4/18/2010

Here's the chart I used for the Top Tens...



The ups and downs and ups of 3 famous careers were tracked on this 1948 LIFE chart

Clark Gable (solid black line)
Bing Crosby (solid red line)
Spencer Tracy (dotted red line)


LIFE observed: The durability of certain box office champions is demonstrated by the fact that only 36 faces appeared in the 100 popularity rankings covering the golden decade before the decline and fall of the studio system.

The statistics for the chart came from the Motion Picture Almanac.


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