01-09-2010, 10:39 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
It was actually 800 million tickets.
When Gone with the Wind was released in North America in 1939, it earned an astonishing $198.7-million when the average ticket price was only 23 cents. This translates into a total of more than 800 million admissions at a time when the combined population of the U.S. and Canada was about 145 million!
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/ar...service=mobile
Unless the Globe and Mail is smoking something - actually that might be true because that statement means that almost everyone on the continent watched Gone with the Wind 4 times. |
This is my source:
http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adj...st_yr=1&p=.htm
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