27 thoughts on “Geneviève Bujold Movies”

1. 20 MYRNA LOY WORLDWIDE GROSSES ADJUSTED FOR (1) TICKET INFLATION (2) PURCHASING POWER

   First figure = ticket inflation/Second figure =purchasing power

   The Best Years of Our Lives $927 million/$503 million
   Test Pilot $569 million/$308 million
   The Great Ziegfeld $567 million/$270 million
   Bachelor Knight $416 million/$202 million
   After the Thin Woman $384 million/197 million
   Too Hot to Handle $325 million/$176 million
   Another Thin Woman $288 million/$163 million
   Libeled Lady $330 million/$168 million
   Song of Songs $252 million /$144 million
   Shadow of the Thin Woman $242 million/$135 million
   Show of Shows $226 million/$129 million
   Wife v Secretary $252 million/127 million
   Love Crazy $217 million/$122 million
   The Thin Woman Goes Home $212 million/$116 million
   Parnell $220 million/$115 million
   I Love You Again $ 201 million/$115 million
   Noah’s Ark $206 million/$113 million
   Mr Blandings $213 million/$102 million
   Men in White $166 million/$82 million
   Man-Proof $ 121 million/$65 million

   TOTAL OF THE 20 WW GROSSES ADJUSTED FOR TICKET INFLATION: $6.35 billion
   TOTAL OF THE 20 ADJUSTED FOR PURCHASING POWER: $3.35 billion

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2. Good research….on adjusted is based on ticket sales….never used the purchasing power index to calculate the gross.

   Here are top actresses based on actual domestic ticket sells
   Myrna Loy 1,041,411,885 Loy is the only actress over a billion, 13 actors have over a billion
   Hattie McDaniel 822,430,943
   Barbara Stanwyck 821,579,752
   Olivia de Havilland 821,203,388
   Carrie Fisher 775,987,748
   Dorothy Lamour 765,038,472
   Elizabeth Taylor 750,715,702
   Joan Crawford 742,443,542
   Loretta Young 736,381,548
   Bette Davis 697,137,927
   Lana Turner 696,783,503
   Julia Roberts 540,788,586 She is the 40th best when looking at actresses

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3. The $12 million worldwide is what Miss Loy’s movies would earn if her movies were given saturation releases today at current ticket prices. That’s not going to happen.

   Because cinema ticket prices in the classic era of movies inflated much faster than prices generally in the economy the real purchasing value today of long-ago actual grosses is much less than any figure that would be arrived at by using the hypothetical ticket inflation method. The further back the comparisons go the weaker the purchasing power today of the actual grosses concerned and comparisons became more equal around 1969.

   Accordingly Mis Loy’s actual worldwide grosses have the purchasing power of just $8 billion today and not the $12 billion mentioned. The purchasing power of Miss Julia Roberts’ actual worldwide grosses stands at present at around $9.2 billion. Examples in Part 2 provide a further illustration of the situation.

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   1. 1938 TEST PILOT [Clark Gable/Myrna Loy]
      1/Actual Domestic Gross $9.7 million [Figure Provided by Cogerson]
      2/Cogerson Adjusted Domestic Gross $328.1 million
      3/Purchasing power in 2020 of $9.7 million earned back in 1938 is $176 million

      1990 PRETTY WOMAN [Richard Gere/Julia Roberts]
      1/Actual Domestic Gross $178.4 million [figure provided by Cogerson]
      2/Cogerson Adjusted Domestic Gross $385 million
      3/Purchasing power in 2020 of $178.4 earned back in 1990 is $359 million

      in the 2 examples just quoted in terms of purchasing power today Miss Loy’s actual domestic gross loses approx 48% of the figure that Mr Cogerson has credited her with whereas Miss Robert’s Cogerson figure drops away by only 6.8%. That’s a consistent pattern most of the time to one degree or another throughout comparisons of the purchasing power of classic era stars’ actual grosses with those of more modern performers

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      1. Hey Bob….just updated this page….it is even bigger now. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/tickets-sold-career/

         Loy only sold half a billion more tickets than Roberts.

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         1. HI BIG BOY: Thanks for updating me on ticket sales. Much appreciated. That will enable me in turn to update my own databases. There really must be two of you who can keep churning out new pages; can comment on droves of posts; and can also expend time in trying to prove 2 and 2 make 5.

            It is I think a misnomer to say something like “Myrna Loy sold a billion tickets” as my own perception is that she didn’t. I feel that it would be more accurate to say “Myrna Loy was in 91 films that sold a billion tickets”

            Anyway as I understand it the money men [ie the financial backers of movies] are primarily interested in the purchasing power of their profits and don’t particularly care about precisely how many ticket sales went into generating their wealth.

            Miss Roberts in her heyday was able to open a string of films and Miss Loy never seemed to me to be able to do that on her own. Also Julia has been much more popular than Thins was in the Quigley polls which rightly or wrongly hold considerable sway within the movie industry.

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            1. The actress whom Chaplin sarcastically called “Bank of America’s Sweetheart” Mary Pickford holds the female record for most Quigley Top 10 entries -13; Julia Roberts has 10; and Myrna Loy had 2 entries.

               Thins has depended on the presence of so many Greats both male and female in strings of her movies that a large chunk of her grosses could be what Danny DeVito’s Larry the Liquidator called “Other People’s Money”!

               Also fluctuations in the purchasing power of movie grosses over the decades have been so frequent and diverse that who would be adamant that ANY one thespian had generated the greatest profits for the studios and the backers in real terms? [See Part 3]

               So indeed [who knows?] the financial moguls of the movie industry in recent times may have regarded Julia Roberts as the true “Bank of America’s Sweetheart” –the branches in the state of Virginia excepted of course!

   2. IN the first line of my 4pm post yesterday $12 million should of course read $12 billion. Apologies.

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4. THE FAKE NEWS CORRECTION SERVICE: OUR MOTTO: SPAMMERS LOOK OUT!

   “We try and have as many different UMR links as possible.” – Bruce Cogerson yesterday

   What’s next?:

   Peck left out of To Kill a Mockingbird? Atticus Finch has been voted No 1 Screen Hero of all time by AFI thanks to Greg’s performance.

   Vivien left out of Gone with the Wind? Viewers might be nonplussed as to who is playing Scarlett. Frankly they WOULD give a d**n!

   Asta excluded from Thin Man references? That would show that Mr Cogerson’s bark in his statement above is the same as his bite.

   Wayne not mentioned in connection with The Searchers? Is Mr Cogerson about to “out” himself as not being “a REAL American”

   Stallone excluded from the Rocky and Rambo films? We could just about live with that one – unless he was compensated with a co-star link to Streetcar!

   Brando left out of Desiree? The author of the 1983 book Rating the Movie Stars would turn in his grave!

   BACK – BY PUBLIC DEMAND! – Angela Lansbury as Delilah? In our despair we’d feel like pulling the roof down on our own heads or throwing ourselves to a lion.

   OUR PREDICTION? – DISASTER! New viewers and even existing ones who do not have the knowledge of – or are as familiar with the breadth of this site as – the likes of Miss Breen Robison might not be able to properly collate all the diverse and seemingly conflicting names being credited with large numbers of films.
   misleading his viewers over casting in numerous movies – he should leave the misleading to his great friend Mr Hirschhorn as that’s what HE does best!

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5. Hey Bob. There are 20 UMR links on the Robby Benson table. Burt Reynolds has 2 of those links…one for Rent A Cop and one for Lucky Lady. The End has a trailer page, which gives lots of attention….so I feel comfortable people will know Benson and Reynolds worked together. We try and have as many different UMR links as possible.

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