show me the money

[kuulani]

Who was the first Hollywood star to earn $1 million a picture?

 

[tonksy]

marlon brando.

 

[kuulani]

nope, keep guessing

 

[SexyBoo]

Tom Cruise?

 

[unclehobart]

Elizabeth Taylor was the first woman to do so. I think it was for that horrid Cleopatra flick.

 

[unclehobart]

I get conflicting info from all over. The first male apparently was Claude Rains and the first fem is reputedly to have been Mae West.... which would have been well before Taylor.

 

[kuulani]

Elizabeth Taylor was the first woman to do so. I think it was for that horrid Cleopatra flick.

that's the answer i was looking for ...

 

[unclehobart]

Hmm... Cleopatra was in the 60s, I think... but Claude Rains had his heyday in the 40s... and Mae West even earlier... and both of them supposedly made 1 mil a flick. I guess it must've been a composite of back end residuals totaling 1 mil for the earlier works and Taylor got 1 mil outright up front for her work before any back end change.

 

[Gato_Solo]

before any back end change.

Liz got her butt lifted?

 

[tonksy]

Liz got her butt lifted?

christ, if she gets her butt lifted anymore she is going to have a cleft on the nape of her neck.