Gene Autry Articles
GONE WITH THE WIND vs. MELODY RANCH: The Unreliability of Box Office Polls
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind Sandra Bullock: Top Box Office Star Gone with the Wind opened in late December 1939. Boom Town became one of the biggest hits of 1940.Both movies starred Clark Gable, who kept himself quite busy by also starring in Comrade X and Strange Cargo. The biggest box-office star of 1940, according to Quigley's exhibitors' poll? Mickey Rooney. [...]
Katharine Hepburn, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry on 2010 US Postage Stamps
Multiple Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (right), pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and cowboys Gene Autry, William S. Hart, Tom Mix and Roy Rogers will be featured on US postage stamps in 2010. Until early 2000, Katharine Hepburn held the actors' record for most Academy Award nominations: 12. That year, Meryl Streep tied with Hepburn, and in early 2003 surpassed her. Hepburn, however, still holds the [...]