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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Audie Murphy
Fredric March (won 2 best actors)
Joel McCrea
Alice Faye
Betty Grable (the top female box office star of the 40’s)
Tyler Perry
Eric Roberts (the #1 most connected actor on the Oracle of Bacon). Other former #1’s were Harvey Keitel, Dennis Hopper, Rod Steiger and Christopher Lee.
Movies filmed in Cinerama. A number of those travelogue films were among the highest grossing pictures in calendar years (This is Cinerama, Cinerama Holiday, Seven Wonders of the World) culminating in 70mm road show films of the late 60’s & early 70’s . The last 3 road shows were in 1972 I believe, Young Winston, The Great Waltz and Man of La Mancha.
Did you ever notice on the IMDB that they seem to know the box office for a lot of old pictures for Spain (including lots of forgotten horror and western films) but there is no specific website for Spain.
Hey Dan…..I will add all of your suggestions into the list of pages to do. I have seen that IMDb list Spain’s box office admissions. When I am researching box office grosses….I stumble across those many many times…and they offer no help what so ever. I wonder ..like you do….where and who is posting that information?
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Your list is so long that I feel bad asking you to add even more onto it. But I was watching Little Foxes and Doddsworth the other day and I realised that they were directed by William Wyler. He has left such an incredible body of work, Ben Hurr, Best Years of our Lives and Roman Holiday, that he surely is worth a page.
Hey Chris…William Wyler is a great suggestion. I have never really understood why his career rarely gets mentioned when you read about great directors….Ford, Hawks, Hitchcock…always get mentioned….but rarely does Wyler ever get mentioned….his 12 Best Director Oscar nominations are the most ever….I gladly include him on the request list. Thanks again for the suggestion.
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I think I know what you mean. When you think of Hitchcock, you think of suspense, Ford, Westerns. I think Wyler was more an actor’s director. Bearing in mind so many stars won Oscars through his direction. But a great director all the same and definitely worth a page.
Hey Chris….I agree with you 100%….now I just have to find the time to do a Wyler page….I do know that his Best Years of Our Lives and Ben-Hur will be one two in my rankings….as both of the movies are in my Top 10 Ultimate Movie Score …and that is out of 23,000 plus movies. Wyler and David Lean both have two movies in that Top 10.
Hello Bruce. You once suggested that you might do pages for other years such as you’ve done for 1939 and 1946. And I think that’s a great Idea. And you’ve really got me curious about those many films that tied for 42nd place along with 1943’s “The More the Merrier”. And I was wondering if “The Constant Nymph” was one of the films that tied for 42nd Place. The Constant Nymph is one of those films I recently saw for the first time and I’ve never been a fan of Joan Fontaine or of tearjerkers but this film and Joan’s performance really moved me. Charles Coburn was in this one too and he is really good in this one as well. Charles Boyer and Alexis Smith were very good as well. Thanks again Bruce.
Hey Lyle…doing more yearly reviews is going to happen…just not sure when that will finally get done. The Constant Nymph is right above The More the Merrier with 1.9 million in box office rentals according to Variety. It was Warner Brother’s 10th biggest hit of 1943…and the William Schaefer ledgers have it at 1.833 million in domestic rentals and 1.619 in foreign earnings…or 3.452 million rentals in world wide box office rentals.
The ones The More The Merrier tied with are Andy Hardy’s Double Life, Bataan, Lady of Burlesque, In Which We Serve, Flesh and Fantasy, and Arabian Nights.
I have not seen The Constant Nymph but I will add it to my list of movies to watch….thanks for the revisit.
Hello Bruce.
Thanks a lot for the Box Office information on “The More the Merrier”. I wasn’t sure it was on any list available. It is much appreciated. Thank’s again, Bruce.
Hey Lyle….One day I will be doing a movie page that ranks all of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar winners….The More The Merrier will make that list as Charles Coburn won his Oscar for that one. I think Cary Grant was hoping he would win an Oscar when he took over Coburn’s role in the remake Walk Don’t Run. Sadly it did not work out for Cary…..as everybody wanted Grant to get the girl versus Jim Hutton. Not thinking many people were hoping Jean Arthur would end up with Coburn in The More The Merrier. Glad my information was helpful.
Hello Bruce. I checked out your Marx Brothers Page and You Viven Leigh Page and I’m glad you did them because I have never have any box office Information on The Marx Brothers Movies nor the earlier films of Vivien Leigh. I Have been wondering if you could help me out with any box office information on 1943’s “The More the Merrier”. I have read that it was one of Columbia Studios biggest hits and it is one of my favorite films of all time. So I was wondering if it is on one of Variety’s Top Rental Films List. Probably not because I can find no information on the film except the film budget. Please let me know if you have it on one of your lists. I love your website. I have always been a film fanatic. Thanks Bruce.
Hey Lyle….thanks for checking out my Marx Brothers and Vivien Leigh pages. Let’s see…..what I have on The More The Merrier? Variety January 5th 1944….The More The Merrier is listed as Columbia’s 2nd biggest hit of the year with box office rentals of $1.80 million or $3.96 million in box office grosses in 1943 and $107.16 million in 2015 grosses….or about what 300: Rise of an Empire earned last year.
It is tied with many movies for 42nd place in 1943. Bogart’s Sahara was Columbia’s biggest hit in 1943. Hope that helps…..and thanks for the nice words about my website.