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While Miss Day's attorneys prepared her case, and Leo moved into a hotel, Laraine began work on a new picture for RKO. Leo followed her to the set. Between takes, they played gin rummy or held hands. When she was called to the camera, the look between Laraine and Leo stretched like buttered taffy. "I'll be waiting, sweetheart," said Leo, somewhat in the manner of a wife seeing her husband off to jail...
Ingrid Bergman, with four hit movies renting in the U.S. and Canada for a total of $21,750,000, was far & away the year's most profitable star. Bing Crosby, whose three hits rented for $18 million, was a close second. RKO's The Bells of St. Mary's was the big-money movie ($8 million). Others in the "big ten" (which took in from $5,750,000 to $4,400,000): Leave Her to Heaven, Blue Skies, Road to Utopia, Spellbound, The Green Years, Adventure, Easy to Wed, Notorious, Two Years Before the Mast...
...with 13 of the top 60 moneymakers, collected the most rental ($47,250,000). Next in line were Paramount (twelve pictures at $44,650,000), 20th Century-Fox (ten pictures at $35 million), RKO (eight pictures at $30 million...
...Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn; RKO Radio; TIME...
...Wonderful Life (Liberty Films; RKO Radio; TIME...