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The agreement between Rooney and Stiefel ended before Rooney had made a film due to a financial disagreement. Rooney agreed to make three films for Stiefel as a salaried employee. The producer said Rooney owed him $180,000 and he was paying Rooney $100,000 a film; he was to pay it off at $60,000 a film, and thus would only get $40,000 cash. [5]
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1949 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Motor Trend, which debuted in 1949, was the first publication to name a Car of the Year. The inaugural Motor Trend Car of the Year award recognized Cadillac's V8 engine in 1949 (76 years ago) (). [2] The earliest awards were given to the manufacturer or division, not for a specific vehicle.
Car of the Year (COTY) is a common abbreviation for numerous automotive awards. [ citation needed ] The "Car of the Year" phrase is considered to have been introduced by Motor Trend magazine in 1949 when the new publication named Cadillac as Motor Trend Car of the Year .
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Calamity Jane and Sam Bass: George Sherman: Yvonne De Carlo, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart: Western: Universal: Canadian Pacific: Edwin L. Marin: Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, J. Carrol Naish
1949 film festivals (2 P) I. 1949 in Indian cinema (5 P) S. Film series introduced in 1949 (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "1949 in film" This category contains only the ...
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1949 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows ...
Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will recognize the 1956 show as the Motorama featured in the short film Design for Dreaming. No shows were held for the next two years. In 1957, however, Cadillac did display a couple of show cars at various venues. These were the Cadillac Director and the Eldorado Brougham town car of the previous year.