding much on the last third of her career. But I have a couple of sources left. Stuff I found interesting so far…..the first 6 movies of her career all got at least one Oscar nomination…that might be a record. I know John Cazelle was 5 for 5…but she is at 6…..and I think 11 of her first 12 movies.
(1) You are welcome.
(2) Heston was the man for a very long time. He should have been in the Top 10 many many times in his career.
(3) My wife’s grandfather used to run the Tiger theater in Auburn Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s. I asked my father-in-law if every saw his dad do the Top 10 survey. He remembers it being a popularity contest versus looking at actual box office grosses. He said every year…John Wayne went on the page…regardless if his movie failed (which actually did not happen too much) or not.
(4) Glad we have been able to help. Of all the pages we have done…Greta Garbo is the only one to do better overseas than in America. The last 1/3 of her career it was not even close when looking at domestic vs worldwide grosses.
(5) James Stewart will be the next classic performer to get his update. Back to the mid 1940s and more Durbin research.
Another Canadian! Deanna Durbin. Great. Canadian radar again…….LOL!
Hey Flora…your Canadian radar should be going off more….probably going to publish a Ryan Gosling page when I publish the Durbin page….to counter some of the eye rolling when the younger readers see the Durbin page pop up. I am sure you know which country Mr. Gosling was born in….that will be 3 Canadians in a row.
Bruce:
1 Generally you certainly go to much trouble to test your readers’ contentions !
2 I think that in the last 1/3 of DD’s short movie career the earnings of her films started to decline; and as you have said previously it can an uphill task trying to come by consistent statistics for Universal grosses. The Main in the Street such as I would have no hope of making much progress with such an exercise, and therefore a lot of reliance is placed on you. However please don’t think that I am seeking to pressurise you in the matter; to do so would be to not show proper respect for the massive body of research that you have already done across the board.
3 Undoubtedly many of the big stars in the Quigley Top 10 endeared themselves to the public over long periods and the Duke was almost unique in that respect. However according to Wikipedia the following is the anomaly in relation to some of the performers:
NAME POSITIONS AND NUMBERS OF TOP 10 APPEARANCES
Doris Day 7,4,1,3,1,1,1,3,8 9 (1952-1966)
Rock Hudson 1,5,1,2,2,2 (1957-1962)
Burt Lancaster 4,10 (1956 & 1962)
Gregory Peck 8 (1948 only)
Chuck Heston Never
Now I admire the box office careers of all of these stars and I especially loved the Doris Day/Rock Hudson joint movies. However your comprehensive work has brilliantly highlighted the fact that there is no way that there could have been the vast contrasts in popularity with film audiences that Quigley suggests; so it’s hard to escape the conclusion that the exhibitors who compiled Quigley in the years concerned were at times exercising their PERSONAL preferences.
4 It does seem that during the Classic Era movies’ overseas earnings were usually lower than domestic ones and that Greta Garbo was apparently unique in the reverse situation. However the overall outcome was still disappointing in comparison with other greats stars of bygone years; and indeed the figures that you have been able to unearth show that Garbo films’ overall worldwide earnings are not even equal to the total domestic grosses of many other major stars of the Golden Years. To illustrate my point I have drawn on a couple of samples from your recently updated pages:
STAR GROSS POSITION IN COGERSON (Figures Rounded)
Greta Garbo 3.7 Bn Worldwide grosses for 20 of her 24 movies.
Marlon Brando 4.3 Bn Domestic grosses only, for just his 16 100 million dollar+ films
William Holden 4.0 Bn Domestic grosses only, for just his 16 highest earning hits.
5 Accordingly as I have suggested previously until you came on the scene most people probably had the delusion, such was Garbo’s great reputation, that she must have been a box office giant in or around around the same league as Crawford, Tracy, Gable and other popular stars of the Golden Era.
6 Once again thanks for taking the trouble to research some of my suggestions and then giving me feedback.
BOB ROY
Hey Bob Roy.
1. Down to her last 5 movies….on my Durbin search….so 16 of her 21 are complete….so only 23.8% to do.
2. I know her last two movies were box office bombs….just trying to figure out how bad…..without a doubt I am in her diminishing returns part of her career….seems things peaked in 1944 for her.
3. Quigley is a fun list to look at….but does not stand up well when you actually look at results. My best argument was when George Clooney (far from a personal favorite) made the Top 10….and his only movie he made was The American…which I do not think even reached $30 million….yet he got a Top 10 spot that year.
4. Wow Doris Day did awesome in those Quigley rankings…. Flora and Steve (two awesome readers and supporters of this page) are probably cringing when they see their favorites Heston and Peck getting no respect from Quigley….Heston had 3 number one movies of the year in the 1950s alone…while Peck is one of the biggest box office draws of all-time..yet only one Quigley appearance between them…just makes no sense.
5. That is interesting about Garbo’s worldwide box office results compared to Brando and Holden’s domestic totals…I think some of that is the “mystique” of her going out all top…..if she had continued to make movies as she aged….the “legendary” status she has would have been eroded. I think the same could be said for James Dean.
6. I really enjoy your comments…and especially enjoy how much you are using the movie stats we have put out there. When we first started doing these tables…..one of our goals was to be the Bill James of movies. Bill James was a stat guy that looked at baseball in an unusual and fun way.
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On the list Shiloh. Thanks for the suggestion.