Darryl Zanuck’s ambitious film about Woodrow Wilson and World War I had a premiere in Omaha, Nebraska, and the theater was packed. The next day, though, there were only a few people in the place. Zanuck, who had attended the premiere of Wilson (1944), was astonished, but one of the local doctors set him straight. ‘Why should they pay seventy-five cents to see Wilson on screen,” he said, “when they wouldn’t pay ten cents to see him alive?”
Source:
Boller, Paul F., and Ronald L. Davis. "Classics and Biopics." Hollywood Anecdotes. New York: Morrow, 1987. 337. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Bob Thomas, Astaire: The Man, the Dancer (N.Y.: St. Martin’s, 1984), pp. 170-71.
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