The box office check-up of 1935 (1936)

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IT’S GOOD SENSE TO PLAY THE FAVORITE! Again this year’s check-up at the Box-Office finds Leo at the front — by a wide margin. This magazine lists all the industry’s Box-Office Champions from 1930 up to June of 1935. Out of a total of 7Q Box-Office Champs listed , M-G-M has 21 and the nearest coTYipctitov has 13. That doesn t even cover the second half of 1935 which included such hits as “China Seas”, “Broadway Melody of 1936”, “Mutiny on the Bounty”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, “A Night at the Opera” and others. "AND THE FUTURE LOOKS VERY M-G-M! For instance: RIFFRAFF with Jean Harlow; WHIPSAW with Myrna Loy; SMALL TOWN GIRL with Janet Gaynor; TARZAN ESCAPES with Johnny Weissmuller; THE GREAT Z1EGFELD with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer; ROSE MARIE with Jeanette MacDonald Eddy; WIFE VS. SECRETARY with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy; ROBIN HOOD OF ELDORADO with Warner Baxter; GORGEOUS HUSSY with Joan Crawford; ROMEO AND JULIET with Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard; THE GOOD EARTH with Paul Muni, Luise Rainer. a 62 THE BOX OFFICE CHECK-UP OF 1935