Dear colleagues & Mr Fish, For a few decades there was a periodical entitled "Fame," which ranked US films according to their box office returns. One might question whether Fame's results were in any sense scientific, but perhaps that data was no worse than that available from other publications of the time. I think "Fame" was still in existence in the 1950s, and I'm sure it was being published as far back as the 1930s. For anything precise, one would need to find issues of "Fame" itself... _ ___ __ __ Footnote (apologies if I mentioned this before). After my 2 articles ranking US directors statistically (for "artistic" and "popular" success in the sound era), were published in "Films in Review" (1960 & 1961), I offered to then editor Henry Hart a possible third installment, which Mr Hart turned down. That 3d installment would have statistically ranked US directors for "box office" success, with my stats to be derived from the annual box office numbers that had been published in "Fame." (My first 2 installments were derived from "Nat. Board of Review/Films in Review" and from "Film Daily Yearbook," respectively.) _ __ __ __ ___ Good hunting, Steven P Hill, University of Illinois. <[log in to unmask]> __ __ ___ __ __ ___ __ ___ __ ___ __ __ Date: Fri 22 Dec 00:00:39 CST 2006 From: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 20 Dec 2006 to 21 Dec 2006 (#2006-191) To: [log in to unmask] There is 1 message totalling 27 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. 1950s Box Office Scores Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:39:18 -0800 From: Adam Fish <[log in to unmask]> Subject: 1950s Box Office Scores Friends, A simple question somebody will easily answer: Where can I find the top ten films (in terms of box office income) for each year of the 1950s? Thanks! Yours, Adam Fish UCLA. __ ___ __ __ ___ __) ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org